阅读填空The State-Of-The-Art-Tech Behind Fighting Fires How are today's firefighters dealing with massive wildfires? They're doing it by using the most advanced technology. Whether it's with a modified jumbo jet o
As much as we might fear earthquakes, tsunamis, wildfires and killer storms, in reality only a few natural events pack the power to knock global civilization on its heels. One is a planet-killing meteor. Care to guess the other? Here's a hint: 74,000 years ago, Krakatau's neighboring ...
As much as we might fear earthquakes, tsunamis, wildfires and killer storms, in reality only a few natural events pack the power to knock global civilization on its heels. One is a planet-killing meteor. Care to guess the other? Here's a hint: 74,000 years ago, Krakatau's neighboring ...
Besides cyberattacks, outages can also occur from other sources, such as technology failures and natural disasters. Utility companies are even starting to preemptively cut power to prevent wildfires in areas that are expected to face severe weather conditions, which can disrupt operations, ...
Fire strongly affects animals’ behavior, population dynamics, and environmental surroundings, which in turn are likely to affect their immune systems and exposure to pathogens. However, little work has yet been conducted on the effects of wildfires on w
Open the newspaper, turn on the TV, or go online, and you’ll find alarming headlines about raging wildfires, devastating storms, and severe droughts. Climate change is staring us in the face, and the evidence is everywhere. What's harder to see, unless you know where to look, is growin...
Not only are fires happening more often with more consequences, but in yet another example of how climate change makes everything unpredictable,fire managers are reporting odd behaviorfrom wildfires that make them harder to manage — for example, it’s getting harder to predict where and when a...
Though it may seem earthquakes are happening more frequently, we have only exceeded thelong-term average of 16 major earthquakesannually roughly a dozen times in the last 50 years. There is still much to learn about earthquakes and, rather than focus on predicting them, the US Geologica...
Considering that the studied wildfires span over 20 years, for each study we applied the necessary inflation rate factor to obtain the comparable economic values for the year 2022. The inflation factor for each year was obtained from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (2022; https://www.bls....
Here’s a closer look at what’s happening and some suggested precautions for dealing with the haze: WHAT’S HAPPENING? Smoke from Canada’s wildfires has been moving into the United States since last month.The most recent fires near Quebechave been burning for at least several...