The 2024 wildfire seasonstarted early, with firescurrently burningacross much of western Canada. Ongoing wildfires near Jasper, Alta.have prompted widespread evacuationand blanketed the province in smoke, triggeringair quality advisorie...
"Most fires in the boreal forest of northern Canada are started by lightning. A one-degree Celsius increase in temperature amounts to about 12% more lightning. So the warmer it gets as the climate heats up, the more triggers there are for fires to burn," said Struzik. In Quebec, for ...
The BC Wildfire Service said on Wednesday that they have been rapidly deployed this week to cover a surge of newly discovered fires. There are only two parattack bases in Canada and both are in B.C.’s Prince George Fire Centre, one in Mackenzie and the other in Fort St....
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The BC Wildfire Service said on Wednesday that they have been rapidly deployed this week to cover a surge of newly discovered fires. There are only two parattack bases in Canada and both are in B.C.’s Prince George Fire Centre, one in Mackenzie and the other in For...
The impacts of these blazes can increasingly be felt hundreds of miles away. Here are some ways to protect yourself from dangerous smoke.
In January, the Biden administration announced a $50 billion plan to help stave off megafires in the West, with projects such as controlled fires and logging to reduce trees and other vegetation that serves as fuel in areas that have become hot spots due to a decadeslong megadrought. The Win...
joined forces with Canada, Japan and the European Space Agency (a program then co-managed by the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden and West Germany) to make this station a reality [source: NASA]. The list of participating ...
In the waning days of World War II, the Japanese military strapped bombs to the bottom of weather balloons and sent them floating toward Canada and the United States. The Japanese figured the balloons would kick off a wave of forest fires and deadly explosions, slowing the American advance acr...
The variation between the two readings is known as magnetic declination (or compass variation), which can change as you move across the globe [sources: Government of Canada, USGS ]. The agonic line is an imaginary line where true north and magnetic north are in perfect alignment — there is...