Josee St-Onge, an information officer with Alberta Wildfire, said while the province did get some snow in the Rocky Mountains recently, it is not enough, and expects increased danger of fires as the snow melts. Content continues below "We'...
"Because of all the fuel that's in the forest from Fiona," he said. "We're very lucky so far. We did have a little scare down in the eastern part of the province where the firefighters were very fortunate to get that out."
I love spending the winter comparing my temperatures here in Alberta with those of the South Pole (doesn't help that it is their summer, and 24 hours of daylight makes a bit of a difference with warming...). And I'm on another forum where me and a guy from the BC coast like to ...
Fires, both accidental and intended, destroy acres of forest very quickly. Areas affected by logging are more susceptible to fires due to the number of dried, dead trees. Milder winters and extended warm seasons due to global warming also fuel fires. For example, certain species of beetle that...
Once the rocket reaches extremely thin air, at about 120 miles (193 kilometers) up, the rocket's navigational system fires small rockets, just enough to turn the launch vehicle into a horizontal position. The satellite is then released. At that point, rockets are fired again to ensure some...
“The students felt joy inside of them; that they did something that day that mattered,” Thiessen said. Many of the gift recipients seemed “caught off guard” at first, she said, though they were all in when the students explained what the project was about. Some were moved to tears....
TheTenement Museum, in New York City, sits between restoration and abandonment. The detail I remember best is the portrait of FDR on the wall of one of the apartments. It hung there through the Great Depression and for another 50 years after its owners moved out. With too many fires destr...
and in Canada in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, British Columbia. Canada Tel: +1-905-670-8005, Email: Kuno Lischer, President, kuno.lischer@georgfischer.com "New Electric Heat Tapes Help Prevent Fires," US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) #00936 ...
“lightning siege” over the past ten days has resulted in over 13,000 lightning strikes, many of which were from high-based thunderstorms that did not provide much rain to the surface (rain evaporated on the way down!).How unusual was this large number of lightning strikes in mid-August?
And it’s so smoky. Sadly we still have so many forest fires going on here in BC and into Alberta that there’s just- oh, here’s Sarah- that there’s actual ash and smoke in the air. And so my eyes … I can’t even put my contacts in. It’s crazy right now. Thanks for ...