Fuel is a major factor in determining a fire's intensity. Photo courtesy Bureau of Land Management Wildfires spread based on the type and quantity of fuel that surrounds it. Fuel can include everything from trees, underbrush and dry grassy fields to homes. The amount of flammable...
This is one of the main culprits behind wildfires, and causes the most area burned of any type of wildfire. Dry climates create dry thunderstorms, and then lightning from these thunderstorms ignite the forest. Lightning comes in two varieties–cold and hot. Cold lightning has intense electric c...
Parks Canada has faced questions about whether it properly managed the swaths of dead forest that had been infested in recent years by mountain pine beetle, a wood-boring insect. Article content The pine beetle infestation, which peaked in 2019 before a major cold snap helped wipe out most of...
It's also important to understand that even small changes in climate can have major effects. When scientists talk about "the Ice Age," you probably envision the world frozen, covered with snow and suffering from frigid temperatures. In fact, during the last ice age (ice ages recur roughly e...
Hanna said Canada needs to have a bigger conversation about prevention and managing risk by reducing the vulnerability of infrastructure, and suggests wildfire vulnerability assessments and considerations become "part of everything we do in the permitting ...
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Wara said a major question he has is about utility decisions — by Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power — to either cut power to lines amid the high winds or to leave them electrified. Climate & Environment ...
a. How do animals deal with extreme seasonal changes? b. Describe the seasonal variations in deserts versus tropical rainforests. What are the general differences in climate associated with the midlatitude deciduous forest and boreal forest biomes? Explain how the three major types of forests dif...
average temperature is gradually rising, most of the iceberg has begun to melt. If this goes on again, then the world will be flooded. The current global average temperature has risen 1.1 ℃ than before, do not look just a small 1.1 ℃, but this is the "global average temperature" ah!
Whenever I talk about the waters, the oceans, it reminds me how polluted our oceans are. Plastic is a major pollutant. Fish eat plastic, and we eat fish. This leads to disease. We're still dumping factory wastewater directly into our rivers and oceans. The wastewater should be de-aluminiz...