MUST SEE:From fires to floods: Canada's 2023 was a fury of record-breaking weather Apart from the sheer number and size of fires in 2023, firefighters are dealing with increasingly severe fire behaviour like the
More recently, Alberta has announced fire restrictions in much of the public land around the province that prohibit, for example, backcountry campfires. Article content Read More Canada's 2024 wildfire season expected to be even worse than last year's Canada's 'zombie fires' continue to burn...
There is growing evidence that exposure to wildfire smoke over the course of a year or more is linked topremature mortality, withone studyestimating that long-term exposure causes 570 to 2,500 early deaths per year in Canada. Wildfire ...
Thehuman costof global warming is hard to quantify. Thousands of lives per year could be lost as the elderly or ill suffer fromheat strokeand other heat-related trauma. Poor and underdeveloped nations would suffer the worst effects, since they would not have the financial resources to deal wit...
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How bad are forest fires today? As wildfires become more common in many regions, the occurrence of extreme wildfires – in terms of their size, duration, intensity and impacts – is also on the rise, the OECD researchers said. Wildfire severity, which considers the ecosystem impacts caused b...
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According to the United Nations (UN), forests cover 31% of the world’s land surface. They absorb roughly15.6 billiontonnes ofcarbon dioxide (CO₂)every year. More than half of this green cover is spread across the boreal forests of Russia and Canada, the Amazon in South America, and ...
She notes one important thing: An astronaut's day is planned well in advance by many people on the ground. "Well we have a scheduling program on board that has in it all of the details that we need to know in order to do the day's work. It tells us when we should go to sleep...
1) the most destructive wildfires each year defined by damaged structures, and fatalities, in addition to land coverage, and 2) wildfires occurring in wildland urban interface (WUI) areas, which is the zone of transition between unoccupied land and human development, resulting in 29 fires (Table...