Lizards that can outrun blazes. Birds that lay ash-colored eggs. Wildlife may have a limited ability to evolve in this fiery new era known as the Pyrocene.
We inhabit an increasingly fire- and disease-prone world. As the climate warms, many ecosystems are experiencing hotter temperatures, earlier springs, and dry seasons of unprecedented length and severity, which have inevitably led to a steady global increase in the frequency and extent of wildfires...
根据第一段中的“A new study suggests that smoke from wildfires can change how clouds store water and could lead to less rainfall.The research comes as western parts of the United States are currently experiencing drought conditions after several years of intense wildfire activity.(一项新的研究表明...
The species are "highly associated" with the parts of severe wildfire burns that kill all the trees, Stillman said. As the trees die, woodboring beetles colonize them, providing ample food for black-backed woodpeckers and creating cavities in trees for other species of nesting birds, such as ...
Canada is experiencing one of its worst wildfire seasons on record, with close to 11 million hectares, or about 27 million acres, of land already burned since the beginning of the year,accordingto the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. Wildfires are burning from coast to coast, and more...
It's the latest of the escalating natural disasters that trail in the wake of our growing climate crisis, including the now-expected wildfire seasons of America's West Coast and the abysmal air quality realities in countries around the world. According to World Health Organization (WHO) data fr...
Anything from stray fireworks to lightning strikes can start a wildfire. While it’s natural for many ecosystems to see some level of fire activity, the hotter, drier conditions brought on by climate change are fueling longer fire seasons with larger fires that burn more land. This means that...
The wreckage of a 2022 tornado in Saint-Adolphe-D’Howard, Que. (Google Earth) Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia all experienced severe wildfire seasons last year. The NTP is looking at how forest fires affect thunderstorm intensity and frequency. ...
The Forest Service runs the largest fire program in the country, with 11,000 wildland firefighters—one-third of which are laid off at the end of every season. While the federal government now understands that “wildfire is an essential part of the ecosystem”, the century they spent suppressi...
Brown said that increased development in areas now prone to more severe fires means further destruction is almost an inevitability. "People are coming to realize that many of these places have a mind of their own," she said. "When we try to manipulate natural processes to the extent that we...