Kurd, 26, applied to be a wildfire fighter in Alberta. Now, he's among more than 500 people who have been trained by Alberta Wildfire for the season, which isalready underway in the province. Alberta Wildfire oversees wildfire management ...
The results from the study raise important questions about public health and environmental policy, especially as climate change intensifies wildfire seasons. According to a study from researchers at the University of Tasmania, extreme wildfire events have more than doubled in frequency and magnitu...
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...
Tree hollows are among the most important habitat resources for many vertebrate species inhabiting forests (Gibbons and Lindenmayer2002; Mazurek and Zielinski2004). Hollows are needed for the denning and nesting of many arboreal species (Bennett et al.1994; Gibbons et al.2002; Koch et al.2008a)...
While many of the wildfires across the country are human-caused, climate change may also increase the severity of storms, meaning there could be more lightning to start fires. A satellite captures wildfire smoke on May 16, 2023. (NASA EarthData)...
It's the latest of the escalating natural disasters that trail in the wake of our growingclimate crisis, including the now-expected wildfire seasons of America's West Coast and the abysmal air quality realities incountries around the world. According toWorld Health Organization (WHO) data from ...
For this study, we compared seven prescribed burns conducted in the dormant and early growing seasons in the southern Appalachians to evaluate season of burn effects on fire behavior and fuel consumption. In situ, representative ex situ, and digital elevation model (DEM)-derived data were used ...
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...
Many epidemiology studies have investigated the health effects of PM in Europe and North America and focussed on traffic derived PM. However, elevated levels of PM are a global problem and the impacts of other sources of PM on health should be assessed. Biomass burning can increase PM levels ...
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