While we often look at wildfires as being destructive, many wildfires are actually beneficial. Some wildfires burn the underbrush of a forest, which can prevent a larger fire that might result if the brush were allowed to accumulate for a long time. Wildfires can also benefit plant growth by...
Almost 85% ofwildfires in the United Statesare caused by humans, according to theNational Park Service. Fires that are sparked this way can result accidentally from leaving campfires unattended, burning debris, using various kinds of equipment and discarding cigarettes improperly. Intentional acts of ...
Although we're used to eatingfoodon a regular basis, storing lots of food in a fallout shelter isn't the biggest concern. Humans can survive quite easily for two weeks without much food, but it'swaterthat's important if people are going to stay underground for long periods of time. FEMA...
Some things are easier to attribute to climate change. For example, in Alberta, climate change is poised to make the province drier and hotter. This means there’s more dead plant matter to act as fuel, potentially causing more wildfires. While many of the wildfires ...
There exists some literature on wildfires and wildlife disease, much of which we have cited above. However, many of the links that we hypothesize remain uninvestigated and unevidenced; addressing these gaps will require a range of empirical systems merging fire and disease studies, which can be ...
Preemptive measures are important to ensure that wildfires don’t get out of control. Many local fire safety norms allow natural fires to burn out in order to maintain the ecological order. Given that most fires are caused by human involvement, it, therefore, becomes imperative to control human...
These include droughts, floods, windstorms, strong tropical winds and wildfires. Ihough extreme events will continue, he believes that extreme events become disasters only when people fail to prepare for them. "Many of the remedies are well-known. From an early-warning perspeetive, make sure ...
Cities have already been affected by such events with increasing regularity in the past few years, with experts previously saying the spate of wildfires that have dogged California are the “new normal.” Meanwhile, cities like Houston have been battered by hurricanes and have spent over a year ...
With the effects of climate change increasingly apparent – from melting glaciers and record heat waves to floods and wildfires – many young people today are concerned about climate change. A 2021surveyof 10,000 young people ages 16-25 in 10 countries found that 84% were at least moderately ...
As much as we might fear earthquakes, tsunamis, wildfires and killer storms, in reality only a few natural events pack the power to knock global civilization on its heels. One is a planet-killing meteor. Care to guess the other? Here's a hint: 74,000 years ago, Krakatau's neighboring ...