The Lahaina Banyan Tree is an Indian banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis)that is 60 feet talland over150 years old. It grows in Lahaina Banyan Court Park which is also known as Lahaina Courthouse Square. The tree survived the wildfires that swept through Maui in August 2023. It was planted by...
Woodbury is also the provincial liaison for FireSmart Canada, which works on wildfire education and prevention. He said research that came after wildfires in Alberta examining which houses survived and which were destroyed has provided valuable lessons. The...
The burned trees in Waterton Lakes National Park, Oct. 6, 2021, in Waterton, Alberta, Canada. Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images, FILE If fire suppression remains unchanged, wildfires in boreal North America are projected to release up to 11.93 gigatons of carbon dioxide by mid-century -...
Withever-increasing and extremeweather events such asheat,wildfires,hurricanes, to name a few, it makes winter that much more important for our wildlife. However,Canada experienced its warmest winter on recordin 2023-24. If we get more winters like the sea...
“Studies provide evidence that climate change has contributed to the expanded range of ticks, increasing the potential risk of Lyme disease, such as in areas of Canada where the ticks were previously unable to survive,” the U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA)reports. ...
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In a power outage, you need to get these three dangers under control. Your fish will die if you don’t. But what about light? Light is perhaps the least important thing you need to worry about. Your fish can survive a few days with just the light that your room provides. ...
How do forest invertebrates respond to different types of disturbance events (e.g., catastrophic wildfires versus Indigenous cultural burning practices) and what are the underlying mechanisms behind these responses (Erenler et al. 2020; Filazzola et al. 2021)? iv. What are the metapopulation and...
As in “when the SHTF,” you need to learn how to survive. What is Emergency Prepping? That’s a good question and an even better place to start. An emergency is any event that overwhelms your current ability to manage it. This may be as big as a nuclear war or as small as a ...
Thank you, Cynthia. I need my positive energy because the Canadian wildfires have now started in Quebec and I have relatives living there. When the world seems to be falling apart, we truly need all the positive energy we can get.