We surveyed vegetation and fecal pellets of snowshoe hares in nine 13-year-old wildfires, specifically, three fires in three size categories鈥攕mall (80 to 200 ha), medium (1000 to 5000 ha), and large (>10 000 ha)鈥攁nd in mature forests in southern British Columbia, Canada. Results ...
Scientists are most worried about old-growth forests in fire areas, which are home to the Canada lynx, the marten, fishers, caribou and northern goshawk, she said. “Then I start getting worried about most of the predators, because they need those big ranges to obtain enoug...
CanadaSmoke from wildfires contains many air pollutants of concern and epidemiological studies have identified associations between exposure to wildfire smoke PM2.5 and mortality and respiratory morbidity, and a possible association with cardiovascular morbidity. For this study, a retrospective analysis of ...
“The impacts on wildlife of the large-scale, intense wildfires that have been occurring throughout the west in recent years are not well understood.” Hodges said smaller animals such as voles and mice may find it harder to escape wildfires compared with larger mammals such a...
This has been an unprecedented season of wildfires in Canada. This isn’t my first blog on the topic and sadly, it won’t be my last. As I write this one, great swaths of the North West Territories and British Columbia are being evacuated due to out-of-control fires. ...
Anthropogenic climate change is expected to catalyze forest conversion to grass and shrublands due to more extreme fire behavior and hotter and drier post-fire conditions. However, field surveys in the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States show r
There are examples of weather changes in California with wildfires where there has been contamination of the air with chemicals that cause cancer. So, there’s direct possible Interruption of the normal processes, the processes that we depend upon for the diagnosis and care of cancer. Priya ...
may face a repeat of the devastating wildfires experienced in 2023. "We really need to see very strong, aggressive, proactive drought planning from the province. All of these regions where water stress is likely to occur should have water sustainability plans in place," he...
Observed characteristics of the 2021 heatwave in Western North America Fig. 1: The characteristics of the heatwave of summer 2021 over the Western North America (WNA, 40°−65°N, 125°−105°W). Full size image We extend the analysis to the last millennial climate simulation (see Methods...
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