Maine firefighters to assist Canada as wildfires spread ; More than 500,000 acres have burned this spring, and heavy smoke is now wafting into northern Maine.From staff reports
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In western Canada, wildfires are a natural and common part of the forest ecosystem . They remove debris and undergrowth from the forest floor, open up the forest canopy to sunlight, kill insects and diseases that harm trees and add valuable nutrients to the ground...
Although residents of the western U.S. have lived with smoky summers for decades, the fallout from wildfires is becoming a nationwide issue. Smoke from blazes ineastern Canadabarreled into the densely populated Northeast and Midwest last June, making the skies above Toronto, New York, Chicago, a...
This theory is called embodied cognition(体验认知),and it suggests that what goes on in our minds stems from(起源于)our actions and interactions with the world around us. It means that encouraging children to think and learn in a purely abstract way might actually make lessons harder for them...
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Schmidt said the guard is seeded with a short grass and other plants with lower flammability. He said it's part of the hazard-reduction burning every spring in High Level, and the municipality maintains the grass height. W...
A hazy Manhattan skyline last July, when New York City and parts of New Jersey were under an air quality alert due to wildfires burning in Canada.Getty Many of the effects of climate change play out at a very large scale: Heatwaves that grip entire continents. Flooding that submerges vast...
Luckily for Bermuda and the world at large, there is a way to dispose of an old vehicle while still helping the environment; recycle the car. While the concept has been around for a while, there still seems to be a large number of the population who don’t know that they can recycle...
(FSC) is generally considered the most rigorous—though environmentalistscautionthat it could be improved to better take into account the climate change impacts of logging. With the threat of catastrophic wildfires increasing across the Western United States and Canada, this aspect must be carefully ...