Climate change isn’t just one thing: rising temperatures, or sea level rise. It’s also changes to rainfall, increased risk of wildfires, more powerful hurricanes. The extent to which any of these are threats depends on where you live: North Dakota doesn’t have much to worry about rising...
NASA Earth Observatory has had several stories on the western U.S. wildfires, gatheredhere.This storysummarizes the situation; satellite images of the smoke generated by the fires can be seenhere,hereandhere. In today's Sunday edition of@washingtonpostpic.twitter.com/qHosujRKrG ...
Large wildfires are an increasingly frequent phenomenon around the globe (Tedim et al.2018; Linley et al.2022). The 2017 and 2022 wildfire seasons are examples of this trend (Nature,2017; Rodrigues et al.2023). In 2017, a total of 622,000 ha burned in Chile, Russia, the USA, Canada,...
and human health. The causes of natural hazards may be geological (e.g., earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, volcanic eruptions, etc.) and climatic (e.g., floods, windstorms, droughts, and wildfires)1. Many parts of the world are at risk from one or more natural hazards, and although ...
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President Trump called the wildfires "devastating" and "the likes of which we've never seen before" at the White House on Tuesday. "We mourn the lives of those lost, and we pray for the victims, and there are more victims than anybody would ever even think possible," Mr. Trump...
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Two maps: John Nelson’s100 Years of Wildfireis a static map showing a century of California wildfires, simplified into zones of 100 square miles. The map measures the cumulative burn area for each zone over that entire time: this can exceed 100 or even 200 percent if large fires are frequ...
Multiple studies have used fire simulations to evaluate the behavior of the territory, validate spread models, and establish intervention zones in areas that have been traditionally affected by wildfires, such as ref. [71] in Catalonia, [72] in Valencia, and [73] in California. The methodology...
The FAO PM distribution reflects the same general pattern as in 2016 and 2017, with the green zone trending from the north-central to the southwestern part; however, with the zones of lower values merely declined. Moreover, even if FAO PM has a central green zone, the fact that its ...