In the last two years, Canada has seen a greater number of wildfires than average, says Norm Catto, a retired Memorial University geography professor. Catto says forest fires are caused by either humans or lightning. In Labrador, lightning event...
Fighting wildfires has always been a physically demanding job, but attention is increasingly being paid in Canada to its psychological toll. Wildland firefighters and professionals who work with them say the job has become mentally tougher as fires have become larg...
First, China and Europe should deepen cooperation in green development in the face of increasing extreme weather events. Devastating forest fires in Canada, the US, Greece and Spain, the melting of ice in Antarctica, and severe floods and typhoons in many countries are some of the examples of ...
Fires simulated under the Progressive suppression scenario had the lowest sensitivity to increasing fuel aridity and fuel loading of any suppression strategy, including no suppression. Yearly burned area doubled every 44 years across the simulated increases in fuel aridity, and only every 133 years ...
Their ranks can be stretched thin during the summer wildfire season, but officials can free them up during the winter to fight fires elsewhere. It is summer in Australia, where the wildfires have been raging since September, fueled by drought and the country’s hottest and driest year on ...
and caused billions of dollars in damage. Next, we’re joined by photojournalist Andria Hautamaki, who observed a “prescribed burn” in Plumas County, California. Andria shares how these kinds of carefully planned, intentionally set fires can be a useful tool for preventing more destructive ...
First, China and Europe should deepen cooperation in green development in the face of increasing extreme weather events. Devastating forest fires in Canada, the US, Greece and Spain, the melting of ice in Antarctica, and severe floods and typhoons in many countries are some of the examples of...
Severe fires reach the tree tops and consume the forest canopy. The amount of timber-producing forest burning each year in severe wildfires has increased significantly in the past decade. The western United States, Canada, Siberia, Brazil and Australia have been most affected.David Lindenmayer...
–From NOAA comes a viewer for their Satellite Services Division (SSD) Fire Detection Program, showing fire and smoke data for the US, Central America, and southern Canada: The default coverage (“Analyzed Fires from Satellites”) is shown above, but additional data for Central and South Americ...
The abnormally hot temperatures Canada experienced in 2023 are projected to be common by the 2050s, the study said. This is likely to lead to severe fires across the 347 million hectares (857 million acres) of woodlands that Canada depends on to store carb...