The first recorded use of the name “America” was in 1507 when it appeared on a map produced by a German cartographer who wanted to honour an Italian explorer by the name of Amerigo Vespucci. Looking back at the figures from 2020 on the IQAir website the US obtained an overall ranking...
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While dense wildfire smoke can appear apocalyptic, not all pollution is visible. Use the IQAir Irvine air pollution heat map to find active fires, identify wind patterns, and learn how local air quality is affected in real time. Follow live air quality in Irvine to stay up to date even wh...
Many of those days occurred because of the particularly bad wildfire season in California. Ozone is always at a higher level during the summer months due to the higher temperatures, pollutants, wildfires and hot temperatures. According to the Department of Air Quality, there has been a decrease ...
Climatic conditions exert an important influence on wildfire activity in the western United States; however, Indigenous farming activity may have also shaped the local fire regimes for millennia. The Fish Lake Plateau is located on the Great Basin–Colorado Plateau boundary, the only region in wester...
In October 1947, Maine experienced the worst fire disaster in its history. Climaxing months of drought, fires raged across more than 200,000 acres. Nine communities were practically leveled and four others severely damaged. Fifteen people lost their lives. Wildfire Loose describes how the fires st...
We also mapped the spatial distribution of permits contributing to degraded air quality over the four-month period for the four landowning classes (Figure 3, Figure 4, Figure 5 and Figure 6). The base map shows the percentage African American population at the census-tract level. This context...
For example, wildfire suppression and exclusion via road and rail construction and domestic livestock grazing have even altered the structure and processes of wilderness and roadless areas. In the U.S. Inland Northwest, these influences occurred in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Today, few ...
it. It’s pretty wild to see. Unfortunately, inversions trap pollution and summer wildfire smoke in the valley, making the air less than ideal to breathe. It’s not uncommon to see high school sports practices and events canceled or moved inside due to poor air quality during an inversion....