Thursday night, Gov. Abbott granted temporary waivers to state regulations to assist in wildfire response. Feb 29, 2024 Map and satellite images show where fires are burning in Texas and Oklahoma A map shows the Texas fires located throughout the Lone Star State's rural Panhandle area with som...
For thousands of years, North American tribes carefully burned forests to manage the land. The future may lie in a return to that past.
which helps reduce the greenhouse gasses that are fueling climate change. This type of forest structure also provides better habitat for some wildlife, such as the near-threatened California spotted owl, which likes to nest in areas with high canopy cover and ...
Using the map module to display similar information can allow users to visualize behavior in a graphical format and see how responses track in relation to the spatial distribution of smoke and air quality impacts. Finally, the ability to view your own data and how you respond to various ...
in California is barely noticed in the Sunshine State. And ranchers in Kansas set fire to more than 3,000 mi² (8,000 km²) annually to improve grazing. Yet it tookSequoia National Parkmore than a decade to gain approval and the right conditions for a 1.6 mi² (4 km²) ...
Elsa is based in California, and she started working with WCK during wildfires. Since then, she’s travelled all over the world with them. This September, she led the feeding operations for the California wildfires. WCK covers the costs of all their food and non-food supplies by using ...
California is burning and smoke has covered the northern half of the state and is spreading across the U.S. Most of the fires were started by a huge “lightning siege” that started on August 15th. How unusual was this massive lightning event? That question will be answered below. ...
“And in terms of mental health, I could find almost nothing.” Hertz-Picciotto secured over $300,000 in grant money, which helped fund several new studies, including one known as WHAT NOW, a bit of a tortured backronym for Wildfires and Health: Assessing the Toll in Northwest California....
Research has found that heat waves are now larger, getting more intense and lasting longer than decades ago. Specifically in California, extreme heat waves — like the ones of recent weeks — are now 3 to 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer due to climate change. By 2080, that same study finds ...
destroyed this decade in California fires alone. In 2018, the worst wildfire season on record saw major blazes like the Carr Fire and the Mendocino Complex Fire destroy millions of acres in August; a few months later, the Camp Fire killed at least 86 people anderased the entire town of ...