On Saturday, the president blamed the fires on "poor" forest management in the state,saying on Twitterthat there was "no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor." The causes for the state's biggest fires were un...
Firefighters battled Thursday to control a series of major fires in the Los Angeles area that have killed seven people, burned at least 10,000 structures from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena and sent thousands of people frantically fleeing their ho...
Long after the flames have gone out, the effects oflarge, climate-fuelled wildfiresendure in Canada's boreal forest, making the ground warmer than normal more than a decade later, a study shows. The new research, published today in the journal Nature, looked at the...
Then, “May came in like a lion,” MacDonald said of the record-shattering heat wave that helped spur early-season wildfires in northeastern parts of the province. Article content Article content Matt Loney, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, said it was either the firs...
And according to the New York Post, it's due to wildfires in Canada. The Post explains that more than 2 million acres (or 3,125 square miles) in the Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan areas of Canada have been torched by the fires forcing "tens of thousands of people"...
while also seeing an increase in total burned area and percentage burned at high severity. the confluence of these three trends is particularly pervasive in eastern siberia, and the western us and canada. what turns a fire into a catastrophe nonetheless, many other regions are also susceptible to...
The world feels like it’s being set alight. Wildfires in Canada and Europe, floods in China, and a never-ending stream of record-breaking heat waves have constantly dominated newspaper headlines. The feeling that time is quickly running out is very real. But that feeling is a barrier to ...
For thousands of years, North American tribes carefully burned forests to manage the land. The future may lie in a return to that past.
Lighting strikes are ranked 2nd in leading causes of starting wildfires Additional reasons that contribute to wildfires include: Lighting strikes have sparked multiple wildfires Lack of Firefighters and National Park employees to monitor forest areas ...
Canada experienced a record-breaking fire season in 2017 when 1.2 million hectares were burnt in British Columbia and scientists say that climate change increased the area burnt by a factor of 7-11. Each year, the total expenditure for nationa...