"Canada's hottest summer in 76 years fuelled the country's most destructive wildfire season on record in 2023, when almost seven times more land than the annual average was burnt," reads the report. "The fires' scale and impacts highlighted the nee...
Already this year, millions of hectares have been torched by more than 2,200 wildfires in Canada. In the midst of another unprecedented fire season, it is easy to see fire as a destructive force to be controlled at all costs. Through more than 100 years ...
Global climate change below 2 °C avoids large end century increases in burned area in Canada Article Open access 01 October 2024 Introduction Wildfires are becoming more destructive and deadly around the world1,2,3,4. The societal and ecological impacts of fires5,6 are in our collective ...
Risk prevention and reduction programsOver the last decades, the different issues regarding the expansion of the wildland-urban interface (WUI) - particularly those related to fires - have spread around the world with particular exposure in the USA, Canada, Australia, and, more recently, in ...
Indigenous Peoples, ecologists and conservationists have long recognized the importance of fire within grassland ecosystems, but decades of active suppression have left most of Canada in a fire deficit.
the countries with the highest number of publications are concentrated in North America (US, 3111; Canada, 888), Europe (Spain, 685; UK, 287; Portugal, 280, etc.), and Australia (612), in which the USA being the most central to this area of research in terms of collaborative networks...
Wildfires have forced an evacuation of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories. Officials with the territorial government told residents in the highest-risk areas to evacuate immediately. Other residents have until 12 p.m. local time on Friday to leave the … How Climate Change...
Many large and persistent fires burned from the first week of May in western Canada (where it was unusually warm and dry) until the end of September. This led to worsening air quality in eastern Canada and the north-eastern United States, particularly in New York City (in early Ju...
Global climate change below 2 °C avoids large end century increases in burned area in Canada Article Open access 01 October 2024 Human and infrastructure exposure to large wildfires in the United States Article 03 July 2023 Assessing costs of Indonesian fires and the benefits of restoring...
Note: BFF, Bolivia Forest Fires; RBF, Richard- son Backcountry Fire, Canada; FNT, Fires in Northwest Territories, Canada; WR, Wildfires of Russia; BCW, British Columbia Wildfires, Canada; CW, California Wildfires, USA; SW, Sweden Wildfires; BCW, British Columbia Wildfires, Canada; AW, ...