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, ...
Wildfire is one of the most important natural disturbances in forest and multi-vegetation ecosystems, directly or indirectly affecting the structural proce
At the time of Alaska's Taylor Complex fire, in 2004, it was thelargest wildfire on recordin the U.S. since 1997. Burning more than 1.3 million acres in eastern Alaska near the Canada border, the complex left both sides of the Taylor Highway ablaze and threatened the gold rush town-tu...
Wildfires have always been present in our world affecting humans for decades. They have displaced thousands, costed billions of dollars, and destroyed millions of acres throughout their history. But, as society keeps advancing into the future, so do wildfires as their numbers continue to increase....
For thousands of years, North American tribes carefully burned forests to manage the land. The future may lie in a return to that past.
Canada, Australia, and the US have had a century of aggressive fire suppression that has resulted in areas of carbon build up that is multiples of the norm for these historic fire regimes. Not only are the fires significantly larger now, because of the higher fuel density, the intensity now...
“lightning siege” over the past ten days has resulted in over 13,000 lightning strikes, many of which were from high-based thunderstorms that did not provide much rain to the surface (rain evaporated on the way down!).How unusual was this large number of lightning strikes in mid-August?
Wildfires, producing lots of smoke seen obviously from space, are spreading in Sibetia.Greenland, Alaska, and Canada as a result of lightning and high temperatures. Although Arctic fires are common between May and October, the long time and large rang-involved make these fires unusual.Unfortunate...
Over 5000 fires have been recorded in Canada as of 2 August 2023 [10], with millions spent due to the fire. As these catastrophic events become more frequent and severe, researchers and mental health professionals are exploring the intricate relationship between anxiety and wildfires [4,11,12]...
Although we observed an increasing trend in the US in the last 40 years (which was also observed by Nunes [28] in Portugal for the last 30 years), this trend cannot be detected either in Canada, the Mediterranean countries, or Greece. Therefore, a systematic trend is not obvious. Fires ...