We found that simulation of one restoration wildfire per year in addition to high-risk wildfires in the regular fire season and over the course of 50 yr resulted in a 23% increase in total area burned, but the same probability of fire-on-fire interactions. This translated into 0.3% of ...
Forest wildfires are a common natural disaster, occurring almost hourly in different forests around the globe, and are the major disturbances to forest ecosystems (Phillips et al. 2022). In the USA, from 2012 to 2021, an average of 7.4 million acres of land per year affected by about 61,...
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For thousands of years, North American tribes carefully burned forests to manage the land. The future may lie in a return to that past.
addition to CO column-average VMR and AOD, MOPITT surface layer CO is also investigated in order to identify potential air quality impacts for humans. The average Northern Hemisphere background trend in atmospheric CO was removed (−0.57% per year23), prior to calculating the CO seasonal ...
They put together their own thank-you in a YouTube video.“You guys don’t know how much you mean, all the support you guys give us, ’’ says Ron, a firefighter from Oregon, in the video. “Out of four years when I’ve been fighting fire, this is about the most hospitable(...
(Fig. S2; Ruefenacht et al.2008; Campbell et al.2007), Though southern Oregon is typically drier than northwest Oregon, 30-year normal precipitation values for the two locations are quite similar, including estimates for annual, January, and July data. In fact, January precipitation is lower...
It’s in the public interest to prevent wildfires that will end up producing greenhouse-gas emissions, not to mention endangering human lives. But who’s going to pay for that? Each of PanoAI’s stations costs something like $50,000 per year. The company’s customers include utilities, ...
Oregon, California and Washington state have all been heavily affected by what is already a record-breaking year, even before what is regarded as “peak” fire season in the region. Residents in the San Francisco Bay Area awoke to a second day of eerie skies created by smoke and ash mixing...
Firefighters were still battling about 30 fires in Oregan and Washington, where parts of the state are still smouldering after a blaze more than a week ago.© AP “The terrifying pictures from California, Oregon, and Washington make it clear: the#ClimateCrisisis an existential threat to our...