"The fingerprints of climate change are all over what we're seeing right now in California, Oregon and Washington," added Rachel Cleetus, policy director for the climate and energy program at The Union of Concerned Scientists. "This is a moment that should be a super sobering alarm and w...
"The wildfire situation in California and Oregon has now escalated to the point that I can no longer keep track of the countless massive, fast-moving, and potentially very dangerous fires," Swain wrote. "The geographic scale and intensity of what is transpiring is truly jarring." ...
COregon firefighters putting out wildfires across the state have a new "force" on theirteam: aplush(绒毛)Baby Yoda doll. It has become a symbol of hope and joyamong the firefighters. They have been tirelessly fighting the big wildfire since earlySeptember. The fire has killed at least nine...
More than half a million people — 12% of the state's population — have fled from their homes in Oregon and mass evacuations are underway across the region. Oregon's governor, Kate Brown, said the fires have burned more than 1 million acres. "I know it's been a rough few days, ...
everyone has masks now," iverson said. "we have n95 masks. that's fairly good; it helps filter." in western oregon, which has historically escaped catastrophic weather events, the crop losses may be felt more severely than other areas, iverson says "we usually don't have crop in...
The U.S. Forest Service said weather conditions in areas of the state, which include mist and favorable wind, was helping to limit the rapid spread of the blaze and dispersing smoke and fog to better firefighting conditions. Two of the Oregon’s largest fires that continue to threaten communi...
"San Francisco's gone completely. Usually, it pops out, the Bay Bridge and all that. But you can't even see it right now," said Dan Scarola. From his backyard deck, Scarola had a bird's eye view of the smokethat had settled in from fires burning clear up at the Oregon ...
Specialized recruiting for moderated sessions yielded 2 participants with asthma and 3 participants who were affected by the Cedar Creek Fire, a wildfire smoke event that resulted in hazardous air quality levels in the town of Oakridge, Oregon in October 2022. Unmoderated sessions were administered ...
For thousands of years, North American tribes carefully burned forests to manage the land. The future may lie in a return to that past.
The phenomenon isn’t restricted to California. Doug Grafe, chief of Fire Protection at the Oregon Department of Forestry, said it was unprecedented in his state for fires this week to spread from the crest of the Cascade Mountains into the valleys below, and so quickly, “carrying tens of ...