Campfire bans implemented in Western states as wildfire fears grow Nearly 85% of wildfires are started by people, including from campfires, negligently discarded cigarettes and intentional acts of arson, according to the National Park Service. ...
In western Canada, wildfires are a natural and common part of the forest ecosystem . They remove debris and undergrowth from the forest floor, open up the forest canopy to sunlight, kill insects and diseases that harm trees and add valuable nutrients to the ground....
Montreal— Western Canada's spreading wildfires prompted fresh evacuation orders on Sunday as authorities registered over 100 active blazes. Around 30,000 people have been told to leave their homes in Alberta, where more than two dozen fires have not yet been brought under control. Smoke and fire...
The Western United States, for example, has seen larger fires in each of the last several years and more intense burning, and many times as fire spread faster, making them more difficult to put out and more dangerous for the communities who live in that vicinity.例如，美国西部，在过去的几...
“I don’t remember fires of this scale in the last 10 years,” James said of the Quebec blazes. Smoke from fires in western Canada have been drifting into the United States for weeks. But it’s recent fires in Quebec that have produced the dangerous east coast haze. WHY IS SMOKE REAC...
The CPPFE is an organization based on the American “training exchange” model where small organizations collaborate to improve training and practice. It aims to be a hub for grassland-prescribed fire knowledge in Western Canada. The future of fire ...
(NEW YORK) — Wildfires burning in Canada have prompted hazardous air pollution conditions in the U.S. this week, as smoke moves South and lingers over much of the Northeast. While wildfires in California and other western states have prompted air quality warnings in the past, seeing them on...
2020). Several decades have seen a dramatic increase in the length of fire seasons as far away as the Arctic, as well as intense fires from the tropical wetlands of the Pantanal in South America to the peatlands of tropical Asia. In the western United States, warmer and drier conditions ...
Climate change is narrowing and shifting prescribed fire windows in western United States Article Open access 03 October 2023 Drivers and Impacts of the Record-Breaking 2023 Wildfire Season in Canada Article Open access 20 August 2024 Global climate change below 2 °C avoids large end centu...
One of the largest wildfires burning in Western Canada, Patry Creek re-emerged May 2 after smouldering through the winter. Patry Creek is a so-called holdover fire, and wildfire officials in British Columbia have expressed concern that last year’s record fire season, along with contin...