Wildfire smoke often covers areas larger than the burned area, yet the impacts of smoke on nearby aquatic ecosystems are understudied. In the summer of 2018, wildfire smoke covered Castle Lake (California, USA) for 55 days. We quantified the influence of smoke on the lake by comparing the ph...
The world's forests are getting drier and people are living closer to them, ushering in a dangerous new era—unless we can find a way to coexist with the flames.
we chose to sample the nearby Laikipia county because the county is more affected by fires from Mt Kenya than Kirinyaga county, which is on the wetter side of the mountain. Because of the lower sample size when spread across five sampled counties, we instead narrowed the analysis at the tri...
Finally, the ability to view your own data and how you respond to various pollution threats facilitates comparison with map and newsfeed aggregated data of nearby users and the broader population of users (Fig. 1). Such comparisons can also be explicitly tied to user data as an example of ...
Google plans to roll out a new wildfire layer on Maps. GIF: Google Not only will users in the US now have a bird’s-eye view of major fires nearby; they’ll also even be able to see small fires on the map — a feature not yet available in other parts of the world. Australia an...
People who live in urban places are not always aware that forests are part of intense human activity and a precious source of income for the inhabitants of the nearby area, e.g., in Greece, for grazing goats and cattle, collecting resin of the trees, cutting trees for timber, and various...
Instead of comparing a single pixel where a fire was sensed to other nearby pixels potentially affected by the same fire, we defined a reference buffer—pixels surrounding a fire—to compare with albedo values within a fire. Similar to our fire objects, the reference buffer is a contiguous ...
The case was instituted by the owners of a mostly-prosperous wharf on Baltimore Harbor against the City of Baltimore. The municipality had undertaken street upgrades and improvements on one of the city's several hills nearby, which resulted in increased runoff into the harbor and the eventual sil...
◦ Fire perimeters - access all realtime fire perimeters at once with information about fire growth and progress, including acreage, containment, personnel, fire cause, and fire behavior ◦ Report a fire - instantly inform other users of a nearby fire by pressing the + button, taking a pic...
MORE: Using US map to examine scale of massive Australia wildfires The wildlife that has survived, by either fleeing or going underground, will face immense difficulties once they return to their natural habitat, according to Professor Dickman. The resources they once lived off of will no long...