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...
Firefighters are working to cut a perimeter around the fire. Students at Pepperdine University in Malibu were told to shelter in place as the flames crept neared campus. Nearby homeowners had minutes to get their horses to safety, turning the iconic Zuma Beach into a makeshift ranch. ...
California is burning and smoke has covered the northern half of the state and is spreading across the U.S. Most of the fires were started by a huge “lightning siege” that started on August 15th. How unusual was this massive lightning event? That question will be answered below. Smoke ...
How did these vehicles burn up in the Cali. fires when trees nearby remain untouched? Which begs the question about what type of technology they are putting in vehicles these days. Is there also a “SMART meter” in every car, SUV and truck sold in America today? And if so, will it ...
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 ...
At half past midnight on October 9th 2017, they were told to evacuate. A fire on nearby Atlas Peak was heading in their direction. A handful of firefighters, led by Larry Carr, a Circle Oaks resident, did their best to beat back the flames. Circle Oaks’ fire-safety measure...
While sources of urban ignition were tied to fire branding and ember cast from the nearby Tubbs Fire, evidence here suggests that, once ignited, fire be- havior was driven within the community by high winds in conjunction with urban conflagration factors such as high housing density, building ...
birds and other animals from nearby white-sand savannas visit open burnt forests, they might disperse tree seeds and promote the tree compositional shift we observed. Once trees arrive in burnt sites, they have to face environmental conditions that can potentially limit seedling germination and early...
Additionally, shrubs that depend on fire-stimulated recruitment from exist- ing seed banks (Taboada et al. 2017) or opportunis- tic species that rely on seed dispersal from unburned patches nearby (Arnan et al. 2013) could rapidly colo- nize recently burned areas. In addition to ...
(WUI) where they posed a threat to nearby people and cities [2,7]. It is important to recognize that, in Chile, a small number of fires can be responsible for disproportionately large burned areas [8]. Therefore, it is critical for effective fire prevention to better understand the ...