Last week my location was blanketed by smoke from forest fires in northern Quebec, with the air quality index pegged as high as it goes (which is to say, eleven). The iPhone’s default weather app has an air quality map that I made use of—you could actually see the fire hotspots—...
Finally, while lower- and moderate-intensity fires can reduce the smoke-related health impacts of large, high-intensity wildfires75, moving toward progressive suppression would likely increase the frequency of low-level smoke emissions, much like the increased use of prescribed fire75,76. As such,...
Large parts of eastern Australia were engulfed in smoke as a result of the Black Summer fires. A quarter of participants in a January 2020 survey in the worst-affected state of New South Wales (NSW) said wildfire smoke had harmed their health (The Australian Institute 2020). Emissions of ...
For thousands of years, North American tribes carefully burned forests to manage the land. The future may lie in a return to that past.
When several cameras detect possible smoke or a fire, they transmit that information to a cloud server that stitches the multiple images together using digital elevation models, computer vision techniques, and other sophisticated computing tools. This is a complex and critical process, Raghavan said,...
A huge forest fire that prompted evacuations north of Los Angeles flared up around noon, sending up a cloud of smoke as it headed toward thick, dry brush in the Angeles National Forest. Although it was burning into forest land, evacuation orders remained in effect for the western Antelope Va...
WATCH: Tips to help protect yourself from wildfire smoke Protecting infrastructure Daniels said it is time for governments to increase investment in programs to help people make their homes more fire resistant, and to ensure all new...
Wildfires in 2020 ravaged California to set the annual record of area burned to date. Clusters of wildfires in Northern California surrounded the Bay Area covering the skies with smoke and raising the air pollutant concentrations to hazardous levels. Thi
Extending over 180 miles (300 kilometers), the smoke cloud can be seen spreading southwest toward Libya in North Africa. As it passed over the region yesterday, the #NOAA20 satellite captured the #smoke plumes and heat signatures from large #wildfires burning near Athens, Greece. #Greece...
Advertisement Among the hardest-hit areas is the district of Aveiro, south of the northern city of Porto, but blazes were also raging out of control in other wooded areas. Portuguese state broadcaster RTP showed images of houses burnt to the ground and smoke billowing ...