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A range of bushfire and weather prediction maps used in Australia. The researchers surveyed more than 3,000 people across all Australian states and territories in 2022 and 2023 to see if and how ...
Global wildfires made much more likely thanks to climate change
Nov 19, 2024 · The researchers said in all major focal events the report studied, extremely burned areas were driven by the synchronized critical factors of weather, fuel moisture, and fuel abundance.
Wildfires, smoke more deadly globally as climate change continues
Oct 21, 2024 · The first study looked into how climate change affects regional burned area patterns and found global burned area increases.. Simulations found climate change increased global burned area by 15.8% ...
Wildfire smoke jumping's dangers may be lessened by new study
Dec 13, 2024 · Smokejumpers approaching landing zone in 2011. Photo: Mike McMillan. For a smokejumper, parachuting from a low-flying aircraft in a remote and rugged landscape, turbulence near the ground at the ...
Wyoming fire to 'significantly' grow after nearly quadrupling in size
Aug 22, 2024 · The Fish Creek Fire has burned nearly 8,000 acres in Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest. The wildfire is expected to get even bigger.
'Unprecedented' Wyoming wildfire expands evacuations
Oct 3, 2024 · The Elk Fire burning throughout Wyoming’s Big Horn National Forest near the town of Dayton triggered evacuations late Tuesday night and expanded evacuation warnings for nearby residents ...
Google's global wildfire tracking satellites to offer ultra-early alerts
Sep 16, 2024 · Credit: Google Research. It will take multiple years for all the program’s satellites to launch, but it will take longer for the system to be fully operational.
Report released for the prescribed fire that led to the Hermits Peak ...
Jun 23, 2022 · Las Dispensas prescribed fire, 1:07 p.m. MDT April 6, 2022. USFS photo. An 80-page report (4.7Mb) released by the U.S. Forest Service concluded that the management of the prescribed fire that ...
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Aug 5, 2024 · South America’s highest wildfire activity was in Bolivia and areas of the Brazilian Amazon. Bolivian government officials said a record 11,576 active fires burned in the region on July 24, with ...
Scientists confirm that nighttime wildfire activity is increasing
Nov 16, 2021 · The information above is from the study “Large wildfire driven increases in nighttime fire activity observed across CONUS from 2003–2020,” by Patrick H. Freeborn, W. Matt Jolly, Mark A ...