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This spring, B.C.’s Knowledge Network released a five-part docuseries called Wildfire, about BC Wildfire Service firefighters and the on-the-ground reality of their work. A third crowdfunded ...
By Steve LemeshkoOn the night of July 23, I stood outside in Limassol, watching ash drift from the sky. It was hard to imagine the chaos unfolding up towards the Troodos mountains. This was the ...
Matt Harris, a forest fire researcher at Western and lead-author of the study, says that two decades of data on fires across ...
The soil in high-elevation, cooler, drier tropical forests in the Colombian Andes stores more carbon from fires than lower, ...
So far, Washington's fire season is shaping up exactly as expected. The entire state and Oregon has above-normal fire risk.
"With climate change, high wind, less rain, and high heat here, there's an increased risk of wildfire risk,” Allen Kratz, the ...
In the wake of climate disasters in Texas and California, city officials are updating their blueprint for extreme weather ...
Westfield, Massachusetts, suffered from heavy flooding and rainfall in the middle of August 1955, making it the wettest day ...
Scientists have discovered something that should concern anyone worried about climate change: Australia has a carbon bomb ...
Wildfires that erupt naturally usually start due to lightning strikes. However, lightning-caused fires generally affect a ...
The impact of Syria’s coastal forests in Latakia will be long-lasting, as experts warn that food chains and ecosystems will ...