An integrated wildfire event database for improved fire science research for the continental United States, 1992–2021
An integrated database of US wildfire events from 1992 to 2021 yields greater total burned area in every region and ...
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Lake Sediments Link 4,500-Year Fire History to Moisture Variability
A 4,500-year lake-sediment record from northwestern Yunnan associates the region’s strongest wildfire interval with reduced moisture and drier local conditions.
Fire Kills a Third of Reptiles in Mexico’s Sierra Morelos
A two-year field study found that fire killed roughly one-third of reptiles detected in burned areas of Sierra Morelos, Mexico, ...
Kurdistan’s oak forests are burning more each year as heat and drought intensify
A 24-year satellite analysis reveals significantly increasing burned areas in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, driven by rising temperatures and ...
Drought, Fire and People Converge to Threaten Iran’s Ancient Zagros Forests, New High-Resolution Risk Map Reveals
A new high-resolution mapping study shows that drought, wildfire and social vulnerability combine to expose more than half of Iran's ...
Heat and megafire push Sierra Nevada songbird into shrinking range
A four-year acoustic monitoring study across the Sierra Nevada reveals that the Hermit Warbler declined 8.3 percent as rising temperatures ...
Understory vegetation development six years after a wildfire in the temperate forests of Patagonia, Argentina
Six years after the largest wildfire ever recorded in Argentina's Andean-Patagonian forests, researchers have mapped how the forest floor is ...
Which Trees Galicia Plants Could Decide How Much Carbon Its Forest Soils Keep
A new study of 54 forest plantations in Galicia, Spain, finds that tree species shape soil moisture and microbial respiration, ...
Satellite Fire Maps Hide a Split Personality: New Study Decodes What Sentinel-2 Indices Really See After Wildfire
A field study in a fire-scarred Turkish Pinus brutia forest shows that the Sentinel-2 indices dNBR, RdNBR, and NDVI each ...
Vanishing Farmland Leaves the American West More Exposed to Wildfire
New research analyzing nearly 10,000 Western wildfires finds that irrigated cropland acts as a landscape-scale fire buffer, meaning drought-driven farmland ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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