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 ...
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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 ...
Vanishing Sea Ice and Parched Soils Supercharge Siberia’s Fire Weather, Study Finds
A new study shows that melting Laptev Sea ice triggers circulation and soil-drying feedbacks that amplify vapor pressure deficit and ...
Fire’s Hidden Carbon: Labile Sugars Race Ahead of Black Carbon After Wildfire
New research from fire-affected coastal California watersheds shows that labile levoglucosan peaks in the earliest post-fire runoff and fades over ...
Satellites Rescue a Nation’s Fire Records: Türkiye Builds a Validated Wildfire Inventory
A new openly available dataset validates and corrects more than a decade of Türkiye's official wildfire records using satellite detections ...
Standing but Struggling: Europe’s Forests Are Quietly Losing Their Power to Recover
A new eLTER policy brief warns that Europe's forests may appear intact while losing their capacity to recover from climate ...
After the Flames: Wildfires Reshape Bacterial Pollution in California’s Coastal Waters
A twenty-year analysis of California's coastal watersheds reveals that wildfires systematically alter fecal indicator bacteria levels, with distinct patterns in ...
Wildfires Are Quietly Pushing Toxic Arsenic Into the Water We Drink
A new scoping review finds that wildfires frequently mobilize arsenic into surface waters, with burned mining, agricultural, and urban areas ...
Seasons, Not Just Recovery, Control Mudslide Risk Years After California’s Lake Fire
A four-year study of California's 2020 Lake Fire shows that post-fire debris flow risk swings dramatically between wet and dry ...
Smarter Fuel Breaks: New Optimization Model Fights Wildfire While Protecting Caribou Routes
Researchers have developed a network optimization model that places fuel breaks to minimize wildfire spread while safeguarding woodland caribou migration ...
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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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