UC Irvine scientists reveal what fuels wildfires in Sierra Nevada Mountains
Irvine, Calif., Sept. 25, 2023 — Wildfires in California, exacerbated by human-driven climate change, are getting more severe. To better ...
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Socially vulnerable populations are disproportionately exposed to wildfires in the West, study finds
CORVALLIS, Ore. – People experiencing a high degree of social vulnerability are also more exposed to wildfires in Oregon and ...
REBURN: A new tool to model wildfires in the Pacific Northwest and beyond
FROM: James Urton Credit: NASA/MODIS Rapid Response Team/Goddard Space Flight Center FROM: James Urton University of Washington 206-543-2580 jurton@uw.edu (Note: ...
Wildfires and farming activities may be top sources of air pollution linked to increased risk, cases of dementia
No amount of air pollution is good for the brain, but wildfires and the emissions resulting from agriculture and farming ...
Dry lightning can spark wildfires even under wetter conditions
VANCOUVER, Wash. – Dry lightning can still be disastrous even when conditions aren’t so dry, a study has found. These ...
Canadian wildfires produce catastrophic carbon emissions this year
Canada is currently experiencing its worst fire season on record. According to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC), as ...
How microgrids can help communities adapt to wildfires
– By Dan Mullen Credit: Jorge Villalba/iStock – By Dan Mullen Wildfires have become increasingly frequent due to climate change, ...
Indigenous people in South America are twice as likely to die from wildfires
A new study, published in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research: Health, reveals that Indigenous people in the Amazon Basin are ...
Wildfires and animal biodiversity
Wildfires. Many see them as purely destructive forces, disasters that blaze through a landscape, charring everything in their paths. But ...
A mechanistic and probabilistic method for predicting wildfires
Spanning long distances across variable terrains, electric power systems can spark wildfires in the event of dry weather and high ...
Wildfires in 2021 emitted a record-breaking amount of carbon dioxide
Irvine, Calif., March 2, 2023 — Carbon dioxide emissions from wildfires, which have been gradually increasing since 2000, spiked drastically ...
Climate whiplash increased wildfires on California’s west coast about 8,000 years ago
Scientists are trying to uncover and analyze evidence from the past in their search for a better assessment of future ...
Flocking to fire: wildfires don’t deter Americans from moving to at-risk regions
The climate crisis has caused humans to move both within their countries of origin and across borders. Although climate migration ...
Arctic warming linked to increasing Arctic wildfires
Continued global warming is creating conditions that will likely cause dramatic increases in Arctic wildfires within the coming decades, potentially ...
After wildfires, do microbes exhale potent greenhouse gas?
Laughing gas is no laughing matter — nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas with 300 times the warming potential of ...
New AI system predicts how to prevent wildfires
Wildfires are a growing threat in a world shaped by climate change. Now, researchers at Aalto University have developed a ...
Understanding the effect of wildfires on air quality: a NASA initiative
Wildfires, characterized by unplanned, uncontrolled, and unpredictable fires erupting in areas such as forests, grasslands, and prairies, have recently grown ...
Smoke from the Black Summer wildfires in Australia impacted the climate and high altitude winds of the southern hemisphere for more than a year and a half
Leipzig. The 2019/20 wildfires in Australia transported more smoke into the atmosphere than observed ever before anywhere in the world. ...
Dry lightning sparks some of the most destructive and costly wildfires in California, study finds
A new study has found dry lightning outbreaks are the leading cause of some of the largest wildfire outbreaks in ...
Smoke from Western wildfires can influence Arctic sea ice, researchers find
Sea ice and wildfires may be more interconnected than previously thought, according to new research out today in Science Advances. ...
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Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal
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Fish reveal cause of altered human facial development
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Important additional driver of insect decline identified: Weather explains the decline and rise of insect biomass over 34 years
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UCLA-led team develops key improvement to Nobel Prize-winning technology
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New findings on hair loss in men
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New study definitively confirms gulf stream weakening, understanding the changes could help predict future trends in extreme events