Sentences with phrase «bigger wildfires»

Bigger wildfires.

Tracing through this list, it becomes increasingly clear how the links between distant events lock into self - reinforcing loops: rising emissions, higher temperatures, shrinking sea ice, additional warming, extended droughts, bigger wildfires, and higher emissions still.

Accelerated environmental changes can already be seen in the loss of Arctic sea ice and bigger wildfires since 1980, the authors said.

There are other factors that are favoring more and bigger wildfires, such as the decades of active fire suppression that have created dense forests with ample fuel, making fires more difficult to control.

«More, bigger wildfires burning western US over last 30 years.»

State officials on Monday reported a record 129 million dead trees across 8.9 million acres due to drought and bark beetles, posing the biggest wildfire hazard to the Sierra Nevada region in the northern part of the state.

All of which points to the central paradox of fire in the sky islands: Big wildfires happen when small wildfires are put out.

And Reid's statement is easy to test... California's big wildfires are, ironically, caused by excessive winter rains.

For politicians, claiming that the big wildfires are the result of global warming provides a convenient excuse not to address the real problems:

Not exact matches

In the western US overall, the average annual number of wildfires that are bigger than 1,000 acres has more than doubled since 1970, according to Climate Central.

The big - box retailer's soft reopening was welcomed by shoppers as another sign of north Santa Rosa's recovery from the October wildfires.

Months after taking a shot from Hurricane Irma, Big Pine Key is again in recovery mode after a large wildfire scorched acres of land.

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How an Important Central Coast Vineyard Fought Off the Alamo Fire Two of the current wildfire season's biggest blazes, the Alamo and Whittier fires, have ravaged tens of thousands of acres in Californias Central Coast region, in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties, respectively...

Although current drought worries have been focused in the West — Western states have experienced insect outbreaks; mass tree die - offs; loss of water and carbon; bigger and more costly wildfires; and economic impacts to timber stands due to severe, multiyear drought — in the wake of a changing climate, the report notes that «all U.S. forests are vulnerable to drought.»

From an ecological perspective, Mack's work will focus on predicting when systems will be unable to recover following big disturbances, including wildfire, altering the function of ecosystems and resources that they provide to people.

Stanford professor's calculations indicate that wildfires and other types of fires involving plant matter play a much bigger role in climate change and human health than previously thought.

The big - picture message here is that these species — which include a soapwort and a poppy found in the mountains of Europe, grey alder found in North America and the African mahogany — are more vulnerable to further changes and to disturbances such as wildfires or pest outbreaks.

Greenpeace Russia reported a big spike in wildfires over the past three years, as well.

In Canada and Russia, wildfires were likely the biggest driver of forest cover loss in 2013, WRI reported.

Hundreds of firefighters battled to gain control of a raging wildfire along central California's scenic Big Sur coastline on Tuesday, hampered by steep and brushy terrain and narrow roads, officials said.

Almost everywhere on the planet where combustible green cover exists, wildfires are becoming a bigger risk, new research has found.

The trend in wildfire destruction in California and throughout the West bends toward bigger, more destructive and drought - driven blazes.

«Alberta's boreal forest could be dramatically altered by 2100 due to climate change: Model by UAlberta biologists predicts big changes due to climate change and wildfire.»

Airing Tuesday, Feb. 3 as part of the «American Experience» series, «The Big Burn» tells the story of a massive wildfire in the Northern Rocky Mountains that tested the mettle of the embryonic Forest Service and set the course for wildfire management for the rest of the 20th century.

In some ecosystems, big, severe wildfires are natural events and more climate - driven — by drought or high winds — so fuel reduction is not a very effective tool in these locations.

Wildfires across the western United States have been getting bigger and more frequent over the last 30 years — a trend that could continue as climate change causes temperatures to rise and drought to become more severe in the coming decades, according to new research.

Wildfires are a big concern.

Wildfires are nothing new, but a complex combination of climate change, forest management practices, and development patterns are making them bigger and more damaging.

2015 also saw the biggest single - year jump in carbon dioxide levels at the observatory atop Hawaii's Mauna Loa, a record that came in part because of El Niño's influence on greenhouse gas - emitting wildfires in the tropics.

To get the big - picture, we've created a brand new wildfire tracker that shows where every wildfire is burning with a side of climate.

California currently has 17 wildfires blazing; the biggest fire has been the Rocky Fire, which as of Aug. 7 had burned nearly 70,000 acres and destroyed dozens of homes.

But the weather is the biggest driver of how far wildfires can spread.

The Western wildfire season is 105 days longer than it was 45 years ago as climate change fuels more and bigger blazes.

Forests that historically had large areas with no snow on the ground for two to four months and high moisture loss from soils and vegetation in spring and summer have seen the biggest increases in wildfire in early spring snowmelt years (for example, the northern Rockies and parts of the Sierra Nevada).

SIMILES, METAPHORS, AND FOOD By Debbie Burke A few days ago, after a brief but welcome rain shower washed the choking wildfire smoke from the Big Skies of Montana, I visited a friend's cherry orchard on Flathead Lake.

More Robot phones come to big Red Mobile phone network Vodafone has started pre-ordering for the new flagship HTC Desire S handset, along with the budget Wildfire S mobile phone.

It scales up like a wildfire does, consuming the fuel of our content — good tidings of great joy — and looking for the oxygen of big, big, big audiences of fans who are less, less, less discerning by the day — which shall be to all people.

I remember when he made his first big sale, the word went up and down the street like wildfire: «Bill sold a painting!

I suspect the correct position is we can't yet be sure if climate change is enough of an effect to have increased wildfires, but increased temperatures and bigger swings between drought and deluge have to increase fire hazard in general.

He talked about the growing size and intensity of wildfires that've incinerated more than 5 million acres in the state this summer, the second - biggest fire season on record.

Damage from extreme weather events during 2017 racked up the biggest - ever bills for the U.S.. Most of these events involved conditions that align intuitively with global warming: heat records, drought, wildfires, coastal flooding, hurricane damage and heavy rainfall.

Firefighters have been dispatched to address the fires and protect the reindeer territory, but scientists worry that smoke and carbon the wildfire is producing are the bigger issue.

To get the big - picture, we've created a brand new wildfire tracker that shows where every wildfire is burning with a side of climate.

This bargain for better living standards comes with a huge price — an irreversibly hotter planet — with more huge storms, prolonged droughts, crop failures, acidic oceans, dead corals, insect range increases, larger wildfires, and sea level rise with bigger storm surges.

But the weather is the biggest driver of how much area that wildfires actually burn.

It can simulate the hurricane that is threatening the coast, the big thunderstorm that is bearing down on your town, the flow of polluted air out of an industrial area, or conditions near a wildfire and where the smoke will travel.

From big schools like the University of Michigan to small liberal arts colleges like Amherst, the idea of divestment is spreading like wildfire.

This year it is causing big typhoons in the western pacific and wildfires in Australia.

The big reason for the wildfires in Siberia (and Alaska as well — over 500 of them in summer of 2014) is caused by methane releases from melting permafrost.