Sentences with phrase «areas burned by»

By 2090, the area burned by forest fires in the European Union could increase by 200 % because of climate change, according to a new study published in the journal Regional Environmental Change.

The increasing frequency and area burned by large fires is linked to human - caused climate change as well as other environmental changes.

And it is the third largest area burned by wildfires in the last decade through late July.

It finds that the expansion of cropland into previously unmanaged areas has led to an overall decrease in the area burned by wildfires.

«Our paper shows that, since the 1930s, increasing population densities and cropland area have led to a decrease in area burned by wildfires and an associated decrease in wildfires CO2 emissions.»

July 25, 2016 • The body of a man was found in an area burned by a 33,000 acre wildfire north of Los Angeles.

For warming levels of 1 °C to 2 °C, the area burned by wildfire in parts of western North America is expected to increase by 2 to 4 times for each degree (°C) of global warming.»

A 2012 study suggests that the area burned by wildfires in the United States could double by 2050.

The area burned by these fires has shown an even larger increase: in an average year, more than six times as many acres across the West were burned in the 2010s than in the 1970s.

The area burned by these fires is also growing at an alarming rate.

Due to warmer and drier summer conditions, the typical annual area burned by fire in the Northwest is projected to double by the 2040s and quadruple by the 2080s.

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In an average year, Alaska wildfires devour twice the area burned by wildfires in all of the lower 48 — and emit more greenhouse gases than all of those other wildfires combined, the USGS said.

Not exact matches

Brazil, Indonesia, many parts of Africa and Canada typically experience larger wildfires (measured by area burned) than the United States on a yearly average.

In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large, coal - burning electric plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be suffered by a predominantly native American population, but the power generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.

During the Vietnam war, when government officials talked of «regrettable by - products,» they meant civilians killed by mistake; «pacification» meant the forcible evacuation of Vietnamese from their huts, the rounding up of all males, the shooting of those who resisted, the slaughtering of domesticated animals and the burning of dwellings; «incursion» meant another invasion of another country; creating a «sanitized belt» meant forcibly removing all the inhabitants of the area being «sanitized,» cutting down the trees, bulldozing the land and erecting «defensive positions» with machine guns, mortars and mines.

To name a few: infertility, size determined by cutting off too much, and burns thus permanent damage to the area.

Following an attack by yet to be revealed gunmen on Akpanche community in Bassa Local Government Area of Kogi State, 15 houses have been burnt while five members of the community were killed.

The analysis shows that if CLIM models are used the area burnt is underestimated by at least 15 %.

Nearly a decade after being logged, vegetation in forested areas severely burned by California's Cone Fire in 2002 was relatively similar to areas untouched by logging equipment.

Under a scenario where emissions increase through 2050 and gradually decrease afterward, the assessment predicts that the median area burned each year in the Northwest could quadruple, reaching 2 million acres annually by the 2080s.

Using herbivorous tortoise beetle populations in Florida's Apalachicola National Forest — where management areas experience controlled burns on a three - year burn schedule — a team of FSU researchers found evidence that factors like time since fire and population levels in surrounding areas can predict recolonization patterns in patches disturbed by burns.

Actively burning areas, detected by VIIRS are outlined in red.

In contrast, soot produced by burning biofuels is often a product of dung - or wood - powered cookstoves used indoors and in densely populated areas.

In the worst - case scenario, more carbon could be released from the bogs and permafrost in northern areas than have been released by the burning of fossil fuels to date.

Lest we forget, by the turn of the 19th century, 97 per cent of Sweden's forests had been reduced to swidden — an area reduced by slash and burn — again proving the importance of naming names even in the century that gave birth to Carl Linnaeus.

The first to go was the assumption that fire always originated in the area of deepest charring, where intense heat creates partial burns marked by a charcoal residue.

Actively burning areas, detected by MODIS's thermal bands, are outlined in red.

The research uses a large, high - quality database provided by the European Forest Fire Information System to analyze the burned areas in summer in Mediterranean Europe which coincide with drought episodes and are related to previous wet conditions.

Slightly deeper fires can sometimes be quenched by digging out the burning coal — in Indonesia, Whitehouse's crews did this by hand — and then burying the entire area.

Gaveau said analysis by his organization showed the fires on the two largest burnt areas in Indonesia's Riau province on Sumatra island during February and March this year were either started outside concessions, or on land occupied by small - scale operators within concessions.

Conventional analysis of satellite data can only detect clear - cut and burned areas, and has been unable to distinguish selective logging hidden by the rainforest's dense canopy.

The researchers incorporated information on soot produced by burning fossil fuels, wood and other biofuels, along with that naturally produced by forest fires and then checked their model predictions against global measurements of soot levels in polar snow from Sweden to Alaska to Russia and in Antarctica as well as in nonpolar areas such as the Tibetan Plateau.

Studies in Alaska and Canada have projected that hotter, drier summers may increase annual wildfire burn areas by two to three times by the end of the century.

The bottom picture shows the burned areas by enhancing near - infrared light seen by Terra's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS).

Projections indicate that for every 1.8 °F further rise in temperature — and the western U.S. could see average temperatures rise by up to 9 °F by 2100 — there could be a quadrupling in the area burned each year in the western U.S..

This is essentially what Abatzoglou and colleagues» results seem to point to: differences in fire severity can't be gleaned just by looking at area burned.

One study we reviewed found that if temperatures rise 3.2 °F by mid-century, this could lead to 54 % increase in the annual area burned in the western U.S. 22 The same study found that the forests of the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountains will likely experience the greatest increases in annual burn area (78 % and 175 %, respectively).

Inter-annual variations in mean US fire weather season length were significantly correlated with variation in annual burned area reported by the US National Interagency Fire Center44 over the full time series from 1979 to 2013 and also from 1992 to 2013, when fire occurrence data quality was highest45 (ρ = 0.679 and 0.683, respectively, P < 0.001).

The community focused on broad research areas critical to moving the field into the burning plasma science era when there will be a strong focus on the creation and study of plasmas where the energy to sustain fusion reactions is generated by the plasma itself.

In part because fire records are much more reliable for large fires compared to small fires, and also because large fires are more destructive, Westerling and colleagues focused only on large fires (at least 1000 acres in size); by doing this they eliminated over 99 % of the total reported fires, yet could still include 73 % of the total area burned.

Arora, V. K. & Melton, J. R. (2018) Reduction in global area burned and wildfire emissions since 1930s enhances carbon uptake by land, doi: 10.1038 / s41467 -018-03838-0

They are used in many areas of human health, including as nutritional supplements by athletes and as treatments for burns, neurological disorders, AIDS, cancer and late - stage kidney failure.

Complete restoration of deforested areas is unrealistic, yet 100 GtC carbon drawdown is conceivable because: (1) the human - enhanced atmospheric CO2 level increases carbon uptake by some vegetation and soils, (2) improved agricultural practices can convert agriculture from a CO2 ource into a CO2 sink [174], (3) biomass - burning power plants with CO2 capture and storage can contribute to CO2 drawdown.

The research finds that, over the past few decades, large areas of forest and savannah have been converted to cropland, meaning that the overall area that could be burned by wildfires has decreased.

The burn duration has increased steadily decade by decade as well, and in each of the five forest areas we studied.

Follow the white smoke trail of copal (a sacred resin Mayans burnt to connect to the divine) and it'll take you down to therapy pools, garden treatment cabins and a vintage Fifties - style dresser in the relaxation area, created by Sebastian Sas, who co-owns Yäan as well as Be Tulum and Nomade, the new choice of wanderlusters.

When you're training two or three muscle groups in a single workout, you may think you need to rest longer between sets and try to achieve a 45 -60-minute workout, but by activating all areas, you'll need to decrease the rest periods between sets, which will enable you to maintain a high level of intensity throughout the workout and increase the fat burning process.

By tracking ketones, you can see if your body is in ketosis (where it burns fat instead of carbs), how well the diet is working, and if you need to make adjustments in any certain area.

If pseudogynecomastia is caused by the presence of fatty tissue, targeting the chest area to burn these fat reserves and doing more cardio is a good approach.