Sentences with phrase «as wildfires»

Since its launch, RRF has raised more than $ 25 million for victims of disasters, such as wildfires, floods, tornados, and hurricanes.

«Canadians watched in horror as wildfires raged out of control in Northern Alberta, engulfing Fort McMurray, laying waste to homes and businesses and threatening the lives of many,» says Phil Soper, Royal LePage's president and CEO.

The good news is that most Memphis insurance providers will compensate South Memphis residents dealing with the aftermath of an arson, an accidental fire as well as wildfires, all of which are common across Tennessee.

Special natural disasters such as wildfires and earthquakes are usually not covered, but you may be able to purchase protection as a rider to your policy.

Many natural disasters that strike Maine, such as wildfires and floods, can destroy a home, whether it's a freestanding home or a condominium.

At the same time that many homeowners insurance customers are discovering the peace of mind that their policies can bring as the wildfires in California continue to creep ever closer to their homes, others are finding that if their policies are up for renewal, it may not be possible to continue their coverage.

This report assesses the threats of natural disasters and aims at developing strategies for the management of extreme weather events, such as wildfires, floods and droughts.

As these wildfires rage, atmospheric currents carry their smoke plumes over other areas, including Greenland, as the CALIPSO images show.

But as wildfires increase in frequency and severity, those ecosystems could see could their soil fertility and carbon capture depleted.

As wildfires burn longer and fiercer, doctors are trying to work out how today's smoke will affect tomorrow's health.

The analysis of twenty - two disaster loss studies shows that economic losses from various weather related natural hazards, such as storms, tropical cyclones, floods, and small - scale weather events such as wildfires and hailstorms, have increased around the globe.

In order to grasp the reasons behind the discrepancies, we investigate the effect of aerosol sources that are not properly included in the model's emission inventory and in the boundary conditions such as the wildfires and the desert dust component.

Massive smoke plumes has stretched from British Columbia to Oregon as wildfires rage.

Since its launch in 2002, the MODIS on NASA's Aqua satellite has detected thermal anomalies such as wildfires, agricultural fires, and gas flares on a daily basis.

Even as wildfires and hurricanes ransack the coasts, and record - breaking temperatures stack up, there's still little appetite among the party's leaders to address climate change through tax policy.

Reporting on the challenges faced by Canadian communities in a warming world as wildfires consume resources, property and lives.

Smoldering fires can be ignited by natural causes such as wildfires, lightning strikes, self - heating or anthropogenic factors, e.g., slash and burn, arson, mining activities or waste incineration.

Plus: Getty collection to stay put as wildfires rage in southern California Laura Paulson to leave Christie's University of Iowa announces new gallery for its art collection Anne - Imelda Radice to step down as director of American Folk Art Museum

Member agencies have cooperatively responded nationally and internationally to natural disasters such as wildfires, flooding, ice storms, tornadoes, earthquakes and hurricanes, and to man - made animal disasters including puppy mills and hoarders.

As wildfires swept through California, Hurricane Harvey was wreaking havoc on the southern part of Texas and Louisiana.

VCA Animal Hospitals made the offer Dec. 6 as wildfires burned more than 100,000 acres and an undetermined number of homes in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.

As wildfires approached the western hills on Wednesday, Oct. 11, St. Helena's We Care Animal Rescue evacuated 188 of its cats to Napa.

Jameson Animal Rescue Ranch (JARR) says it has a new Large Animal Emergency Response Unit that is capable of ferrying horses and other animals involved in accidents or endangered by natural disasters, such as wildfires.

Special natural disasters such as wildfires and earthquakes are usually not covered, but you may be able to purchase protection as a rider to your policy.

Other potential catastrophes such as wildfires, residential fires and mudslides have the potential to cause a total loss to your home.

In the scorching, drought - plagued summer of 1934, as wildfires burn across Utah, Detective Lieutenant Art Oveson faces a unique assignment.

Hundreds of schools shut down across Southern California last week as wildfires raged across parched land in one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit the region.

As wildfires continue to devastate areas of California, it seems incredibly timely for the debut of a populist firefighter tribute full of bombast and manipulation.

But public awareness of the urgency of the climate challenge remains low even as journalists report more deeply about how global warming will alter our cities and environment and how we'll have to adapt to those changes as wildfires rage, ice sheets melt and seas rise.

Even a child knows that trees absorb carbon in the atmosphere, and as these wildfires continue to increase in frequency, so too will the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere reduce at a slower rate, or rather, increase at a faster rate.

The Western Canadian province of Saskatchewan said on Sunday it was evacuating an additional 8,000 people from the far north of the province, as wildfires continue to spread and threaten homes.

Using these historical records, University of Missouri researchers were able to shed new light on how the interaction of natural disturbances, such as wildfires, and human actions shape forest conditions and the ecosystem services that forests provide today.

In this study, Horney and colleagues focused on PAHs, which are a product of combustion from human activities such as petroleum consumption in transportation or natural processes such as wildfires.

«Substantial proportions literally say that they believe global warming made specific extreme weather events worse, such as Harvey and Irma and Maria, such as wildfires out West, such as the extreme heat wave that grounded planes in Phoenix.»

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.

Beyond honing communications skills, participants said while the discussions often started off with broad trends in climate science, invariably the exchanges shifted to specific local issues such as wildfires, ozone levels, crop rotations, sea level rise, droughts and air quality.

As wildfires rage across Southern California, many parents with babies and young children will be affected.

It's too early to tell exactly how much of an impact hurricanes Harvey and Irma will have on the prices for lumber and other building materials, especially as other factors such as wildfires and duties are still uncertain.

As the wildfires burned, Brent crude oil prices soared above $ 50 per barrel for the first time in 2016.

As the wildfires raged and winds blew unpredictably, oil producers in the area — including Suncor, Syncrude, Shell, Canadian Natural Resources and Husky — were forced to cease operations and evacuate employees.

As wildfires rage in California's wine country, the scene is set for a recurrence of Oakland's devastating 1991 blaze.

As wildfires have been multiplying over recent years and the trend is likely to continue in that direction, new technologies to combat fire are being invented, and two students at George Mason University are at the forefront of the trend.

As wildfires continue to rage through California with no end in sight, it's likely that more celebrities will be forced to evacuate their homes, if they haven't been already.

In the last five years, as wildfires have struck California with growing frequency, he retrofitted both his office and home with materials that don't burn easily.

As wildfire continues to rage in Fort McMurray Alberta, energy industry analysts and insurance companies are waiting for the smoke to clear to assess the extent of the economic damage the disaster has wrought.

Doing this is easy when you use a service such as Wildfire to take care of the technology behind the scenes.

Scientists around the globe turn to the EOS satellite data for purposes as diverse as wildfire tracking, prioritizing land for conservation, and forecasting hurricanes.

He has studied and published on how avian and vegetation systems re-assemble after disturbances such as wildfire, wind - throw and ice storms, and after incidences of forest disease in Boreal ecosystems of North America.

The impacts of climate change mean that the threshold will likely be crossed more often in the coming century as wildfire season lasts longer and

The impacts of climate change mean that the threshold will likely be crossed more often in the coming century as wildfire season lasts longer and sparks more large fires.