Sentences with phrase «destructive wildfires»

Among the likely impacts of climate change are increased heat waves, coastal and river flooding, crop failures, more destructive wildfires, increased erosion and heavy precipitation events.

The findings mark the first public reports by government authorities into what caused some of the dozens of blazes that erupted Oct. 8 and became the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in California history.

On June 11, 2013, during the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history, Strader lost her home, the original site of National Mill Dog Rescue.

... Southwest Airlines has signed an agreement with Red Rocks Biofuels LCC to purchase low carbon renewable jet fuel (approximately three million gallons a year), made using forest residues that will help reduce the risk of destructive wildfires in the Western United States.

June 12, 2012 • Crews are struggling to get the upper hand on several large, destructive wildfires burning across the parched southern Rockies.

Washington has officially had its most destructive wildfire season on record, including its largest wildfire in state history.

He wrote, «The paradox of fire management in conifer forests is that, if in the short term we are effective at reducing fire occurrence below a certain level, then sooner or later catastrophically destructive wildfires will occur.

Although the authors found destructive wildfires were concentrated in regions where humans have built into flammable landscapes, such as suburbs near forests and grasslands, not all regions of the world experienced similar levels of fire activity.

Reducing the risk of future destructive wildfires could be achieved by more prescribed burns and managed lightning - caused fires, according to a paper released this week in the journal Science.

It was published December 5th in the top - ranked journal «Nature Communications» — just in time for hugely destructive wildfires, again, in California.

Even if all the fires went out across the West tomorrow, this year would still rank as the seventh-most destructive wildfire season in terms of acres burned.

KNOXVILLE — Restoring diverse vegetation along the Atlantic seaboard after devastating hurricanes or replanting forests after destructive wildfires rests mightily upon one tiny but important ingredient: the seed.

It is no longer just a conversation about the divide between Global North and South, loss and damage has now become evident within the Global North through hurricane Katrina, extreme droughts in California, and destructive wildfires throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Apple wants to «aid in the rebuilding and recovery» of the communities in southern California affected by the recent rash of extremely destructive wildfires in the area.

Over 98 percent of large bushfires occur outside the populous south - east and south - west of Australia with over 70 percent occurring as environmentally destructive wildfires in the savannas of northern Australia.

The most destructive wildfires in California history devastated Wine Country.

The most destructive wildfire in Colorado history is the June 2013 Black Forest Fire.

After a year of vine - killing frosts, hail, drought, and destructive wildfires in regions from across the globe, the wine industry has a lot to look forward to in 2018.

Warming temperatures and high precipitation levels contribute to destructive wildfires, extensive property damage and costly flooding, as was recently seen in northern California and in the aftermath of the rain and resulting flooding from Hurricane Harvey in Houston.

Last week, he fought fires, saved people, and protected property from the destructive wildfires in Only the Brave (unfortunately, a non-starter at the box office).

But for us humans, because the film also zeros in on an obscure, isolated job like highway maintenance — Alvin (Paul Rudd) and Lance (Emile Hirsch) are responsible for applying all the road markings to a recently repaved section of road in the wake of a destructive wildfire that wiped out a good portion of forest land — there is not a lot to grab a hold of in terms of dramatic material.

The Bastrop County Complex fire was the most destructive wildfire in Texas history, striking areas of Bastrop County in September and October 2011.

Yet we've seen devastating drought and flooding in the Midwest and destructive wildfires in Colorado and California.

In 2011, more than 1,500 people lost their homes in Texas's most destructive wildfire.

In early May 2016, a destructive wildfire burned through Canada's Fort McMurray in the Northern Alberta region.

Intense droughts can lead to destructive wildfires, failed crops, and low water supplies, many of which are deeply affecting southern areas of the United States and other parts of the world.

The Waldo Canyon Fire of 2012 was the most destructive wildfire in the state's history.

Intense, destructive wildfires are burning throughout the state, and while September and October are the peak of the typical fire season in California, the number of fires exhibiting extreme behavior and «dangerous» rates of spread has been far higher than usual due to the ubiquity of tinder - dry, drought - cured brush and trees.

Take the United States, which during 2012 alone experienced the worst drought in decades, two of the most destructive wildfires in its history, and the unprecedented devastation from Superstorm Sandy.

Higher temperatures diminish crop yields, melt the mountain glaciers that feed rivers, generate more - destructive storms, increase the severity of flooding, intensify drought, cause more - frequent and destructive wildfires, and alter ecosystems everywhere.

This is a result of what Coloradans have lived through in recent years — season after season of widespread damaging hailstorms and the state's most destructive wildfires.

It has taken weeks to tackle the most deadly and destructive wildfires in California history, a series of fiery eruptions now being called the October Fire Siege.