Sentences with phrase «during wildfires»

At its worst, Beijing air quality has approached levels only seen in the US during wildfires.

A recent study in the International Journal of Wildland Fire closed in on the optimal strategy: «The role of defensible space for residential structure protection during wildfires.»

Officers also respond to individual and large - scale emergency situations, from a dog trapped in a canyon to animal evacuations during wildfires.

In fact, embers like those shown in the picture are the main cause of houses catching fire during wildfires.

We found a clear learning and adaptation «signal» during wildfires» anniversaries, which stood out against the «noise» of wildfire reporting over the rest of our sample.

During wildfires, both heat radiation and convection are happening simultaneously.

Another customer recently reached out about having the ashes from his home, which burned down during the wildfires in Ventura County, California, earlier this year, put into a ring — which Archer says the company will be able to execute, thanks to wood's high carbon content.

The effects of global warming on temperature, precipitation levels, and soil moisture are turning many of our forests into kindling during wildfire season.

Not exact matches

Years of cultivating that reputation meant that when WestJet stepped up efforts to assist with evacuations from Fort McMurray, Alberta during its devastating 2016 wildfire, it felt like a natural step for the company, not a cynical public relations maneuver.

The insurer told the market at the time significant weather catastrophes including Californian wildfires and December storms in Australia during the fourth quarter, coupled with some adverse development of Hurricane Maria, added around $ US130 million to the net cost of catastrophes.

The evacuation of more than 88,000 Albertans sparked by the wildfires in Fort McMurray dominated the attention of our political leaders during this session.

When Jennifer Torrey arrived at a large wildfire - victim center in Santa Rosa during the October wildfires, the catering chef was tasked with turning meals for 2,000 people three times a day while working 16 - hour shifts.

Sales of the Mikayla Butchart's «Roseilience» pin generates $ 35,000 - plus for relief efforts during the North Bay wildfires of October.

During the 2016 election cycle, fake news sites spread like wildfire on Facebook and other social media platforms.

Bacca was actually linked with the Gunners for a short period during the summer, but unlike the other links which spread like wildfire, the rumour surrounding the Columbian went quiet very quickly and suddenly he was linked to fellow Londoners West Ham.

For families living in disaster - prone areas, where the threat of a hurricane, tornado, flood, earthquake, or wildfire is constant, especially during some times of the year, the realization is that it could happen to them next.

«The work of DEC's wildfire - fighting crew is a prime example of how states can work together and share resources during times of adversity,» said DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos.

The area of wildfires in Borneo during drought years turns out to be ten times larger than during non-drought years, an international research team reports in Nature Climate Change of this week.

In 2010, we went to Mongolia for a month, but in actuality we only had 10 to 15 days in the field, during which time we hoped to study the impact of climate change on wildfires in some of the country's larch forests.

The analysis illustrates that wildfires occur annually, that is, also in non-drought years, but that amplification of wildfires occurs during drought years.

During the hour - long slide show, Holly summarized the effects of climate change in Yosemite — including shrinking waterfalls, intensifying wildfires, and vanishing species.

From the bomb - induced firestorm in Hamburg, Germany during World War II to the most recent wildfires in the American West and elsewhere, Fox takes a detailed look at the dynamics of catastrophic fires (two fires 10 miles apart can travel in opposite directions) and explains why new insights on plume behavior may help researchers see beyond the chaotic veneer of a wildfire to discern underlying, more predictable forces that guide its behavior.

Using sophisticated atmospheric and climate models, the researchers estimated the levels of PM2.5 directly attributable to wildfires during a recent six - year period, 2004 to 2009, as well as under projected future climate change conditions (2046 - 2051).

That can range from volcano ash plumes, to dust storms, to pollution outbreaks, to wildfires, like the California Rim Fire in September 2013 that choked Yosemite National Park during the busy Labor Day weekend.

These questions sent us digging into a stack of 1,702 news articles published by local media in Colorado before, during and after the 2012 wildfire season — the state's worst in history.

The NIFC calculates that nearly 39,000 homes — more than 3,000 per year — were lost to wildfires from 2000 - 2012 and that federal, state and local agencies spent an average of $ 4.7 billion annually during that period on WUI fire suppression.

Wildfires are an annual occurrence during the dry season in Indonesia and are responsible up to 10 per cent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions each year.

We saw this during the estimated twelve thousand wildfires that occurred in the Amazon during the drought of 2010.

From AD 1300 to 1600, wildfires ignited during late summer, with about 5 - 10 ignitions per quarter century, generally occurring during warm, dry summers.

And the destructive power of nature was on full display during hurricanes, earthquakes and wildfires that pay no heed to human life or property.

Holstius, D. M., C. E. Reid, B. M. Jesdale, and R. Morello - Frosch, 2012: Birth weight following pregnancy during the 2003 southern California wildfires.

The Regional Burn Center receives a special grant from the philanthropic organization Las Patronas in recognition of its community service during the October wildfires.

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Much below average snowfall and snowpack was observed across the West, which exacerbated the drought and wildfire season during summer and autumn.

For example, the extreme drought that gripped Indonesia during summer and fall (leading to an intense wildfire season) was caused by a dearth of rainfall linked to El Niño and higher temperatures linked to climate change, one study in the report found.

While the wildfires have diminished some, the heat is forecast to return to Queensland and other areas during the weekend into early next week, and the fire danger remains «extreme» in s... Read More

During this time, the years with the hottest spring and summer temperatures were typically the years with the most large wildfires.

Biomass burning aerosols observed in northern Finland during the 2010 wildfires in Russia.

During the summer of 2011, as I planned my first research trip to Cochise County, Arizona, for my upcoming novel APACHE PORTAL, three wildfires raged out of control across the historic Apache homeland.

Availability The HTC Desire S, HTC Wildfire S and HTC Incredible S smartphones, will be broadly available to customers across major European and Asian markets during Q2 2011.

Catastrophic weather damage happens all the time, especially during hurricane season along the coasts or wildfire season in the west.

The central bank had predicted that the economy would contract at an annual rate of 1.0 per cent during the second quarter due to the damage caused by the wildfires.

SRT members help pets who've been evacuated during natural disasters like floods and wildfires, and support Humane Law Enforcement officers in recovering animals from terrible conditions.

The responsibility became clear when Makenna's family was ordered to evacuate their home during the devastating wildfires in Lake County this past summer.

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

Nearly all the animals rescued by the county Department of Animal Services during the recent wildfires are now back home with their owners.

Large animal clinicians developed the first disaster preparedness plans to include animals and animal rescue protocols - the team has deployed volunteers and other support during Northern California floods in 1997, Hurricane Floyd, Hurricane Katrina and the wildfires of 2006 in Yolo County, CA.

In preparation for what is expected to be a bad wildfire season, San Diego Humane Society volunteers trained to rescue livestock during fires and other natural disasters Sunday.

During last year's hurricanes and California wildfires, the ASPCA relocated more than 1,600 animals as part of our disaster response efforts.

During the current California wildfires, however, VERT has added an unexpected species to its long list of saved animals — koi fish.