Sentences with phrase «forest fire»

The «compounding effects» of climate change and natural weather fluctuations are «giving rise to this remarkable increase in forest fire activity,» said John Abatzoglou, a geographer at the University of Idaho who coauthored Monday's paper.

The finding was an estimate, with the researchers concluding global warming likely drove between 6 million acres and 16 million acres of forest fire.

Direct effects of climate change on trees and forests, such as warmer, wetter conditions improving forest productivity or warmer, drier conditions increasing tree mortality, will be secondary to the impacts of altered forest disturbance regimes, such as changes in forest fire behavior and area burned.

Temporal variations and change in forest fire danger in Europe for 1960 — 2012.

We use these data to calculate the US Burning Index38, the Canadian Fire Weather Index39 and the Australian (or McArthur) Forest Fire Danger Index40.

Devastating forest fire seasons in recent years have prompted research pointing to the need for more prescribed burns like this one.

Climatic stress increases forest fire severity across the western United States.

Potential forest fire danger over Northern Eurasia: changes during the 20th century.

The results show that, while deforestation rates are decreasing, forest fire counts have not seen a similar decline.

According to one study that looked at eight fuel aridity metrics in the Western U.S. and modeled climate change's effects on them, human - caused climate change accounted for about 55 percent of the observed increases in fuel aridity between 1979 and 2015 (Figure 6), and added an estimated 4.2 million hectares of forest fire area between 1984 and 2015.7 Based on all eight metrics, the Western U.S. experienced an average of 9 additional days per year of high fire potential due to climate change between 2000 and 2015, a 50 percent increase from the baseline of 17 days per year when looking back to 1979.

A tricked - out Gulfstream jet called HALO tackled 100 °C temperature swings and forest fire smoke to penetrate the storm clouds above Brazil

Fighting HIV with antibodies is like battling a forest fire with garden hoses.

Medler uses remote sensing technologies to document vegetation conditions and predict forest fire risk.

A morel mushroom emerges from the Yosemite National Park forest floor the spring following a forest fire.

By making neurons fire ahead of the cortical spreading depression, as if setting off a prescribed burn in the path of a forest fire, they found they could stop the wave of neurons from spreading, and thereby prevent seizures.

Authors of the paper, Reform Forest Fire Management, including Northern Arizona University School of Forestry Professor Pete Fulé, intended to raise awareness among stakeholders of the critical role of fire in forest management and to promote the use of fire on a larger scale.

Julia Laskin of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, and colleagues made their discovery using a specialised device to collect ultra-fine particles from the smoke of a forest fire.

On the far shore, embers of a forest fire glowed on the slopes of the Khamar - Daban range.

It has been 200 years since the last, large forest fire in Trillemarka - Rollagsfjell Nature Reserve.

Ana Sanchís, who is also a co-founder of Ubik, explains that they have seen how the social networks map in which people are talking about a specific real - time forest fire matches the perimeter marked by the authorities after fire.

In the paper, they liken the typical outbreak to a forest fire.

When a forest fire decimated more than 3,000 acres of Rice University - owned timberland in 2011, biogeochemist Carrie Masiello saw a silver lining in the blackened trees.

The findings track with the growing body of research on the impact of insects on forest fire severity, said Carolyn Sieg, a research plant ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service.

«Due to climate warming, we could be looking at their food resource declining over the next 100 years — or sooner if there's a catastrophic forest fire or a major bark beetle infestation.

«Climate change to increase forest fire danger in Europe.»

The study was the first to examine adaptation to forest fire danger on a pan-European scale.

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.

The researchers» discovery revealed that at the forest fire site, the plants are dominated by flora quite similar to the kind that begin forest recovery after a fire today.

«We were looking at the direct result of a 66 - million - year old forest fire, preserved in stone,» says Emily Bamforth, of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum and the study's first author.

The team's finding of ancient ecological recovery from a forest fire will help broaden scientists» understanding of biodiversity immediately before the mass extinction of dinosaurs.

«What a 66 - million - year old forest fire reveals about the last days of the dinosaurs.»

The molecular cages at the so - called Sudbury site might have been forged on Earth from the intense heat and pressure of the impact or in a common forest fire.

During an expedition in southern Saskatchewan, Canada, the team discovered the first fossil - record evidence of forest fire ecology — the regrowth of plants after a fire — revealing a snapshot of the ecology on earth just before the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.

In Germany, with vast tracts of forest, the Forest Fire Danger Index hit its highest possible level.

«Amazon forest fire risk to increase in 2013.»

Related sites Illegal logging operations described by Telapak Indonesia, an environmental group Monthly images of forest fire hotspots in Sumatra and Borneo on a site operated by Indonesia's Ministry of Forest and Estate Crops and the Japan International Cooperation Agency

So as crews fight the forest fire just outside NCAR's border, scientists at a facility that has enjoyed its idyllic perch along the Rocky Mountains for decades are wondering how severe the wildfire risk will be in the coming years.

That means cataloging everything from the creatures and vegetation that co-existed to the rainfall and forest fire patterns.

A rare case of forest fire smoke interacting with clouds in the Arctic in July 2012.

Adapted by other nations, NOAA, and the Weather Channel, Neilson's model is now used to forecast seasonal forest fire risks.

Other programs that got increases include global AIDS funding, Pell grants for college students, forest fire protection, and additional intelligence analysts at the FBI.

«It's a forest fire with a 100 - mile - per - hour wind behind it,» Burress told The New York Times.

Prior to 2015, the last major forest fire in Ulster County was in 2008 in Minnewaska State Park.

Around the globe, families can find themselves facing a flood... hurricane... forest fire... or another catastrophe.

When my son was 12 - days - old, a tree fell on a power line five miles from our home and started a forest fire.

I read recently in a study that was in the newspaper, that just ONE forest fire in CA makes more greenhouse gas than all of the cars, trucks, trains, factories, pollution, etc combined.

By Sunday night 155 bucks had been killed, one hunter had shot himself in the foot, a $ 12,500 forest fire was burning briskly, 50 citations for illegal fires had been handed out, another six had been given for illegal discharge of firearms within a quarter mile of campgrounds and roads.

Ridgewell deserves the criticism both as a player and the captain, but to say his effort is the worst is to point at a tree burning in a forest fire.

Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.»

As William Rowe points out, when a fawn burns to death in a forest fire and no human being ever knows about it, this apparently unnecessary evil does nothing to build the character of human beings.