Sentences with phrase «forest fires over»

And you can't burn it as a fuel — countless forest fires over the millennia have failed to ignite it.

The reason could be that plant defenses against pathogens gradually weaken after a fire, Moritz and Odion speculate — for instance, from stiffer competition among plants as they grow, decreased chemical defenses as they age, or depletion of soil nutrients.The findings suggest that California's fight against forest fires over many decades may have precipitated or accelerated the outbreak, and that perhaps controlled burning could be used to halt it, the authors say.

Not exact matches

After a forest fire destroyed his ranch, David Old thought his flooring business was over.

And literally adding fuel to the fire, more development has been taking place near U.S. forests over the years.

The building is resuming now that the hurricanes and forest fires are over.

But whether it's the deficit lie, the HST betrayal, or forest fire dishonesty, the B.C. Liberal government continues to choose budget dishonesty over transparency.

I stopped spraying the fire, and ran over to start spraying the forest, trying to keep the tree branches and bushes from igniting.

Over time, they have become skilled at rating the level of threat like rangers adjusting those Smokey the Bear fire danger signs in the national forests: «Today's Mom - fire threat level is Green.»

Councilmembers Melinda Katz (D - Forest Hills) and David Yassky (D - Brooklyn) each received endorsements over the weekend in their bids for city comptroller, with Katz picking up support from the Uniformed Fire Officer Association and Yassky receiving the backing of state Senators John Sampson (D - Brooklyn) and Eric Adams (D - Brooklyn).

This theory has been borne out extensively in the Southwest, where fires over the past two decades have shifted large sections of landscape from coniferous forest to shrub and grassland (ClimateWire, June 28, 2012).

The plantations are being developed on areas of highly degraded, effectively second - growth forests that have been logged repeatedly over more than 40 years; large parts burned during the major fires that swept Sabah in the early 1980s.

The researchers note that in Europe, over 95 % of all forest fires are caused by humans, including negligence when smoking cigarettes, using campfires and other open fires that are not put out properly, and even arson.

During this event, the aerosols stayed close to the surface due to the presence of a anticyclone hovering over the study region at sea - level, «reducing the amount of shortwave irradiance reaching the surface and causing greater radiative cooling,» states Obregón, who likens the effects of desert dust with those resulting from certain forest fires or episodes of high pollution.

«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.

Scientists have already linked aerosol emissions to increases in lightning over areas of the Amazon prone to forest fires (pdf) as well as regions of China with thick air pollution.

This suggests that the role that deforestation plays in sparking forest fires is diminishing over time, says Aragão:

Whitlock has published over 180 scientific papers on these topics and her research has been supported by grant - funding from the National Science Foundation, Joint Fire Sciences Program, National Park Service, USDA Forest Service, and Department of Energy.

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

Over time, these missions can help give scientists clues to how much carbon is being absorbed by growing forests, and how it's being released into the atmosphere through forest fires and deforestation.

South America's tropical and subtropical forests, grasslands and savannas have experienced tremendous fire weather season length changes, with a median increase of 33 days over the last 35 years (Fig. 3a and Table 6).

A luminescent wall known as «The Shimmer» — a mysterious phenomenon that resembles a cross between a forest fire and a lava lamp — has fallen over part of an unidentified coastal area, creating «Area X.» Several teams of explorers have been sent in to Area X to figure out what's going on, but only one person, Kane (Oscar Isaac), has returned alive.

In this exclusive video for «Wading,» Explosions in the Sky and Wingo let their haunting instrumental wash over a fire - ravaged forest, a nod to the isolated setting of Prince Avalanche.

M.L. Buchman is the author of over 40 novels, his latest being Flash of Fire, part of his Firehawks series, which follows the men and women who fly forest - firefighting helicopters.

If a hoist is taken out of service we get very uncomfortable because one of our prime reasons for having them is to rescue our own firefighters from getting burned over by a forest fire or for getting an injured person in a remote area out for medical attention.

- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».

Fire up 2011's Skyward Sword and you can play through a Hyrule that hides some treats, to be sure, but the story will drag you over every sand dune and forest glade first before letting you snoop around.

Sure, it may have rained a bit of ash from the nearby forest fires, and I may have stayed in a house without fans or A / C for over a week, but at least there weren't any flight cancellations over a bombogenesis.

For example, in the Gravity Falls track a forest fire will break out during the race, making trees fall over to block off some paths, and in the Big Hero 6 track Yokai will attack the city towards the end of the race and you'll need to avoid Nanobot swarms that pop up on the road.

Once ignited, these fires are particularly difficult to extinguish despite extensive rains, weather changes or firefighting attempts, and can persist for long periods of time (months, years), spreading deep (5 meters) and over extensive areas of forest subsurface.

sheesh 2 DEGREES just look at the s ** t we are getting at 0.8 degrees Its like goodbye coral reefs, goodbye amazon rainforest, goodbye himalayan glaciers that provide water to 40 % worlds population (lot of poeple in china), goodbye east india monsoon rains needed to grow crops, hello more droughts, hello more forest fires, hello more heat waves, hello more stronger huricanes / typhones / cyclones, hello more floods (because warmer oceans have even more water evaporated from them turned into clouds and blown over land so even more rain pours down at once), hello more jellyfish (they thrive in acidified oceans because of CO2 absorbtion).

Concerns over permanence are rooted in the idea that emission reductions are potentially reversible due to forests» vulnerability to fires, pest outbreaks, changes in management, and other natural and anthropogenic disturbances.

Record forest fires are now occurring during all seasons and all over the planet.

These frequent fires, over several centuries, created diverse patterns of forest species, varied ages of tree species and tree species replacing one another in succession.

The government program includes a moratorium on expansion of cultivation, control and prevention of forest fires, assessment of degradation impacts to determine future sustainable land use, implementation of sustainable land use, conservation of peatlands, a focus on resolving conflicts over resource issues, and enhancement of good governance.

Abstract — 2008 Climate and wildfires in the North American boreal forest... Climate controls the area burned through changing the dynamics of large - scale teleconnection patterns (Pacific Decadal Oscillation / El Niño Southern Oscillation and Arctic Oscillation, PDO / ENSO and AO) that control the frequency of blocking highs over the continent at different time scales......... Since the end of the Little Ice Age, the climate has been unusually moist and variable: large fire years have occurred in unusual years, fire frequency has decreased and fire — climate relationships have occurred at interannual to decadal time scales...... http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/363/1501/2315.short ----------------------

A new study says that human - induced climate change has doubled the area affected by forest fires in the U.S. West over the last 30 years.

The early escalation in California grass fires fits the pattern of blazes that by 2050 will double the annual acreage that burned over the last 30 years, forest service officials reported.

Investigating impacts of forest fires in Alaska and western Canada on regional weather over the northeastern United States using CAM5 global simulations to constrain transport to a WRF - Chem regional domain, Journal of Geophysical Research — Atmospheres, 199 (12): 7515 - 7536.

Research by Park Williams, a Center for Climate and Life Fellow, shows that human - induced climate change doubled the area affected by forest fires in the American West over the last 30 years.

Oceania also reported a net loss of forest (about 700 000 ha per year over the period 2000 — 2010), mainly due to large losses of forests in Australia, where severe drought and forest fires have exacerbated the loss of forest since 2000.

Completion of treatments in the first analysis area of the 4FRI project could have a multiplying effect on maintaining forest resilience if the thinning itself allows for increased use of wildland fire or prescribed fire over many more hectares.

Over 100 years ago we began putting forest fires out, and extra forest fuel has built up, which now cause high - intensity, catastrophic forest fires.

The abandoned town of Anyox burned down in 1942 and started a forest fire that cleared out much of the damaged trees over a very large area.

«Since I fought fire in Alaska over 30 years ago, the planet has rapidly warmed and wildfire conditions have noticeably deteriorated,» commented Nicky Sundt, a former U.S. Forest Service smokejumper who now works on climate policy at the World Wildlife Fund, by email.

Old forests that are protected and allowed to grow and recovery for long periods after fires and hurricanes would store carbon over time, more so than if those same lands were managed as agricultural fields or short - rotation tree farms.

Spatially explicit fire - climate history of the boreal forest - tundra (Eastern Canada) over the last 2000 years

These slash & burn forest fires are provoked by an El Niño - induced drought that is set to continue over the months ahead.

With respect to why there was a significant increase in tree density over the past several decades, Dolanc offers that the changes in the density and composition of lower - elevation forests are consistent with fire suppression; but that the density increases in high - elevation vegetation types (subalpine forests generally don't burn) are «more likely to be caused by changing climate.»

And taken globally, increases in tropical forest carbon may be at least partly explained not by carbon fertilization, but by a recovery of carbon after past disturbances such as fire (both natural and anthropogenic) and land clearing by humans even centuries earlier - a factor that will reduce sink strength over time as forests recover.

Massive fires have created headlines and caused widespread damage from Siberia to Alaska to the Northwest Territories to Alberta recently, all part of a trend of increased fire activity unheard of in the boreal forest over the past 10,000 years.