Sentences with phrase «largest area burned»

And it is the third largest area burned by wildfires in the last decade through late July.

Worldwide, vegetation fires are showing a trend toward longer burning periods, increased fire severity, larger areas burned and increased (mostly human caused) frequency — with all of these factors contributing to more damaging environmental impacts, higher shares of emissions and increasing socioeconomic costs, including greater threats to human health and security.

Not exact matches

Brazil, Indonesia, many parts of Africa and Canada typically experience larger wildfires (measured by area burned) than the United States on a yearly average.

Sonoma County's largest city wants to streamline new housing projects, including multifamily apartments, childcare centers and homeless shelters, even in areas never burned in the October wildfires.

In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large, coal - burning electric plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be suffered by a predominantly native American population, but the power generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.

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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 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.

Wilderness areas, steep slopes and other forest areas that don't have the roads for large vehicles are more likely to be treated with controlled burns, rather than mechanical thinning.

An area near Acre, Brazil, shows the progression of forest to grazing land on a large cattle ranch: intact forest (left), forest being burned to make pasture (top), newly cleared forest (bottom) and grass ready to graze (right).

Gaveau said analysis by his organization showed the fires on the two largest burnt areas in Indonesia's Riau province on Sumatra island during February and March this year were either started outside concessions, or on land occupied by small - scale operators within concessions.

But for patients with burns involving larger areas, the lack of suitable tissues for coverage may severely limit the reconstructive options.

18 The Black Dragon Fire of 1987, the largest wildfire in modern times, burned some 20 million acres across China and the Soviet Union, an area about the size of South Carolina.

Scientists are concerned that butterflies with small, isolated populations may be in severe peril if their habitats are burned too frequently and in large blocks at a time, which can mean that butterfly refugia — unburned areas that provide refuge — are limited.

The increasing frequency and area burned by large fires is linked to human - caused climate change as well as other environmental changes.

Thus, wood burning for residential heating, and the resulted particle emission, may have a much larger impact on air quality in Norwegian urban areas than previously thought.

The metric most frequently used to quantify this trend is area burned, or how large in terms of acres or hectares a given fire's scorching fingertips managed to reach before firefighters or rain put them out.

The drier — or more arid — the vegetation is, the larger the resulting area that burns and the more severe the fires can be.

Extreme fires burn larger areas and their flames jump from forest floors to incinerate canopies, producing heavy black smoke and killing mature trees.

We found that the average number of large wildfires burning each year and the total area burning in these fires have both increased dramatically since the 1970s.

Large wildfires are now 10 times more common than they used to be and the area burned is up to 45 times greater in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.

According to the National Interagency Fire Center, with nearly two months still to go in the fire season, the total area already burned this year is 30 percent more than in an average year, and fires have consumed more than 8.6 million acres, an area larger than the state of Maryland.

In part because fire records are much more reliable for large fires compared to small fires, and also because large fires are more destructive, Westerling and colleagues focused only on large fires (at least 1000 acres in size); by doing this they eliminated over 99 % of the total reported fires, yet could still include 73 % of the total area burned.

The research finds that, over the past few decades, large areas of forest and savannah have been converted to cropland, meaning that the overall area that could be burned by wildfires has decreased.

The years with the earliest spring snowmelt, which was one - third of the total number of years we studied, account for more than 70 percent of the area burned in large forest wildfires, and 43 percent of the area burned in nonforest fires.

However, the number of large (greater than 1,000 acres or 400 hectares) wildfires has been growing since the 1980s, and the area burned in these fires has grown even more.

I've been diagnosed with IBS, about 4 years ago I started having bad inflammation and burning in one area of my large intestine — around the sigmoid area.

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► Lightning strikes a lighthouse and we see a close - up of gel spreading and becoming larger at the base of the building where a small fire burns briefly; a wall of gel rises like a curtain from a jungle forest into the sky, making noises like muttering and muffled roars as we hear that the phenomenon is spreading and destroying all species on Earth; five scientists armed with military rifles enter the area to find trees that have become covered with flowers, woody plants have grown into human shapes covered with blossoms, the bodies of three missing soldiers have been engulfed with vines, moss, and lichens that have grown out of the bodies and the head of a soldier is found in a path (we see no blood or facial expression).

He still has one medium and one large area of third degree burns that has resisted treatment.

But the burn covered such a large area that it looked unlikely that it would fully close without surgery.

The large living area features a wide, wood burning fireplace, a comfortable sofa and subtle lighting.

The living area features comfortable furnishings, wood - burning fireplace, 15 foot ceilings, a well - appointed large gourmet kitchen with plenty of counter space, and dining area for six guests.

Master bedroom with king bed, sitting area in front of stone gas - burning fireplace, dresser, flat - screen TV, large walk - in closet, floor - to - ceiling windows, French doors opening to private balcony.

Master bedroom with king bed, stone faced gas - burning fireplace with sitting area, floor to ceiling windows, large walk - in closet, dresser, flat - screen TV, French doors opening to private balcony with mountain views and overlooking the Village Commons.

Master bedroom with king bed, sitting area in front of stone gas - burning fireplace, dresser, flat - screen TV, large walk - in closet, floor - to - ceiling windows, French doors opening to private balcony overlooking the resort and Village Commons.

They burn large areas and destroy habitat for money.

The Dancer comes complete with dual voltage charging stations, large camera set - up and storage areas, digital download and burn facilities, and also features film - making capabilities.

Second floor has a spacious master suite with separate sitting area, wood burning fireplace, walk - in closet, large solarium and master bath with spa tub and separate steam shower.

All ground floor level (STB 3 star) is a traditional detached cottage with large sitting room (wood burning stove) with dining area, one large bedroom with kingsize and single bed, walk - in shower room and well equipped kitchen.

The wonderful Swiss / German style decor, wood burning stove and large wooden dining area give this hideaway a real «Chalet» feel.

The main living space has a large seating area, kitchenette, dining table and wood - burning stove.

The lodge has a wood - burning stone fireplace that measures 26 feet, a sun - room area with wicker furniture and a bar, patio doors for the large deck with umbrella tables and chairs, and a Theater Room with a HDTV, fireplace, and lounge seating.

This large Manor deluxe room has a queen - size four - poster bed in front of a wood burning fireplace and a sitting area with a queen - size sleep sofa.

The home has a large open kitchen with a gas stove, an expansive living area with a wood - burning fireplace, and hardwood floors.

In the largest city called Armaita was a great rebellion, after years of fighting all that is left of the great city is now crumbling ruins and the surrounding areas all but a burnt and ashen wasteland, but this area is not yet deserted now occupied by the last remaining rebels and other miscreants.

Using only an easel pad, markers, a map, and their collective knowledge, participants will collaboratively place each of America's 125 largest metropolitan statistical areas into a five - tiered hierarchy, and answer, once and for all, decades - old burning questions: is New York really America's only world - class art center?

However, if one considers the enormous increase of reactive nitrogen in our biosphere, due to the use of synthesized fertilizer and the burning of fossil fuels, its impact is not part of the analysis, even tough this increase shows up in the eutrophication (nutrient enrichment) of open waters all over the world, resulting in excess algae, in some areas causing large algae blooms (as where they are going to hold the sailing regattas during the Olympics), red tides and dead zone, as the 8000 square mile dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.

Some large high severity fires occurred in these areas during the 1950s drought, and subsequent droughts, but the largest total areas burned in forests were an order of magnitude smaller than the largest fires today.

Moreover, we find that surface fires burn additional large areas of standing forest, the destruction of which is normally not documented.