Sentences with phrase «makes wildfires»

Global warming makes wildfires more likely and more destructive — as many scientific studies have concluded.

Global warming makes wildfires more likely and more destructive — as many scientific studies have concluded.

Researchers expect that as climate change makes wildfires more likely over the course of this century, deaths and illnesses attributed to pollution from wood smoke will rise too, even offsetting gains made from cleaning up emissions from industry.

Again, climate change doesn't cause the fires, but the dry timber, the droughts make the wildfires more damaging than they would have been.

But, like with drought, the fact that temperatures are steadily rising and making extreme heat more common could make wildfires like these more likely to occur in the future with the right conditions.

Professor David South, one of the top US experts on forestry, trashes claims that AGW is making wildfires worse.

Climate Change Is Making Wildfires Worse.

If making wildfires more dangerous and reducing the amount of carbon that is safely stored in these forests wasn't worrisome enough, now Katie Valentine at Think Progress notes another of the myriad ripple effects caused by these beetles: BEAR ATTACKS!

Not exact matches

Thick smoke and intense heat make it difficult for low - flying aircraft to capture the extent of a wildfire's damage.

Last year, for instance, it sent emergency drinking water to communities affected by California's wildfires, floods in Louisiana, and Hurricane Matthew, which made landfall in South Carolina.

And changes in the climate are making many of these wildfires worse.

It's probably how decisions will be made in the wake of Harvey, Irma, Maria, and this season's apocalyptic Western wildfires.

With catastrophic weather and wildfires making headlines throughout 2017, there should be no question as to whether your small business needs a disaster recovery plan.

When wildfires engulfed the area, Tracy's dialysis center lost power, making it impossible to treat her patients.

The campaign drove tens of thousands of people to Jamba Juice locations; every time someone used one of Wildfire's coupons to make a purchase, the smoothie chain could credit that customer to the promotion.

The town of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada made international news headlines in May, as a massive wildfire damaged homes and buildings.

«In the 2016 budget, the NDP also made reckless cuts to wildfire prevention and management programs.

The effort to clean up debris from the October wildfires has been made more complicated by confusion over just how «clean» the cleared lots must be before rebuilding can proceed.

It is in this complex of religiosity that the preaching of the gospel makes sense; it is this preparedness that has undergirded the spreading of the gospel like wildfire among African societies which had hitherto followed and practiced traditional religion.

Sheep also eat cover crops, dry grasses and other leaf material that can fuel wildfires, making the property more fire - resistant.

California Wildfires Threaten to Make Local Wine «Unpalatable»: There are fears in California's wine industry over the possible impact of raging wildfires and whether they could damage this year's grape yield, potentially affecting the state's multibillion dollar Wildfires Threaten to Make Local Wine «Unpalatable»: There are fears in California's wine industry over the possible impact of raging wildfires and whether they could damage this year's grape yield, potentially affecting the state's multibillion dollar wildfires and whether they could damage this year's grape yield, potentially affecting the state's multibillion dollar business.

I've made Homemade Oreos before, a Thomas Keller recipe that's been passed around the blogosphere like wildfire, but I wasn't too crazy about the results.

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief Trending Story: California's Nagging Smoke Taint Concerns Will «Californian wildfire smoke» be making it onto the tasting notes of the 2017 vintage?

Star Wars puns aside, the Senators attendance problems have made the rounds like wildfire this postseason.

Yet again a warning to anyone who will listen, people on twitter can make things up, and it can spread like wildfire as «fact».

Cuomo made an unscheduled visit to Suffolk County after declaring a state of emergency due to wildfires that burned for 24 hours and swept thousands of acres.

ORANGEBURG — While Rockland County volunteer firefighters have made some progress, they are still waging a full - scale battle against a wildfire that has engulfed a large area of Clausland Mountain and has sent smoke pouring across the Hudson River and into northern Rockland communities.

Supplemental Disaster Appropriations — Vote Passed (251 - 169, 12 Not Voting) Passage of the bill that would make further supplemental appropriations for fiscal 2018 for disaster assistance for Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria and wildfires that occurred in calendar year 2017.

For example, 10 of the 14 burned areas in the study, which include well - known wildfires like the Moonlight (2007) and Power (2009) fires, did not meet Forest Service stocking density thresholds for mixed conifer forests, making them good candidates for replanting and restoration efforts.

Fire crews are making an unheard - of scramble as a huge number of lightning - sparked wildfires continue to burn across drought - parched regions of Oregon and Washington.

Pinyon pine, an iconic and dominant species in the West, has suffered nearly 100 % mortality at sites in Colorado and Arizona, where climate change has made trees more susceptible to bark beetle outbreaks that in turn result in increased wildfires.

In contrast, wildfires are much more unpredictable, making it difficult to predict who needs to evacuate and when.

Since the largest portion of individuals affected by wildfires base their final decision on physical cues, the researchers recommend that communication to this population should focus on how to appropriately assess physical wildfire cues and the challenges of making an accurate assessment.

Drought will make farming and ranching tougher, increase the frequency and intensity of wildfires, and could drive many plant and animal species to extinction.

DESIGNING FOR DISASTER The National Building Museum examines methods used by engineers to make buildings resistant to wildfires and other natural hazards.

The random timing and location of wildfires mitigate these dynamics, making it ideal for McCoy and Zhao's research.

«Substantial proportions literally say that they believe global warming made specific extreme weather events worse, such as Harvey and Irma and Maria, such as wildfires out West, such as the extreme heat wave that grounded planes in Phoenix.»

The lack of water made the region's forests super-dry, triggering wildfires in parts of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Do severe wildfires make forests in the western United States more susceptible to future bark beetle outbreaks?

Cooler weather helped firefighters make significant gains on Saturday against a massive wildfire in Southern California, as crews cut containment lines around nearly 50 percent of the blaze.

«It's possible that the mobility of charcoal on the landscape and it's tendency to become concentrated in low - lying spots could make it more likely the charcoal from wildfires becomes buried and incorporated deep in soils and that these deposits act as a kind of charcoal reservoir that releases charcoal into the soil over long time spans.»

«By prescribing the effects of human - made climate change and observed global ocean temperatures, our model can reproduce the observed shifts in weather patterns and wildfire occurrences.»

Wildfires, which are on the rise throughout the west as a result of prolonged drought and climate change, can alter soil properties and make it more vulnerable to erosion.

The wildfires storming California have been four years in the making, as the drought, thought to be heavily influenced by climate change, has been starving California's forests and mountains of water and snow, turning once - lush woods into crackling tinder that has ignited in explosive and unexpected ways.

Three massive hurricanes, severe storms and wildfires across the U.S. caused more than $ 306 billion in damage last year, making 2017 the most expensive year for climate disasters on record.

Some researchers suspect that Neandertals had specialized knowledge of fire control and used it to make adhesives; others contend that Neandertals only exploited the remnants of wildfires.

Wildfires are nothing new, but a complex combination of climate change, forest management practices, and development patterns are making them bigger and more damaging.

One of the greatest concerns with wildfires is their impact on air quality and associated health consequences; PM2.5 is just one of the pollutants in wildfire smoke, but its small size makes it a well - known threat to people's health.

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We need to invest much more in wildfire science, climate change adaptation, and in making forest communities more resilient to fire.