Sentences with phrase «massive wildfires»

The state's ongoing drought has helped spark an intense heat wave that's almost literally off the charts, helping to spark massive wildfires and play havoc with the nation's food system.

Australian firefighters battled massive wildfires in bushland around Sydney on Wednesday, but hot weather that could have caused a catastrophic mega-fire did not materialize, allowing authorities to tell some evacuated residents it was safe to return to home.

The result was an outbreak of massive wildfires.

The hills of southern California, stripped bare by massive wildfires, could liquefy under relentless rains

Likewise, Russia's 2010 heatwave increased the mortality rate by 56,000, and helped spawn massive wildfires destroying one - fifth of the country's globally - important wheat crop.

NOAA has launched an emergency response and investigation, employing the same approach adopted for other federal emergencies like massive wildfires — complete with an incident command system spearheaded by federal personnel who coordinate a response across state lines.

One by one, massive wildfires ignited through Chile's bone - dry woods — scorching hillsides, decimating more than 100 vineyards, and resulting in the tragic loss of four firefighters.

As science settles on the ways in which climate change drives extreme weather events like Superstorm Sandy, massive wildfires in the west, extended droughts that are causing water shortages or once - in - a-thousand-year flood events that no one could have imagined until recently, the public gets it.

As the climate changes and California's vast wilderness dries and dies, ever - growing swaths of the Golden State are at risk of replicating the same sorts of massive wildfires...

Little did they know that their community would be profoundly affected the next day by massive wildfires, forcing an evacuation of its 7,000 residents and ultimately destroying about 40 per cent of the town.

A searing heat wave struck Moscow in late June 2010, spawning massive wildfires, killing tens of thousands, and cutting Russia's wheat crop by 40 %, contributing to a sharp spike in world food prices.

As hundreds of firefighters and some two dozen air tankers battle Canada's massive wildfires, scientists and other experts say prolonged modern droughts and climate change are creating a new perfect storm of super fires and other extreme weather events.

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

Two years after a massive wildfire ripped through Fort McMurray, the rebuild is not done yet and frustrations over insurance issues continue to flare up.

Losing your homes in a massive wildfire is God's will.

Together, the fearless team battles a massive wildfire and Dusty learns what it takes to become a true hero.

Funky Fluff is doing something totally awesome to help support the Fort McMurray community following the devastation left behind by a massive wildfire.

The motorcycle is useless now, damaged beyond repair nearly a year ago in the massive wildfire that swept through this neighborhood.

More than 100 state and local emergency personnel were fighting a massive wildfire Sunday in the Sam's Point Preserve in southwestern Ulster County, where the fire had already engulfed roughly 300 acres.

After weeks of battling three massive wildfires, crews are expected this week to finally squelch blazes that have burned houses and millions of acres of forest in southern and eastern Arizona, driving thousands of residents from their homes.

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.

Airing Tuesday, Feb. 3 as part of the «American Experience» series, «The Big Burn» tells the story of a massive wildfire in the Northern Rocky Mountains that tested the mettle of the embryonic Forest Service and set the course for wildfire management for the rest of the 20th century.

All of this is happening while we are evacuating one of our shelters from a massive wildfire, putting our Grass Valley sanctuary over capacity.

The evacuation was the first for the organization since the massive wildfires of 1998 forced critters and their caretakers to huddle at the fairgrounds near DeLand for more than a week, according to executive director James Noe.

Together, the fearless team battles a massive wildfire and Dusty learns what it takes to become a true hero.

McCarty, who has been obsessed with watercolor and its ephemerality since a massive wildfire burned down her home and studio in 1993, creates her work with wet - into - wet on loose sheets of watercolor paper.

Now if you were to strip the surface of the planet of it's vegetation in a massive wildfire, then watch the silicates, solid carbon, phosphates (Pot Ash) and iron oxides run off into the ocean where the phytoplankton can thrive on the added nutrients and be shaded under the light colored high altitude ash for a few years, now you are talking.

That's tiny compared to the massive wildfires California, but much larger than typical fires in Greenland.

There, near Prince George, at Norman Lake, a massive wildfire erupted earlier this week.

While communities bordering the Atlantic have been battered by record - breaking storms — which scientists say were intensified by climate change — massive wildfires have ravaged the northwestern United States in recent weeks.

We see the impacts in our everyday lives, from extreme superstorms, to heat waves, to massive wildfires and droughts.

A massive wildfire north of Sacramento, California, has prompted thousands of evacuations as it torn through three counties in the drought - stricken state.

Massive wildfires are raging across Southern California, threatening thousands of homes and cultural landmarks like the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

The Santa Anas also set the stage for the massive wildfires in Napa and Sonoma earlier this year.

Republican factory owners killed your family and friends in the catastrophic blizzards, floods, tornadoes, massive wildfires and other climate change that has been wiping out the bible - belt.

In 2012, the U.S. experienced record - breaking heat, a historic drought, massive wildfires in the West, and Hurricane Sandy.

A massive wildfire in Colorado has forced the evacuation of 36,000 people, destroyed over 300 homes, and killed two people.

Recently, many parts of California, Montana, and Washington have been hit by massive wildfires.