Sentences with phrase «massive wildfires in»

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

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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

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Mr. Amper said the county should take «proactive» steps to reduce wildfires by burning roughly 1,000 acres over the course of the year in smaller fires to prevent massive fires from swelling out of control.

«The devastation we have seen in the last month not only from massive hurricanes but from record heat waves and wildfires should be a wake - up call for elected officials.

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.

Wildfires in Indonesia were probably the culprit behind a massive die - off on distant reefs, researchers report in tomorrow's issue of Science.

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.

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.

The record - breaking 2017 wildfires in the US generated massive thunderstorms that pumped as much smoke into the stratosphere as a volcanic eruption

Wildfires in Indonesia have been known to release massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere over short periods of time.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

June 21, 2012 • Crews in Colorado are struggling to get the upper hand on the massive High Park wildfire that's destroyed more homes and property than any blaze in the state's history.

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.

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.

(Large sections of Russia and Eastern Europe are blanketed by smoke from massive Siberian wildfires in today's LANCE MODIS satellite shot.)

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

(Massive outbreak of permafrost wildfires in Russia this week have left up to 34 villages in smoldering ruins.

That tally does not include the massive toll from this year's three major hurricanes and wildfires, expected to be among the most costly in the nation's history.

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.

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.

Climate change also appears to be driving drying in neighboring South American states like Brazil and Bolivia — where severe droughts and related warming are drying up massive lakes and helping to worsen the wildfire situation in the Amazon Rainforest.

New research predicts that global warming will cause a massive rise in global wildfires, particularly on Australia's east coast and in the Mediterranean basin.

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

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 addition to the much - covered heatwaves, wildfires, and droughts in the U.S., killer floods struck India, the worst drought yet recorded plagued South Korea, and massive forest fires swept through Siberia to name just a feIn addition to the much - covered heatwaves, wildfires, and droughts in the U.S., killer floods struck India, the worst drought yet recorded plagued South Korea, and massive forest fires swept through Siberia to name just a fein the U.S., killer floods struck India, the worst drought yet recorded plagued South Korea, and massive forest fires swept through Siberia to name just a few.

The exceptional heat over such a long duration, combined with poor air quality from wildfires increased deaths by at least 56,000 in Moscow and other parts of western Russia, according to Munich Reinsurance, and led to massive crop failures in the region.

It's because of the way the phenomenon tends to drive droughts across the tropics, which in turn leads forests, like those in Indonesia, to lose carbon in wildfires — which happened at a massive scale in 2015.

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