Sentences with phrase «more wildland fires»

Extreme heat waves, droughts, more wildland fires, coastal flooding and erosion, and other forms of habitat destruction are among possible scenarios in the coming decades.

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And the European Union stopped funding basic science related to fire dynamics and wildland - urban interface fires almost a decade ago, focusing instead on applied technological projects and more general research on natural disasters.

In other words, there is a large role that wildland management can play in limiting the severity of wildfires in western U.S. forests even as the climate warms and conditions become right for larger and potentially more severe fires.

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«The warmer the Earth gets, the more fire we get, and the more fire we get, the more greenhouse gases we get,» says Mike Flannigan, director of the Western Partnership for Wildland Fire Science at the University of Alberta in Edmonfire we get, and the more fire we get, the more greenhouse gases we get,» says Mike Flannigan, director of the Western Partnership for Wildland Fire Science at the University of Alberta in Edmonfire we get, the more greenhouse gases we get,» says Mike Flannigan, director of the Western Partnership for Wildland Fire Science at the University of Alberta in EdmonFire Science at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

The warmer we get, the more fires we seem to get,» Mike Flannigan, a wildland fire expert at the University of Alberta, said.

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.

A key reason that wildfires have become more destructive, and fighting them more expensive, is that millions of Americans have made a conscious decision to move close to wildlands that are susceptible to fire — known by the infelicitous phrase the wildland - urban interface, or WUI.

Arnold Schwarzenegger joins an elite team of wildland firefighters as they battle a new breed of forest fire, one made more deadly by climate change.