Sentences with phrase «of area burned»

Assessing the response of area burned to changing climate in western boreal North America using a Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) approach

Balshi, M. S., D. A. McGuire, P. Duffy, M. Flannigan, J. Walsh, and J. Melillo, 2008: Assessing the response of area burned to changing climate in western boreal North America using a Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) approach.

More than 63 % of the area burned over the last 2200 cal.

Research published last year attributed nearly half of all area burned in the western U.S. to climate change alone.

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.

That earlier paper concluded that human - caused climate warming accounts for a doubling of area burned in western U.S. forests in recent decades.

Researchers found that human - caused climate change accounts for 55 percent of the increase in drying out of Western forests, a major factor in wildfires, and has led to a doubling of the area burned.

Not exact matches

Burned out homes in the Abasand area of Fort McMurray on May 9, after wildfire forced the evacuation of the town.

It's so tempting to be a control freak in terms of the area you know best, but all that will do is distract you from the myriad other CEO responsibilities and burn out your sales leader.

A bomb of this strength would incinerate everything within 3.58 square miles while causing third - degree burns in an area up to 2,250 square miles.

These blasts would have incinerated everything within 1.77 square miles of their epicenters while causing third - degree burns up to an area of 1,090 square miles.

A bomb of this size would incinerate everything within 2.11 square miles while causing third - degree burns in an area of 1,309 square miles.

Nearly two dozen wildfires spread through the counties of Napa, Sonoma, and six others last week, destroying an estimated 5,700 structures, and burning over 200,000 acres of land — a collective area roughly the size of New York City.

This overhead view of an unspecified residential area shows how one neighborhood was burned to the ground, with mounds of gray ash being all that remains of the destroyed homes.

The number of wildfires touching more than 50,000 acres has been increasing over the last 30 years, and the total acreage burned this decade is more than double the area burned in the 1990s.

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

The landscape is littered with financially healthy entrepreneurs who crashed and burned in another area of life.

Participatory art installations dot the landscape of the «playa,» as the area used for the festival is called, and the weeklong celebration culminates in a massive structure of some sort being burned.

He calls the private area, filled with about 30 Airstream and Tumbleweed trailer homes, an attempt to create an urban version of the Burning Man festival.

Across the United States, more than 9.5 million acres have burned to date, making 2017 the second - worst year for fires in terms of area.

Beyond banning HD streaming video and knee - capping mobile - hotspot speeds, the $ 75 Go Unlimited plan reserves the possibility of «deprioritizing» your data if you enter an area with network congestion — even at the start of a billing cycle, before you've burned up any data yourself.

When no one responded, Hartley asked if anyone in the assembled crowd of New York - area bloggers and social media influencers had previously had the pleasure of smelling burned hair.

For people living in rural areas, where wait times for driverless Uber or any kind of public transit are completely unreasonable, yet don't have money to burn an extra $ 10k on their car to make it autonomous, will continue to buy old - fashioned human - driven cars with gas pedals and steering wheels long into the future — and will not accept not being able to drive their cars into cities.

The ecosystems of tropical forests possess an enormously complex biodiversity which is almost impossible to appreciate fully, yet when these forests are burned down or levelled for purposes of cultivation, within the space of a few years countless species are lost and the areas frequently become arid wastelands.

The boiling mud and sulphurous steam holes of the area west of Naples known as the Campi Flegrei or Phlegraean Fields, from the Greek word for burning, are a major tourist attraction.

Because of the smaller area, they will also be able to strongly smell the burning currency.

As government - organized cleanup of properties burned in the October wildfires is in the home stretch, officials set a deadline for private debris removal in Santa Rosa and unincorporated areas.

Faced with processing reconstruction permits for 3,000 burned homes in unincorporated areas, the Board of Supervisors on Monday is set to consider funding an outside plan - check company and bolstering in - house staffing.

Benzene, the cancer - causing chemical that city officials believe was sucked into its water system in a heavily burned area of Fountaingrove, is continuing to be discovered in new places, including one in Coffey Park.

The representatives from Harford County Climate Action made it clear — human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, has had a clear and measurable impact on the Earth's climate over the last century, and those actions have put low - lying areas of Harford County in danger from rising sea levels.

Has anyone mentioned the amount of toxins that would have been released into the air in the surrounding area from that much styrofoam and fibreglass burning?

The fundamentalists were driving out Christians, who account for about half of the two million citizens in the islands, one of the strongest Christian areas in Indonesia.The violence has raised concerns in the international community and particularly in ecumenical circles in recent months.The woman told ENI that the Jihad warriors, shouting Islamic slogans, «attack and burn down Christian houses, shops and even entire villages, killing whoever comes in their way».

There is plenty of archaeological evidence that cities in the area were repeatedly sacked and burned.

We just often miss it because we're expecting a burning bush experience or a dramatic area of service.

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.

During the Vietnam war, when government officials talked of «regrettable by - products,» they meant civilians killed by mistake; «pacification» meant the forcible evacuation of Vietnamese from their huts, the rounding up of all males, the shooting of those who resisted, the slaughtering of domesticated animals and the burning of dwellings; «incursion» meant another invasion of another country; creating a «sanitized belt» meant forcibly removing all the inhabitants of the area being «sanitized,» cutting down the trees, bulldozing the land and erecting «defensive positions» with machine guns, mortars and mines.

Thousands of Palestinians have protested along Gaza's sealed border with Israel, engulfing the volatile area in black smoke from burning tyres.

After all, the bank is well known for financing huge projects in developing countries that have made it an accomplice in the pollution of rivers, the burning of forests, and the strip mining of huge areas.

The whole area was called the «burned over district» because of the relentlessness of the revival preaching that went on there.

The civil and ecclesiastical authorities were continually on the watch for them; church trials and civil burnings occurred regularly for a century and more, in many areas of the two countries.

9) Put a drop of oregano oil with a carrier oil like coconut oil and place on cuts, burns and wounds (it will burn) to disinfect the area

The most common form of stomach ulcer symptom is a burning pain that can be felt between the breastbone and navel area.

The crust leaked significantly, some of the liquid burnt to the side of the pan giving the crust a burnt taste in certain areas.

Leave one area of the grill with just a few coals so that you can move food there if it starts to burn.

«There are many areas of pain that I believe capsaicin can effectively help treat, from burn victims, to children who have suffered side effects from radiation or chemotherapy.

However, many fans in the Cleveland area harbor resentment toward LBJ — recall the jersey - burning incidents in the wake of The Decision — and the staff at Quicken Loans Arena had to be on high alert on such an emotionally charged night.

You can understand why — he has raw pace to burn and a decent cross on him — but when you consider his own admission that he «prefers the ball to feet,» and the way he's capable of driving a team forward from deeper areas of the pitch, you have to wonder why Wenger didn't give him more chances.

Walcott runs the length of the pitch after a Liverpool attack breaks down on the edge of our area, evading 3 or 4 challenges, burning off defenders with pace, strength and skill, before crossing superbly to lay it on a sixpence for Adebayor.

Luckily, in this area there are a lot of options to let the kids burn off some energy while staying warm.

With the help of Mass Audubon and in partnership with the U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, Everglades National Park, The Nature Conservancy, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, TIDE trained nine Belizean protected area managers to the advanced level of «burn boss,» giving them the necessary skills in prescribed fires in pine savannahs to prevent dangerous wildfires.