Sentences with phrase «of wildfires across»

Professor Andrew Scott, one of the lead authors, said: «High oxygen levels in the atmosphere at this time has been proposed for some time and may be why there were giant insects and arthropods at this time but our research indicates that there was a significant impact on the prevalence and scale of wildfires across the globe and this would have affected not only the ecology of the plants and animals but also their evolution.»

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today urged all New Yorkers to take extra caution, as dry weather conditions have led to a heightened danger of wildfires across Upstate and Western New York.

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Geographic information system and mapping capabilities that go hand - in - hand with UAVs have many applications across multiple industries, from bridge, road and pipeline mapping to tracking the path of wildfires and identifying hotspots to assist firefighters, crop monitoring and insect detection for farmers, and real - time imaging for search and rescue operations.

The six major wildfires that erupted throughout Southern California in the past week have killed at least one person, destroyed hundreds of buildings, forced more than 200,000 people to flee and choked the air across much of the region.

State officials on Monday reported a record 129 million dead trees across 8.9 million acres due to drought and bark beetles, posing the biggest wildfire hazard to the Sierra Nevada region in the northern part of the state.

Some 200,000 copies of the DVD were handed out at over one hundred of America's top universities in late October 2011, and in the weeks following word of the film has spread like wildfire across the US.

Northern California Wildfire Jumps Line, Forces Evacuations: More than 200 people were ordered from their homes Tuesday when a wildfire jumped a containment line east of California's Napa Valley wine country in one of several blazes burning across tWildfire Jumps Line, Forces Evacuations: More than 200 people were ordered from their homes Tuesday when a wildfire jumped a containment line east of California's Napa Valley wine country in one of several blazes burning across twildfire jumped a containment line east of California's Napa Valley wine country in one of several blazes burning across the state

After a year of vine - killing frosts, hail, drought, and destructive wildfires in regions from across the globe, the wine industry has a lot to look forward to in 2018.

We feel that Little Rock is the second home of the Pigs and that for several seasons this has been the starting point for the mania that spreads like wildfire across the state each fall.

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.

For example, the amount of weedy non-native plants across all research sites increased, suggesting that the plant community responded more strongly to environmental changes caused by high - intensity wildfire than disturbances from logging.

After a century of wildfire suppression across the American West, many forests have grown unnaturally dense.

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.

Zwally's results spread like wildfire across many conservative news outlets — including Fox News, Breitbart News and The Daily Express — which hailed it as another sign that the dangers of climate change have been exaggerated.

The wildfires raging across the western United States in 2000 were among the worst of the past half - century.

In nine years of battling wildfires across the Western United States, Edmund Howick has mourned a fallen fellow firefighter and hiked a mountain hauling nearly 100 pounds (45 kg) of equipment on his back to escape a blaze that heralded its advance with a roar.

On Friday afternoon, a wildfire swept across Interstate 15, a busy freeway that connects Los Angeles and Las Vegas in Southern California, setting dozens of vehicles on fire.

In 2010, Pederson and coauthor Amy Hessl, a tree - ring scientist at West Virginia University, were studying wildfires in Mongolia when they came across a stand of gnarled, stunted Siberian pines growing out of cracks in an old solid - rock lava flow in the Khangai Mountains.

The health of our forests and landscapes are at risk across the nation, and the tree mortality crisis could be better addressed if not for the increasing percentage of the Forest Service budget going to fight wildfire.

«Wildfires may double erosion across a quarter of western US watersheds by 2050.»

18 The Black Dragon Fire of 1987, the largest wildfire in modern times, burned some 20 million acres across China and the Soviet Union, an area about the size of South Carolina.

This is according to Alexandra Larsen of North Carolina State University in the US who led the first ever study taking a long - term look into the effects that wildfire smoke has on air quality across the US.

Since the 1970s, the number of large - scale wildfires in the US, which spread across 10,000 acres (~ 4000 + hectares) or more, has increased fivefold.

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).

Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests.

Even if all the fires went out across the West tomorrow, this year would still rank as the seventh-most destructive wildfire season in terms of acres burned.

Less winter precipitation falling as snow is bad news for water supplies and wildfires out West and the financial fate of ski resorts across the country.

Indeed, impacts of Arctic warming include the melting of major Arctic glaciers and Greenland (containing the potential for up to 7 meters of sea level rise if it were to melt entirely), the thawing of carbon rich permafrost (which could add to the burden of atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions) and signs of worsening wildfires across the boreal forests of Alaska, to name a few.

The story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite crew who tackle wildfires across America, is the sort of enthusiastic chest thumper that you would associate with Peter Berg.

Hundreds of schools shut down across Southern California last week as wildfires raged across parched land in one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit the region.

School violence in Florida last month has sparked a wildfire of activism around school safety, and school administrators across the state are working to prepare for student protests planned this month and next.

PROVO, UT — October 18, 2017 — Imagine Learning, developer of the award - winning Imagine Math digital curriculum, announced today that students across the country have raised $ 5,000 for the American Red Cross California Wildfire Relief Fund, five days after hearing about the funding opportunity.

Imagine Learning, developer of the award - winning Imagine Math digital curriculum, announced today that students across the country have raised $ 5,000 for the American Red Cross California Wildfire Relief Fund, five days after hearing about the funding opportunity.

Although some of my thoughts are a mere dream, most are already becoming a reality (if not a reality in many classrooms) and by the distributive nature of Education, I expect many trends to spread across the world like wildfire as they are proven successful and more research comes out about how they have improved student learning.

The hairs prickle on the back of your neck and goosebumps spread like wildfire across your forearms.

In the scorching, drought - plagued summer of 1934, as wildfires burn across Utah, Detective Lieutenant Art Oveson faces a unique assignment.

During the summer of 2011, as I planned my first research trip to Cochise County, Arizona, for my upcoming novel APACHE PORTAL, three wildfires raged out of control across the historic Apache homeland.

In January, the world watched in shock as a 26 - year - old Tunisian fruit vendor lit himself on fire to protest the regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and sparked a revolution that spread across the Middle East like wildfire — today even threatening governments thought to be untouchable, like the Baathist Assad Regime in Syria.

When the wildfire struck outside Fort McMurray a year ago, Rocco Neglia was sitting in a regular office meeting across the country at the head office of his firm Economical Insurance, in Waterloo, Ont.

TORONTO, ON --(May 6, 2016)-- Canadians who would like to help pets and Pet Parents affected by the wildfire crisis in Fort McMurray can now make monetary donations to PetSmart Charities of Canada at PetSmartcharities.ca or at any PetSmart location across the country.

With the ever - increasing number of floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and wildfires, AKC Reunite is helping communities across the nation prepare by mobilizing AKC Pet Disaster Relief.

A number of dangerous wildfires have wreaked havoc across the state of California.

A combination of dry vegetation and the Santa Ana winds have fueled wildfires across Southern California, with the Skirball fire now threatening the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

Update: In December of 2017, devastating wildfires swept across southern California, including areas surrounding Santa Barbara.

In fact, many gamers became ever more excited and news of the game spread like wildfire across the net with gamers eagerly chatting about the upcoming announcement.

In case you've somehow managed to miss the utter shitstorm that's recently spread across the Internet like a very angry wildfire, Konami recently revealed their first Metal Gear game to be created since the departure of series creator Hideo Kojima.

Tons of excitement followed by a dark cloud of angst and frustration as the now infamous Game Informer leaks spread across the internet like a wildfire.

Satellite images have revealed swaths of brown, dying vegetation and a growing number of catastrophic wildfires in the last decade across parts of interior Alaska, Canada and Russia.

NASA footage from the International Space Station has revealed the startling extent of the wildfires spreading across the American Southwest.

The 2015 drought conditions and lack of snowpack led to a historically severe wildfire season with more than 1.6 million acres burned across Oregon and Washington, resulting in more than $ 560 million in fire suppression costs.