Sentences with phrase «part of a wildfire»

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The fires have put property worth billions of dollars at risk in California, where wildfires in the northern part of the state in October resulted in insured losses of more than $ 9 billion.

Startups are finding innovative ways to bring food, shelter, and transportation to victims of the hurricanes, wildfires, and tornados that ravaged parts of the U.S. last year, as well as improve safety for those caught in other types of disasters and emergency situations.

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

Part of Slack's luck was also how quickly its reputation grew thanks to word - of - mouth among tech startup employees, fueling it to spread like wildfire while earning it «increasing returns,» as Butterfield says.

The lessons from online marketing are the same as those we learn from influenza, herpes, ebola, AIDS, etc. — great ideas stay with you, spread like wildfire, become a part of your daily routine, are fun, and are tough to shed.

Louisiana has long been notorious for flooding, and Arizona renowned for triple - digit heat, and wildfires have always been an iconic part of the American West.

2016.05.06 RBC provides $ 2 million in support of families and communities impacted by wildfires and economic downturn in Alberta Today, RBC announced a donation of $ 2 million to support families and communities affected by the wildfires and the recent economic downturn in Alberta, as part of its longstanding history of helping Canadians...

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.

The Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group of Wageningen University & Research together with the Department of Geophysics and Meteorology of Bogor Agricultural University IPB, Indonesia, was investigating the link between drought and wildfires, as part of a joint Indonesian - Dutch project funded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

The U.S. Forest Service announced yesterday that it has contracted for seven new «next generation» air tankers for wildfire suppression, part of the service's ongoing efforts to replace its current, aging fleet.

In mid-August the wildfires pestering the Frank Church Wilderness are too far away to be worrisome, but a month afterward parts of this trail will be aflame, as a lightning - sparked fire leaps the Middle Fork and ascends to the Crags.

Concerns about peat fires worsening climate change Mike Flannigan, director of the University of Alberta's Western Partnership for Wildland Fire Science who was not involved with the analysis, said it's important to note that wildfires are a part of northern boreal forests» ecology.

The wildfire forecast follows a major heat wave in California, where the temperatures soared above 120 °F (48.9 °C) in some parts of Southern California.

The lack of water made the region's forests super-dry, triggering wildfires in parts of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Over the past 15 years, parts of the western U.S. have experienced severe drought conditions and an increasing number of wildfires that take a toll on people and ecosystems.

Bringing together observed and simulated measurements on ocean temperatures, atmospheric pressure, water soil and wildfire occurrences, the researchers have a powerful tool in their hands, which they are willing to test in other regions of the world: «Using the same climate model configuration, we will also study the soil water and fire risk predictability in other parts of our world, such as the Mediterranean, Australia or parts of Asia,» concludes Timmermann.

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.

You suggest that the US National Security Agency was part of the problem that caused the wildfire spread of malware...

A: Part of the take - home is that, given we do play such a substantial role in starting our own wildfires, we need to accept living in flammable places.

2015 also saw the biggest single - year jump in carbon dioxide levels at the observatory atop Hawaii's Mauna Loa, a record that came in part because of El Niño's influence on greenhouse gas - emitting wildfires in the tropics.

The institute draws a diverse cadre of researchers from around the world to take part in interdisciplinary synthetic research groups to find creative solutions to pressing problems from animal disease to wildfire control.

Disturbances — in particular, stand - replacing wildfires — are increasing in many parts of the world, and dominate carbon cycling in most North American boreal forests.

As such, leveraging well - established fire danger indices to explore changes in global wildfire weather only capture part of the potential variations in global pyrogeography.

Wildfires are becoming more common and widespread as temperatures rise and large parts of the U.S. become drier — a trend likely to worsen thanks to manmade climate change.

Moreover, don't forget that at least one other part of the global north where wildfires sometimes burn atop permafrost — namely, Canada — is also having a busy 2015 wildfire year.

Forests that historically had large areas with no snow on the ground for two to four months and high moisture loss from soils and vegetation in spring and summer have seen the biggest increases in wildfire in early spring snowmelt years (for example, the northern Rockies and parts of the Sierra Nevada).

Dry conditions in parts of the United States increase the potential for wildfires in or near wilderness areas.

Firefighters extinguish hot spots after a wildfire, part of the Okanogan Complex, swept through the area on Saturday near Okanogan, Wash..

December 7, 2017 • The wildfires consuming parts of Southern California are becoming a new normal for the state, climatologists say.

Author's Note: Due to some unpleasant wildfires in Derek's part of the world, we've had to postpone some of the reviews that were going up this week.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced the assistance as part of a $ 693 million package that will also help schools in Texas, hit hard by hurricanes in 2017, and California, where many campuses were damaged by wildfires.

If you want to sell books like wildfire, email newsletters should be a regular part of your book marketing plan.

There are some updates that come part and parcel of Foyo that won't be available, such as Flash support and Live wallpapers — due to the limitations of the Wildfire's hardware.

The prime minister was in Fort McMurray for much of the day to see first - hand the damage caused by a wildfire that swept through parts of the city last week.

Earthquakes, wildfires, mudslides and flooding are just a few examples of hazards that affect this part of the country.

The federal agency said real gross domestic product fell at an annualized rate of 1.6 per cent in the three - month period, due in large part to the wildfires that destroyed parts of Fort McMurray, Alta.

There's a reduced risk of wildfires in Santa Monica, of course, but the reduction in frequency of claims found there is also part of what drives down the cost.

Padilla Ranch and San Luis Rey Downs disasters may have been only part of the Southern California fire toll on horses LOS ANGELES ---- Of the estimated 700,000 horses living in California, nearly 60 % live in the four - county Southern California region hit by early December wildfires, the largest of which, the Thomas fire raging in the wooded -LSB-..of the Southern California fire toll on horses LOS ANGELES ---- Of the estimated 700,000 horses living in California, nearly 60 % live in the four - county Southern California region hit by early December wildfires, the largest of which, the Thomas fire raging in the wooded -LSB-..Of the estimated 700,000 horses living in California, nearly 60 % live in the four - county Southern California region hit by early December wildfires, the largest of which, the Thomas fire raging in the wooded -LSB-..of which, the Thomas fire raging in the wooded -LSB-...]

During last year's hurricanes and California wildfires, the ASPCA relocated more than 1,600 animals as part of our disaster response efforts.

Trying times have a way of bringing out the best in people, and the North Bay's women more than showed their mettle when wildfires tore through parts of Napa and Sonoma counties in October 201...

We catch up with her several months after wildfires devastated parts of Sonoma and Napa Counties in California.

The United States saw a score of natural disasters in 2017, with wildfires sweeping through southern California and hurricanes striking parts of the south and Puerto Rico.

As wildfires swept through California, Hurricane Harvey was wreaking havoc on the southern part of Texas and Louisiana.

The summer 2008 California wildfires burned the upper parts of the park, but were stopped at Highway 1 and did not affect the camping sites.

The newspaper headlines recall the devastation of the 1993 California wildfires but there is no emotion behind these images — as though pain and loss are simply a Hollywood production and not part of actual life.

Increasingly since the 1970s, policy has been to managed rather than suppress fire, since it is a part of the natural ecology, and some species depend on wildfire as part of their life cycle.

8:25 p.m. Updates below There's an enormous financial cost attending the expansion of America's «wildland - urban interface» — the term for areas where communities have sprouted in forested areas — in parts of the country prone to wildfires.

In the past two decades, a quarter million people have moved into Colorado's red zones — the parts of the state at risk for the most dangerous wildfires.

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.

If we're going to get out of this mess, the starting assumption has to be a love of nature and a belief that even things such as wildfire and drought are part of an ecosystem's normal processes.