Sentences with phrase «widespread fires»

The team believes that it was not fuel availability that prevented widespread fire, or climate, but that the atmospheric oxygen levels were too low.
«The confluence of climate and people in these areas increases the risk of widespread fire activity when the fire season severity is elevated,» said Doug Morton of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who works with Randerson and colleagues on the forecast.
Last year, however, the NRC committee released an interim report that drew widespread fire from researchers and environmentalists; it concluded that there was no scientific evidence that endangered salmon or threatened suckers would benefit (Science, 4 April, p. 36).
Widespread fires forced many Main Street business owners to evacuate or close their stores, just as shops geared up for the last three weeks of holiday sales.
A study, carried out by Professor Andrew C. Scott of the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London and Professor Sue Rimmer from Southern Illinois University, reveals widespread fire occurred on Earth more than 80 million years after plants first invaded the land.
Whereas there were likely widespread fires as shown in the film, they would have been caused by toppled oil lamps rather than flaming projectiles.
While the haze may contain dust, it is likely smoke from widespread fires in Southeast Asia.
Using pollen, phytolith, and charcoal records to identify the distribution and composition of tropical vegetation and fire patterns over the past 11,000 years, Dolores R. Piperno of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, found evidence of widespread fire use for land - clearing by pre-Colombian populations in Latin America.
Williams published a study last year showing how climate - driven removal of moisture from land worsened the recent California drought, which was accompanied by widespread fires.
While fires in Borneo and Sumatra are garnering most of the headlines for the choking air pollution they are causing across Southeast Asia, New Guinea is also experiencing widespread fire...
It had been suggested that only when oxygen levels rose to above 17 % (it is 21 % today) that widespread fires would be found.
During the PETM, droughts, widespread fires and thawing permafrost blighted the planet, but there were no notable extinctions.
«Drought causes more intense and widespread fires,» said Dr Brando.
Why Oklahomans are at an increased risk is uncertain, but it could be that the state's higher population density accounts for more damage due to widespread fires.
Each fire becomes more challenging, and players must do what they can to stop the widespread fires.
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