Sentences with phrase «wildfires burn»

Wildfires burn out of control.

Typically, large wildfires burn on the southern fringe of the taiga, a dense forest ecosystem also known as the boreal forest, but this year's fires are burning in a more central portion of the taiga.

As wildfires burn longer and fiercer, doctors are trying to work out how today's smoke will affect tomorrow's health.

Fueled by intense heat, dryness, and high winds, 50 major wildfires burn in the central and southern regions of Chile, causing thousands to evacuate, creating millions of dollars in damages, and destroying hundreds of homes.

(Extensive wildfires burn though Siberian Khakassia on April 12 of 2015.

We saw a single tornado wipe out an entire town in Oklahoma, soaring temperatures and unseasonal wildfires burn in Australia months before summer, and a new breed of super typhoon smash into Palau and the Philippines leaving thousands of precious souls in its wake.

When wildfires burn up alpine vegetation, the roots needed to retain that soil shrivel up.

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

Wildfires burn up Alaskan spruce forests, the spongy organic «duff» layer at their base, and sometimes expose the carbon - rich permafrost beneath that layer to potential thaw.

The bulk of U.S. wildfires burn in the western half of the country because soils

Public health will suffer as heat waves become more frequent and intense, rising seas inundate coastal cities, extreme storms lead to more deaths and catastrophic wildfires burn more forests and reduce air quality.

It was like a wildfire burning out of control.»

From Hurricane Harvey flooding Houston to Hurricanes Irma and Maria ripping through the Caribbean to wildfires burning Northern California, cities and charities have been flooded with donations and volunteers.

In 2016, Oregon wildfires burned 219,509 acres, which placed the state 10th for most acres burned.

As the wildfires burned, Brent crude oil prices soared above $ 50 per barrel for the first time in 2016.

The October 2017 wildfires burned 245,000 acres in counties affected (Lake, Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino, Butte and Solano).

The wildfire burned nearly 70,000 acres in 2015.

While the exact sources of black carbon are often difficult to pinpoint in remote areas, the researchers used molecular analysis of the black carbon along with analysis of wind patterns to show that Greenland's ice sheet had recently seen clear effects of wildfires burning thousands of miles away in the Canadian Arctic.

In California alone last year, 5,600 wildfires burned more than 600,000 acres as the drought wore on.

The catastrophic wildfires burning in California, which killed at least one person over the weekend and injured several others, are being fueled by high temperatures, strong winds and years of withering drought influenced by climate change.

Western Wildfires, California Firestorm: $ 18 Billion When: June 1 to Dec. 31, 2017 Deaths: 54 The damage: Wildfires burned more than 9.8 million acres of western U.S. territory in 2017, with cumulative costs triple that of last year's fire season.

Studies in Alaska and Canada have projected that hotter, drier summers may increase annual wildfire burn areas by two to three times by the end of the century.

«More, bigger wildfires burning western US over last 30 years.»

Overall, the West is seeing trends toward more large wildfires burning more acres with longer fire seasons.

We found that the average number of large wildfires burning each year and the total area burning in these fires have both increased dramatically since the 1970s.

There are now three times more large wildfires burning across the West each year than in the 1970s.

Wildfires burned more than 9.5 million acres across the U.S., destroying neighborhoods and releasing dangerous smoke pollution.

June 12, 2012 • Crews are struggling to get the upper hand on several large, destructive wildfires burning across the parched southern Rockies.

The Eagle Creek wildfire burns in the Columbia River Gorge east of Portland, Ore., in September.

VCA Animal Hospitals made the offer Dec. 6 as wildfires burned more than 100,000 acres and an undetermined number of homes in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.

While firefighters continue working to increase the control they have over the wildfire burning in Bastrop, the Texas A&M Veterinary Emergency Team will move its base of operations into the Bastrop community.

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.

Responding to wildfire on the Channel Islands raises a quandary, because there are positive and negative aspects to letting wildfire burn:

McCarty, who has been obsessed with watercolor and its ephemerality since a massive wildfire burned down her home and studio in 1993, creates her work with wet - into - wet on loose sheets of watercolor paper.

Last year, wildfires burned more than 10 million acres in the United States at a cost of $ 2.1 billion in federal expenditures — the costliest year on record.

As my wounded ticker protests this latest insult, the Times Colonist confirms that wildfires burning throughout the province are increasing hospital admissions for cardiovascular symptoms.

According to the authorities, much of the smoke settling in the trees outside is coming from a wildfire burning in steep terrain and heavy timber near Pemberton.

A satellite image captured on June 23, 2017 shows the extent of wildfires burning across Siberia.

In early May 2016, a destructive wildfire burned through Canada's Fort McMurray in the Northern Alberta region.

State emergency responders and the National Guard are working together at this point to help the thousands affected by the devastating wildfires burning throughout Gatlinburg, Pigeon Force and the Great Smoky Mountain Park.

Up to 90 taiga wildfires burned in the Far East of Russia on June 29, 2012.

I wonder with all the wildfires burning in CAlifornia how much Geoengineering added to this problem.

A warming in the Arctic that sets the stage for gargantuan summer wildfires burning through some of the world's greatest carbon stores.

On the morning of August 9, 557 wildfires burned in Russia, reported BBC News.

In August, wildfires burned through British Columbia, and the smoke plumes are clearly visible as they get stirred into the atmosphere and pass over the Arctic.

Several major wildfires burned their way across the state in 2017, including the largest - ever in California's history, the Thomas Fire, costing the state a record high of $ 702 million in firefighting alone.

In 2012, wildfires burned 9.2 million acres across eight states, reducing air quality, damaging property and costing more than $ 1 billion.

For example, in 2017 California experienced almost twice as many wildfires burning six times as many acres as the average over the last five years [2], and these fires were among the deadliest in the state's history, killing a total of 47 people [3].

Later control dates were no doubt partly due to later ignition dates, given that the date of the last reported wildfire ignition increased by 15 days, but a substantial increase in the length of time the average wildfire burned also played a role.

In the article, Sara, a doctor in Yakima, discusses her own experiences treating patients who are suffering due to the smoke in the air from wildfires burning across western North America.