Sentences with phrase «wildfires consume»

Reporting on the challenges faced by Canadian communities in a warming world as wildfires consume resources, property and lives.

The 2005 wildfire season, which ravaged 8.7 million acres, was record - breaking, and the record it broke was from 2000, when wildfires consumed 8.4 million acres.

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

The 2005 wildfire season, which ravaged 8.7 million acres, was record - breaking, and the record it broke was from 2000, when wildfires consumed 8.4 million acres.

Not exact matches

About 2 percent of all fires consume more than 90 percent of the overall wildfire suppression budget.

At the end of the day the $ 10 - billion wildfire that consumed 2400 homes and buildings in Fort McMurray may be the least of the region's problems.

The wildfire that has been raging in Ulster County since the weekend is continuing, consuming some 800 acres, and the governor yesterday added another 70 people to the firefighting effort there.

The scene from the air of a wildfire April 24, 2016 in Ulster County near the Sam's Point preserve that has consumed more than 300 acres.

Research by Canada's Forest Service found that in 2013, the nation saw more than 10 million acres consumed in wildfires.

In 2010, Fourmile Canyon in the Boulder, Colorado, foothills experienced a wildfire that after a week consumed 6,181 acres and 169 homes — the most expensive blaze in the state's history.

That's about five - sixths of the total acreage consumed by wildfires anywhere in America this year — currently, 6,224,545 acres.

They're also affected by the thickness and type of vegetation that they consume, which in turn are shaped by weather, climate and wildfires.

Over the past few years, the awareness of the dangers of consuming wheat has spread like wildfire thanks to runaway...

The wildfire has consumed thousands of acres in just over a week.

And litigation consumes money like wildfire, not to mentioned time, attention, and sleep.

It scales up like a wildfire does, consuming the fuel of our content — good tidings of great joy — and looking for the oxygen of big, big, big audiences of fans who are less, less, less discerning by the day — which shall be to all people.

That answer could come as early as this evening, but potentially Thursday morning as first responders battle a wildfire that continues to consume large amounts of acreage in the Bastrop area.

A horrible wildfire was consuming the area where they lived.

All of which is troubling for multiple reasons: (1) Recent research suggests that more Alaskan wildfires, and more large Alaskan fires in particular, are a trend; (2) In some cases, wildfires in Alaska don't just consume trees, grasses or tundra.

Such claims include the meme that rising global CO2 has caused accelerating, rapid US warming; that droughts are destroying all of our food crops; that more frequent and stronger weather disasters from warmer temperatures are wreaking untold harm; that global warming will shorten / threaten US life spans; that ever expanding wildfires are consuming our forests; and etc., etc., etc..

Wispy cirrus clouds obscure some of the fire and smoke from the wildfires that have consumed large portions of northern California around the wine country in this latest NASA satellite image.

Like a wildfire, emotional wounding and defensiveness can spiral out of control and quickly consume a relationship.