Sentences with phrase «wildfires leave»

But the signal that wildfires leave in cave formations can also present a problem, because it is remarkably similar to the signal for a change in climate.

Wine Prices Could Go Up After California Wildfires Leave Tons of Grapes Unusable: California vineyards have been forced to throw away tons of grapes after they became unusable following wildfires that swept through the state last summer...

Three months after the wildfires left thousands without homes, Sonoma County continues double - digit gains in hotel occupancy and revenue, besting strong Napa County growth, according to January figures released Wednesday.

Not exact matches

But the wildfires in Sonoma and Napa county were more like the hurricanes that ravaged Necker Island in that scientists attribute their ferocity to climate change: specifically, unprecedented heat waves that killed trees and dried out underbrush, leaving huge amounts of fuel for the flames.

Sheep also eat cover crops, dry grasses and other leaf material that can fuel wildfires, making the property more fire - resistant.

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The mixture of warm temperatures and dry grass and leaves can easily start and spread wildfires.

Cuomo's statement noted that open burning of debris is the largest cause of spring wildfires in New York state, particularly if weather is dry and leaves are not out yet.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced that a crew of 20 employees and volunteers from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation left Sunday for California to help crews there deal with the devastating wildfires.

The public can comprehend the devastation of a catastrophic wildfire that torches vast stands of trees, leaves a scorched forest floor littered with wildlife carcasses and turns dancing streams into oozes of mud and ash.

Without their crucial landscaping services, including grazing on plants and leaf litter, biomass builds up on the forest floor and frequently causes wildfires.

The Boulder blaze was just the latest wildfire to strike Colorado, which is facing record high temperatures after a warm winter that left little snowpack to moisten soil.

As populations expand, so does the size of communities along the forest edges, which leaves residents in the line of wildfires.

Wildfires whipping across a landscape can burn away ground cover and vegetation, leaving soils exposed and easily erodible by precipitation.

In the wake of skyrocketing insurance claims due to natural disasters — hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, blizzards and the like — insurers have been imposing steep rate hikes and, in some cases, fleeing high - risk areas, leaving consumers out in the cold.

As a result of strenuous efforts to suppress wildfire and other land - management practices such as livestock grazing, logging, and land - type conversion, 8,9 many forests have experienced fire deficits, becoming overgrown and littered with flammable material such as leaf litter and saplings.

When a wildfire breaks out near their home, the father abruptly decides his calling is to fight it, leaving his family to fend for themselves indefinitely.

The leaves of fall are like a roaring wildfire setting hillsides ablaze, and this lesson that has students create and decorate fall similes is like a gift just waiting to be opened!

Fall similes The leaves of fall are like a roaring wildfire setting hillsides ablaze, and this lesson that has students create and decorate fall similes is like a gift just waiting to be opened!

Electronic books are catching on like wildfire in the US and UK, but in Canada, their traction leaves something to be desired.

is being devastated by raging wildfires that are wiping out entire neighbourhoods and leaving up to 88,000 people displaced while the Alberta government has declared a state of emergency.

If you're forced to leave your home because of an approaching wildfire, the property you leave behind is protected by your policy.

As the brutal wildfires advance, thousands of people are worrying about their homes, their neighbors and the things they left behind — including, in some cases, their animals.

One recent report detailed Odin, a great pyrenees that refused to leave its family's goats, and protected not only the herd but also baby deer that were in danger from the California wildfires.

American Humane was first to serve our best friends in their worst times, saving, sheltering and aiding thousands of frightened, hurt and hungry animals left homeless by the West Virginia floods, the Tennessee wildfires, and the historic deluge in Louisiana — the deadliest natural disaster since Superstorm Sandy.

Lake Mountain was hit by wildfires in February 2009, leaving most of the plateau severely devastated and burnt by the intensity of the fire.

Erika Blumenfeld (detail) Wildfire Paintings, 2012 Handmade wildfire carbon pigment, acrylic medium, 23 karat gold leaf, varnish 65.5 x 17 z 2.5 inches Photography © FredriWildfire Paintings, 2012 Handmade wildfire carbon pigment, acrylic medium, 23 karat gold leaf, varnish 65.5 x 17 z 2.5 inches Photography © Fredriwildfire carbon pigment, acrylic medium, 23 karat gold leaf, varnish 65.5 x 17 z 2.5 inches Photography © Fredrik Nilsen

Plus: Getty collection to stay put as wildfires rage in southern California Laura Paulson to leave Christie's University of Iowa announces new gallery for its art collection Anne - Imelda Radice to step down as director of American Folk Art Museum

Michael Fischerkeller (from left to right): Drought (Climate Change I) acrylic spray paint on canvas, 48 x 36 inches, Rising Seas (Climage Change II) acrylic spray paint on canvas, 36 x 48 inches; and Wildfires (Climate Change III) acrylic spray paint on canvas, 48 x 36 inches.

Do we want to leave our children a nightmare world of rising oceans, ever - larger wildfires, increasing hurricanes, and coastal cities under water?

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.

(Massive outbreak of permafrost wildfires in Russia this week have left up to 34 villages in smoldering ruins.

Along with the hot summer, annual precipitation for 2003 was as much as 12 inches (300 millimeters) below normal, leaving most of Europe in a drought.21 Damages to the agricultural sector were estimated at more than U.S. $ 16 billion (more than $ 13 billion).3, 21 Many areas saw an increase in wildfires, while low water levels in major rivers led to problems ranging from irrigating crops to cooling power plants.4, 21,22

Not to leave this comment on a note without hope, we're fanning the flames for the wildfire and most who join our team, all have an extreme sense of urgency!

Increased wildfires further compound the problem by leaving behind a burn scar.

The 2016 wildfire season picked up where 2015 left off.

Double CO2 climate scenarios increase wildfire events by 40 - 50 % in California (Fried et al., 2004), and double fire risk in Cape Fynbos (Midgley et al., 2005), favouring re-sprouting plants in Fynbos (Bond and Midgley, 2003), fire - tolerant shrub dominance in the Mediterranean Basin (Mouillot et al., 2002), and vegetation structural change in California (needle - leaved to broad - leaved trees, trees to grasses) and reducing productivity and carbon sequestration (Lenihan et al., 2003).

Spurred on by the region's wildfires, which have been steadily increasing over the last few years, and droughts, the region's remaining swaths of forest and grasslands risk being lost in a single summer - leaving behind a spare, «semidesertic» ecosystem.

The wave of droughts and wildfires that roiled many regions of the country have likely left several hundred million more tons of carbon in the atmosphere and devastated many of our natural carbon sinks - as much as half, according to John Miller, a NOAA geochemist.

If we don't curb our carbon - emitting ways, the alarmists warn, we face «increasingly radical temperature changes, a worldwide upsurge in violent weather events, widespread drought, flooding, wildfires, famine, species extinction, rising sea levels, mass migration, and epidemic disease that will leave no country untouched.»

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves the helicopter during a visit to Fort McMurray, Alta., on Friday, May 13, 2016, to see first - hand the devastation caused by the wildfire that forced the evacuation of the city.

The 9th annual conference comes during a time where ongoing wildfires are ripping through northern California, leaving at least 35 people dead across four counties.

If you're forced to leave your home because of an approaching wildfire, the property you leave behind is protected by your policy.

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Although the population has experienced large - scale wildfires before — persevering through the Rocky, Jerusalem and Valley fires in the past few years — the immediate danger in Northern California is proving to be a devastating event, leaving whole neighborhoods burned to the ground.

July 24, 2017, Vancouver BC — With wildfires continuing to threaten people and property in BC's interior regions, the Council's thoughts are with the many people who have been forced to leave their homes and businesses.

Wildfires that ripped through Northern California last year left neighborhoods in destruction.

Wildfires have ravaged more than 2.8 million acres so far this year, damaging or destroying more than a thousand homes and commercial buildings and leaving area practitioners scrambling to serve buyers and sellers, even as fire threatened their own homes and businesses.