Sentences with phrase «wildfires over»

«Among the slowest moving luxury markets in the U.S. was the very expensive Santa Barbara, California, which got hit by catastrophic wildfires over the past year.

The northern U.S. and Canada have already experienced a sharp rise in wildfires over the last few decades, with more to come.

[9] O. Pechony and D.T. Shindell, «Driving forces of global wildfires over the past millennium and the forthcoming century,» Proc.

Santa Ana winds pushing wildfires over the canyons.

The researchers also used satellite data to record the total amount of CO2 released as a result of deforestation and wildfires over the study period.

Greenpeace Russia reported a big spike in wildfires over the past three years, as well.

I think it had about 2 page views when I initially published it, but it has taken off like wildfire over the past couple months!

The Zika virus spread like wildfire over the past few years and made its way across almost every island between Brazil and Florida.

But not for the founders of Green Hanukkia, a campaign that has spread like wildfire over the Internet.

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The theory is that Cersei sent Qyburn on a mission to investigate an «old rumor» that there are hidden stashes of wildfire all over King's Landing that could be used to burn down the city.

Nearly two dozen wildfires spread through the counties of Napa, Sonoma, and six others last week, destroying an estimated 5,700 structures, and burning over 200,000 acres of land — a collective area roughly the size of New York City.

The number of wildfires touching more than 50,000 acres has been increasing over the last 30 years, and the total acreage burned this decade is more than double the area burned in the 1990s.

Wildfire seasons all over the planet are lasting longer than they have in the past and burning wider swaths of land, and Earth's changing climate is to blame, according to a new report.

Public anxiety over food safety often spreads like wildfire, keeping consumer companies from Coca - Cola to cosmetics firm Avon Products on their toes.

As wildfires have been multiplying over recent years and the trend is likely to continue in that direction, new technologies to combat fire are being invented, and two students at George Mason University are at the forefront of the trend.

In the last 4 years, we've backed over 100 women - led companies like Wildfire, TaskRabbit, SlideShare, Viki, Moonfruit, TheRealReal, and ipsy.

Smoke inhalation from wildfires can also be deadly over time, since fine smoke particles in the air aggravate asthma, provoke inflammation, and strain the heart and lungs.

Researchers expect that as climate change makes wildfires more likely over the course of this century, deaths and illnesses attributed to pollution from wood smoke will rise too, even offsetting gains made from cleaning up emissions from industry.

Wildfires began igniting over the summer, sending choking air pollution through Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and California.

California's critical energy and transportation infrastructure faces significant climate related risks over the course of the century, including more frequent and intense wildfires, prolonged drought, and accelerated sea - level rise.

Kaiser Permanente's operations in Sonoma and Marin counties donated over $ 520,000 to restore child care and clinics after the October wildfires.

Two years after a massive wildfire ripped through Fort McMurray, the rebuild is not done yet and frustrations over insurance issues continue to flare up.

The effort to clean up debris from the October wildfires has been made more complicated by confusion over just how «clean» the cleared lots must be before rebuilding can proceed.

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The accounting firm gave over $ 100,000 to help those in need after the October wildfires.

Sonoma County wants to give victims of the wildfires certainty over how much it will cost and how long it will take to get permits to rebuild in the unincorporated areas.

Firefighters in Texas are battling huge wildfires all over Texas, some of which are over 100,000 acres large.

Some 200,000 copies of the DVD were handed out at over one hundred of America's top universities in late October 2011, and in the weeks following word of the film has spread like wildfire across the US.

This scenario repeated itself over the next few years as each subsequent Lucado book connected like wildfire with readers in our university town.

Our Mr. Stripey tomato plant has been growing like wildfire — it is honestly over 7 feet tall at this point... probably even taller than that.

California Wildfires Threaten to Make Local Wine «Unpalatable»: There are fears in California's wine industry over the possible impact of raging wildfires and whether they could damage this year's grape yield, potentially affecting the state's multibillion dollar Wildfires Threaten to Make Local Wine «Unpalatable»: There are fears in California's wine industry over the possible impact of raging wildfires and whether they could damage this year's grape yield, potentially affecting the state's multibillion dollar wildfires and whether they could damage this year's grape yield, potentially affecting the state's multibillion dollar business.

When it comes to the reported move for former Chelsea striker Nicolas Anelka — which has spread like absolute wildfire in the Italian press over the course of the past 24 hours — I'm not really really having an easy time and having the same kind of vision I did with Llorente.

Mr. Amper said the county should take «proactive» steps to reduce wildfires by burning roughly 1,000 acres over the course of the year in smaller fires to prevent massive fires from swelling out of control.

What we are aiming is that over time your friends will tell their friends and it spreads like wildfire.

Most of Oregon and Washington's wildfires were caused by lightning storms over the weekend of July 12, Connolly explained, and there are likely more to come.

IN MAY, a drone flew out over one of the largest wildfires in US history.

In 2013, wildfires in Washington burned over 152,603 acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC).

But over the last century, in keeping with forestry practices across the West, most wildfires were extinguished.

Researchers analyzed data from nearly 1,500 sites in five states — Colorado, Wyoming, Washington, Idaho, and Montana — and measured more than 63,000 seedlings after 52 wildfires that burned over the past three decades.

Smoke spreads over the Pacific Ocean from wildfires raging in Southern California in this satellite image taken Sunday, Nov..

Indeed, the controversy over Mikovits's findings didn't even have a chance to smolder; it erupted like a wildfire on several continents.

Scientists are still working to understand the causes of this change, as it takes close to a decade to establish the pace of post-fire regeneration at any given site, and Western wildfires have been growing progressively more severe over the past 25 years.

Several large severe wildfires have occurred in the state over the past decade, leading some to hypothesize that the beetle's destructive spread may be a contributing factor.

This year, California had a record setting wildfire season, with the Blue Cut fire alone scorching over 30,000 acres and triggering the evacuation of 80,000 people.

Over the past decade, the United States has spent $ 1.7 billion on wildfire suppression, the study noted.

«Over the past few decades, wildfire suppression costs have increased as fire seasons have grown longer and the frequency, size, and severity of wildfires has increased,» Jones said.

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.

The new study noted that every year from 1979 to 2013, on average, about 865 million acres of land all over the world was affected by wildfires.

«It's possible that the mobility of charcoal on the landscape and it's tendency to become concentrated in low - lying spots could make it more likely the charcoal from wildfires becomes buried and incorporated deep in soils and that these deposits act as a kind of charcoal reservoir that releases charcoal into the soil over long time spans.»

Over the past 15 years, California and neighboring regions have experienced heightened drought conditions and an increase in wildfire numbers with considerable impacts on human livelihoods, agriculture, and terrestrial ecosystems.