Sentences with phrase «with wildfires»

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.

And even though you may not associate a suburban area like Mesquite with wildfires, some of the most damaging fires start in the home.

[15] The Moderate - Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aboard the Terra satellite can detect thermal hot spots associated with wildfires, volcanoes, and industrial hot spots.

Despite campaigning to the backdrop of one of the hottest summers on record, replete with wildfires, epic drought, wild weather events (remember the derecho?)

«Our scientists found that the balance of carbon storage versus release in Alaska was strongly linked with wildfires,» Burkett said.

You know, I look at the world & how it's falling apart everywhere with wildfires, hurricanes, tornados, flooding, earthquakes... and I look at everything you've been saying and teaching and I think: WOW!

Add to that, many ranchers are also dealing with wildfires making the urgency even greater to save their cattle.

A new study found that «climate shocks» like hurricanes, along with wildfires, drought and increased public health impacts, will cost the US nearly $ 1 billion a day within a decade.

Problems with wildfires.

The United States saw a score of natural disasters in 2017, with wildfires sweeping through southern California and hurricanes striking parts of the south and Puerto Rico.

«After extensive consideration and in light of the uncertainty associated with the causes and potential liabilities associated with these wildfires as well as state policy uncertainties, the PG&E boards determined that suspending the common and preferred stock dividends is prudent with respect to cash conservation and is in the best long - term interests of the companies, our customers and our shareholders... We fully recognize the importance of dividends and intend to revisit the issue as we get more clarity.»

One of the greatest concerns with wildfires is their impact on air quality and associated health consequences; PM2.5 is just one of the pollutants in wildfire smoke, but its small size makes it a well - known threat to people's health.

California, Oregon and Washington have declared states of emergency to deal with the wildfires, as experts warn that this fire season, which runs from mid-May to mid-October, could be one of the worst on record.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said the Forest Service should have the resources and flexibility to deal with wildfires and other natural disasters so that efforts to fight the emerald ash borer in the Buffalo area can remain intact throughout the summer.

Congress is considering a $ 36.5 billion aid package for Puerto Rico and California, which is contending with wildfires that have killed nearly two dozen.

It's been a difficult week for me with wildfires surrounding my home, and the birth stories -LSB-...]

It's been a difficult week for me with wildfires surrounding my home, and the birth stories provided me with moments of respite and love.

If you've been concerned with wildfires and threats to our coastal ecosystems, food price spikes and other climate impacts, THIS IS THE TIME TO SPEAK UP!

With Cersei backed into a corner, fans believe that a longstanding theory is about to come true: Cersei is going to burn King's Landing to the ground with wildfire.

Sobie has run many campaigns with Wildfire, and he says, «We're often surprised — things that we didn't think were going to take off have been incredibly successful.

He laughed with wildfire in his eyes.

(This is a man who gets shit for killing his king but never gets credit for saving the city — and himself — from the king's order to burn the city with wildfire.)

Twenty employees and volunteers from the state Department of Environmental Conservation went to Northern California to assist with wildfire efforts, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced.

A new study recently published in Risk Analysis: An International Journal uncovers insights into what motivates individuals to evacuate early, wait and see, or stay and defend when faced with a wildfire threat.

«There's a lot of evidence to suggest that homeowners don't fully acknowledge the risks associated with natural disasters — in particular, the risks associated with wildfire,» McCoy said.

Now, with the wildfire spread of smartphones and tablet computers, that resistance could be melting away — and Evans plans to capitalize on the change.

The paper, «Learning to Coexist with Wildfire,» to be published in the Nov. 6 issue of the journal Nature, examines research findings from three continents and from both the natural and social sciences.

This is worrying because exposure to particles and gases associated with wildfire smoke often leads people to be hospitalized with breathing and heart - related problems.

Scientific progress and more than a century of living with wildfire have boosted Western resilience to the threat.

These findings are consistent with other studies, as highlighted in a critical review of the literature on the health impacts of wildfires published in 2016 by Reid et al. 17 Various respiratory problems in asthmatics and non-asthmatics alike, measured by physician visits, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations were found to be strongly associated with wildfire smoke exposure as well as significant declines in lung function for those without asthma.17

«We need to re-examine where and how we build our communities, so that we can learn how to better coexist with wildfire — similar to how we've adapted to other natural hazards.»

CARREIRAS M, FERREIRA AJD, VALENTE S, FLESKENS L, GONZALES - PELAYO O, RUBIO JL, STOOF, CR, COELHO COA, FERREIRA CSS, RITSEMA CJ Comparative analysis of policies to deal with wildfire risk (2014) Land Degradation & Development, vol.25, pp.92 - 103 DOI: NA

A few fun shots right before sunset... it's really hot today with some wildfire ongoing as you may see from the sky ~ ~ ~

I'll be posting additional views on paths to living with wildfire in the coming days.

If you are at all interested in paths to a more rational human relationship with wildfire at all scales, there's no better starting place than a remarkable collection of papers on «The Interaction of Fire and Mankind» published in June in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (yes, arguably the clunkiest journal name ever).

A Newsdeeply story last month by Jane Braxton Little gives a great overview of lessons for California fire policy revealed by a study of 400 years in the history of human interference with wildfire cycles in the Sierra Nevada.

I can't end without noting how much Moore's plea echoes those I've been hearing from officials, economists and scientists in the West's crowding wildfire zones, where ballooning federal budgets for fighting fires are draining money from programs that could help communities build safer and get comfortable «living with wildfire.»

(View a breakdown by CoreLogic of costs associated with wildfire risk factors.)

Not exact matches

Even Democrats» least controversial demand, for disaster funding, faced pushback in 2017, with many Republicans in the House voting against various packages for hurricane and wildfire relief.

She said her community in the Rocky Mountains is still dealing with the after effects of a devastating wildfire.

Geographic information system and mapping capabilities that go hand - in - hand with UAVs have many applications across multiple industries, from bridge, road and pipeline mapping to tracking the path of wildfires and identifying hotspots to assist firefighters, crop monitoring and insect detection for farmers, and real - time imaging for search and rescue operations.

The 2011 wildfire in Slave Lake, Alberta claimed roughly a third of the city's homes, with damages totalling $ 742 million.

They caught on like wildfire in sneaker fan circles, and since that popularity was combined with a relatively constrained supply, they started off relatively rare.

In his six years as Mayor of Calgary, Naheed Nenshi has dealt with his fair share of damage control, from catastrophic flooding in 2013, wildfires this spring in the neighbouring communities, and the ongoing fallout from the province's recession.

Originally, I had planned to interview Branson there, but the festival and race had to be canceled due to wildfires in the region that filled the air with toxic smoke.

Almost simultaneously with the storms, wildfires swept the West Coast in two bursts, one across California's wine country and another in the greater Los Angeles area.

In the last five years, as wildfires have struck California with growing frequency, he retrofitted both his office and home with materials that don't burn easily.

Years of cultivating that reputation meant that when WestJet stepped up efforts to assist with evacuations from Fort McMurray, Alberta during its devastating 2016 wildfire, it felt like a natural step for the company, not a cynical public relations maneuver.

As the California wildfires continue, with Mendocino, Napa and Sonoma counties being the hardest hit, the focus of authorities rightfully remains on rescuing people trapped in or near the inferno and attempting to control the fire.

The study also shows that the length of the wildfire season correlates closely with changes in temperature, humidity, rainfall, and other climate indicators.