FIRESTORM

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Fires triple in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands in 2020
Jul 24, 2020 (AFP)
Brazil's national space agency, INPE, identified 3,506 fires from January 1 to July 22 in the Pantanal, a 192 percent increase from 2019 and the most for the pe...
Russian wildfire smoke chokes Siberian cities
Jul 16, 2020 (AFP)
More than 100 firefighters and volunteers were trying to douse the flames of a fire outside the city of Yugorsk in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District, just on...
Nearly 300 wildfires in Siberia amid record warm weather
Jul 11, 2020 (AFP)
Freakishly warm weather across large swathes of Siberia since January, combined with low soil moisture, have contributed to a resurgence of wildfires that devas...
Ukraine pins hopes on weather to beat deadly forest fires
Jul 08, 2020 (AFP)
Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said the situation was improving and he had seen no new fires during a fly-over with President Volodymyr Zelensky and other senio...
Hundreds battle deadly Ukraine forest fire
Jul 07, 2020 (AFP)
Water-bombing planes were also sent to the scene of the blaze in the Lugansk region, which is partially under the control of pro-Russia separatists, Arsen Avako...
Brazilian Amazon sees worst June in 13 years for forest fires
Jul 02, 2020 (AFP)
June marks the start of the dry period and there were 2,248 recorded fires, leaving analysts expecting a worse year for the rainforest than the devastating 2019...
ASTER sees Arizona's Bighorn fire burn scar from space
Jul 01, 2020 (JPL)
NASA's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument aboard the Terra satellite imaged some of the burned area on June 29. I...
Indonesia province declares state of emergency over forest fire risk
Jul 01, 2020 (AFP)
Central Kalimantan on Borneo island was ravaged last year by fires blamed for blanketing swathes of Southeast Asia in toxic haze. Last year's blazes were the wo...
Self-powered alarm fights forest fires, monitors environment
Jun 26, 2020 (SPX)
As detailed in the journal Advanced Functional Materials, the device, known as MC-TENG - short for multilayered cylindrical triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) -...
Ukraine scientists see signs of hope after huge Chernobyl fires
Jun 12, 2020 (AFP)
The scene he is taking in would not be out of place on the set of a sci-fi post-apocalyptic movie. In the spring a huge fire battered the Chernobyl exclusion zo...
wildfires can alter arctic watersheds for 50 years
May 29, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have found that some of the aftereffects of a burn, like decreased carbon and increased nitrogen, can last up to ...
Indonesia starts cloud seeding to keep forest fires at bay
May 28, 2020 (AFP)
Last year's fires were the worst since 2015 due to dry weather, with some 1.6 million hectares (3.95 million acres) of land, mostly on Sumatra and Borneo island...
Scientists warn of 'zombie fires' in the Arctic
May 27, 2020 (AFP)
"We have seen satellite observations of active fires that hint that 'zombie' fires might have reignited," said Mark Parrington, a senior scientist and wildfire ...
Australia bushfire smoke linked to hundreds of deaths
May 26, 2020 (AFP)
More than 30 people died as a direct cause of the blazes and thousands of homes were destroyed in late 2019 and early 2020, leaving affected communities devasta...
Govt inquiry warns Australia bushfires not a 'one-off event'
May 25, 2020 (AFP)
The government was widely criticised for its response to the devastating blazes -- including Prime Minister Scott Morrison who holidayed in Hawaii at the heigh ...
Bushfire-hit Australians still in tents as virus slows recovery
May 25, 2020 (AFP)
Inside a small tin shed on Australia's south-east coast, a family of six takes refuge from the cold as the southern hemisphere winter begins to bite. The struct...
Low-severity fires enhance long-term carbon retention of peatlands
May 22, 2020 (SPX)
The smaller fires help protect the stored carbon and enhance the peatlands' long-term storage of it. The flash heating of moist peat during less severe surface ...
Tracking the tinderbox: Stanford scientists map wildfire fuel moisture across western US
May 22, 2020 (SPX)
Anticipating where a fire is likely to ignite and how it might spread requires information about how much burnable plant material exists on the landscape and it...
Pandemic throws up additional challenges for US firefighters
May 19, 2020 (AFP)
"We're focused on COVID-19, we're focused on coronavirus mitigation, trying to do our best to suppress the spread while at the same time we've got to mitigate a...
Water loss in northern peatlands threatens to intensify fires, global warming
May 12, 2020 (SPX)
Manuel Helbig and Mike Waddington from McMaster's School of Geography and Earth Sciences gathered observational data from collaborators in countries across the ...
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