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Heat is driving off clouds that dampen California wildfires
May 31, 2018 (SPX)
"Cloud cover is plummeting in southern coastal California," said Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and...
Earlier humans used dried fungi as tinder for fires during the Neolithic period
Apr 26, 2018 (UPI)
Archaeologists discovered remains of the novel fire-starting material among the artifacts left behind by the people of la Draga, a Neolithic community located i...
Large bushfire burns near homes on Sydney outskirts
Apr 16, 2018 (AFP)
New South Wales state police are investigating the cause of the bushfire in south-western Sydney, which started on Saturday afternoon amid unseasonably warm aut...
The Swiss army knife of smoke screens
Apr 12, 2018 (SPX)
Recently, researchers reported developing a new kind of smoke that obscures both visible and IR detection. The researchers presented their work at the 255th Nat...
Wildfire intensity impacts water quality and its treatment in forested watersheds
Apr 11, 2018 (SPX)
The researchers presented their work at the 255th National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS). ACS, the world's largest scientific so...
Residents get first look at town devastated by Australia bushfire
Mar 20, 2018 (AFP)
Sixty-nine homes were incinerated in Tathra on the south coast of New South Wales, and another 39 damaged, after a blaze fanned by gusty winds and hot, dry cond...
Australia bushfires destroy homes, kill cattle
Mar 19, 2018 (AFP)
Up to 70 homes and buildings were damaged or destroyed in the picturesque seaside village of Tathra on the south coast of New South Wales when a fire tore throu...
Homes razed as bushfires rage in Australia
Mar 18, 2018 (AFP)
Dozens of blazes in western and southwestern Victoria state began on Saturday and a change in wind direction early Sunday worsened the situation. Some 40,000 he...
More homes built near wild lands leading to greater wildfire risk
Mar 14, 2018 (SPX)
And while many factors affect the risk for wildfires, new research out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows that a flurry of homebuilding near wild area...
Wildfires set to increase: Could we be sitting on a tinderbox in Europe?
Mar 08, 2018 (SPX)
These warnings come from a JRC study of factors affecting fire danger across the continent. Scientists modelled fire danger for several weather and climate scen...
Rash of forest fires breaks out in Indonesia
Feb 21, 2018 (AFP)
Fires have broken out in four provinces -- South Sumatra, Riau, West Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan -- prompting them to declare "alert emergency" status, on...
NASA Covers Wildfires from Many Sources
Jan 25, 2018 (SPX)
NASA has a fleet of Earth-observing instruments, many of which contribute to our understanding of fire in the Earth system. Satellites in orbit around the poles...
Fort McMurray researchers find simple key to risk of severe peat fires
Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)
The science behind their findings is complex, but the conclusion is simple: in a peat bog, bigger trees mean greater risk of high-severity fire. "There's a stro...
Charcoal remains could accelerate CO2 emissions after forest fires
Jan 02, 2018 (SPX)
Boreal forests are a huge carbon sink. The fine roots, not only the leaves, stems and branches of trees, largely contribute to carbon accumulation. The Russian ...
Wet winters may not dampen small wildfires
Dec 27, 2017 (SPX)
"This is the most surprising result from our study, because we would expect small fires to follow suit with larger fires," said Daniel Jensen, a Ph.D. candidate...
Thomas fire mostly contained in charred
Dec 21, 2017 (AFP)
Firefighters took advantage of weaker winds on Monday and Tuesday to battle the voracious blaze, which has already destroyed more than 1,300 structures. After t...
Returning winds churn up heightened alert in fire-hit California
Dec 20, 2017 (AFP)
The fire has already destroyed at least 272,000 acres (110,000 hectares) -- nearly the size of the city of Los Angeles -- and is just 55 percent contained since...
After the fire, charcoal goes against the grain, with the flow
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
Masiello is an expert on how carbon behaves in soil, and she noticed a vexing problem in both the scientific literature and findings from her lab: Charcoal is a...
NASA's Aqua satellite captures smoke billowing off California coast
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
Even though almost 50 percent of the fire is on national forest system land, the fire still continues to threaten structures and communities. The Santa Ana wind...
Firefighter killed in massive California blaze
Dec 15, 2017 (AFP)
San Diego-based Cal Fire engineer Cory Iverson died fighting the Thomas Fire in Ventura County, according to Cal Fire Chief Ken Pimlott, who gave no further det...
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