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Displaying 15 of about 24 resultsScientists are predicting longer-burning wildfires in future decades. As Greece and Italy hit new records, does Europe need a new fire prevention strategy?Wildfires across the European Union have laid waste to approximately 260,000 hectares of land so far this year, damaging infrastructure, prompting evacuations, and displacing thousands of people.[...]…
[...]As parts of Nepal recover from their toughest wildfire season to-date - fuelled by rising heat and drought linked to climate change - firefighters and officials fear that the tools and tactics they use to combat forest fires may no longer suffice.[...]The office has built about 50 ponds across the area, but most had no water this season due to less…
Gov. Jared Polis signed a suite of wildfire prevention and recovery-related bills Friday, clearing the way for the state to stand up a new emergency insurance plan, standardize fire-resistant building codes and buy a $26 million firefighting helicopter.The 11 bills were all passed during the 2023 legislative session, which ended Monday. They represent t…
The Lebanon Forest Note articulates opportunities for supporting the protection and sustainable management of Lebanon’s forest landscapes. It considers the increasing pressure on natural resources due to anthropogenic activities/stresses, as well as their increased vulnerability to climate change and natural disasters, especially forest fires. The Note…
Two years after devastating wildfires razed 90 per cent of Lytton, B.C., reconstruction is slow and residents remain displaced and angry about it.This summer, 65 per cent of the Northwest Territories’ 46,000 residents evacuated, including almost the entire population of Yellowknife, due to a wildfire.The year 2023, in fact, marked Canada’s worst-ever wi…
The 2023 Canadian wildfire season is off to a roaring start. In Alberta, there have been more than 560 wildfires so far — the highest recorded number of fires since 2018, and the season has only just begun. Tens of thousands of residents have been evacuated and a state of emergency was declared across the province.Wildfires are not new to the region. Th…
The Montseny Biosphere Reserve (MBR) in Catalonia, Spain, is a fire-prone region. The area has become warmer over the last few decades (average of 1.2–1.4°C), increasing the risk of intense ‘megafires’1.Climate change is expected to increase the number of days with weather conditions conducive to uncontrollable wildfires. During the last few decade…
Speaker Scott K. Saiki today announced that the Final Report of the House of Representatives Lahaina Wildfire Interim Working Groups has been published. The report is a culmination of efforts from six bipartisan working groups, formed on Sept. 6, 2023, to evaluate topics related to the Lahaina wildfire.Over the past 14 weeks, the House interim working g…
In wildfire prone locations, risks are typically greatest in wildland-urban interface and peri-urban areas where vegetation, populations and built elements interact. In these interface areas, concentrations of people and settlements are more likely to be exposed to, and suffer from, the negative consequences of wildfires. The possibility that communitie…
At 3pm on April 23, an unusual warning sound was emitted from millions of phones across the UK. This was the first test of the government’s national emergency alert system, which will eventually be used to warn people about nearby flooding, fires and other hazards.Work on this has been underway for several years, and as an expert in flood risks and clim…
This report from the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission makes recommendations that outline a new approach to wildfire, one that is proactive in nature, better matched to the immense scale and scope of the crisis, and more reflective of the multi-scalar, interrelated nature of the overall system. Importantly, just as there is no single ca…
[...]In June, the wildfire smoke wafting from Canada to locations as far away as New York prompted a surge in the number of posts using the term "climate scam", according to the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a non-profit group.Questionable narratives about the wildfires and smoke included that breathing in smoke is not harmful to health, climate c…
Prescribed fire, which mimics natural fire regimes, can help improve forest health and reduce the likelihood of catastrophic wildfire. But this management tool is underused in the fire-prone U.S. West and Baja California, Mexico, due to several barriers. A paper from the University of California, Davis, pinpoints those obstacles and suggests four k…
This qualitative analysis gave a voice to older adults (aged 59-65 years and 78-87 years) to share their experiences of the 2019/2020 Australian bushfires. At baseline, the study recruited 7,485 adults in three age cohorts of 20-24 (‘20s cohort - birth years 1975-79), 4044 (40s cohort - birth years 1956-60) and 60-64 years (60s cohort - birth year…
Danger Season has begun, and wildfires are already burning: this is the climate crisis’ reality check to Congress that stronger federal wildfire policies are still needed.There are currently dozens of fires burning in the United States, and residents in New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas are living under red flag warnings for fire weather. To our north, a…