je.st
news
Tag: wildfires
Worse drought, wildfires forecast for the Southwest
2014-05-07 00:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Republic: Global climate change is baking Southwestern cities, intensifying wildfires and straining water supplies, and the worst is yet to come, scientists say in the latest National Climate Assessment released Tuesday. The Earth is heating unevenly, and in recent decades, the Southwest has warmed by an average of 2 degrees Fahrenheit, said Gregg Garfin, a University of Arizona geoscientist who was a lead author of the report's Southwest section. The region will heat up an additional 2.5 to 5.5 degrees...
Tags: worse
southwest
forecast
drought
This years wildfires could incinerate the nations fire budget
2014-05-03 14:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The upcoming wildfire season could cost $400 million more to fight than the Forest Service and Interior Department have in their available budgets, according to a report those agencies released Thursday. The forecast estimates that the Forest Service and Interior will need to spend a combined total of about $1.8 billion fighting wildfires this year (though the actual amount could be significantly higher or lower), while only $1.4 billion is available for that activity. The difference will have...
Tags: years
fire
budget
nations
With Climate Change, Wildfires Getting Worse in the West
2014-04-20 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Across the western United States, wildfires grew bigger and more frequent in the past 30 years, according to a new study that blames climate change and drought for the worsening flames. "It's not just something that is localized to forest or grasslands or deserts," said lead study author Phil Dennison, a geographer at the University of Utah. "Every region in the West is experiencing an increase in fire. These fire trends are very consistent with everything we know about how climate change should...
Climate change increasing massive wildfires in West
2014-04-19 17:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Massive wildfires are on the increase in the Western USA due to rising temperatures and worsening drought from climate change, and the trend could continue in the decades to come, new research suggests. Overall, the number of large wildfires increased by a rate of seven fires a year from 1984 to 2011, while the total area damaged by fire increased at a rate of nearly 90,000 acres per year, according to the study, published this week in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical...
Tags: change
west
increasing
massive
Siberia Experiencing Mid-Summer Temperatures And Major Wildfires
2014-04-06 10:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Russia`s less than fearsome winter this year has drawn international attention. From the slushy snow at the Sochi games to December photos of grassy city parks in Siberia with locals posing in bikinis near ice-free rivers, Russia`s frozen mystique isn`t quite what it used to be. And with a record-braking warm spring in parts of Siberia, experts are warning that 2014 could be an epic year for forest fires. According to the Siberian Times, Natural Resources Minister Sergei Donskoi has warned...
Tags: major
temperatures
experiencing
siberia
Sites : [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] next »