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Learning to live with wildfires: how communities can become fire-adapted
2016-07-07 08:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Conversation: In recent years wildfire seasons in the western United States have become so intense that many of us who make our home in dry, fire-prone areas are grappling with how to live with fire. When I moved to a small town in eastern Washington in 2004, I thought I was prepared for the reality of wildfires. As a fire ecologist, I had studied climate change and knew the predictions of hotter, drier and longer fire seasons. But the severity and massive size of recent wildfires in our area have highlighted...
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How smoke from wildfires affects the health of those who live nearby
2016-07-07 00:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Weekly: This year's wildfire season is off to a dramatic and early start, and so is the worry about what that smoke is doing to our lungs. Big wildfires started burning in Southern California in early June, and since then, air-quality agencies have been warning residents that pollution from those Southern California fires could make breathing a risky pastime. Residents of cities as far away as Las Vegas are being advised to limit their exposure to the smoke from Southern California fires. Smoke from wildfires...
Report: climate change will make wildfires worse
2016-07-02 21:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Spectrum: A rash of wildfires have burned across parts of the southwestern U.S. at an alarming frequency early in the 2016 fire season, and a new report suggests climate change is partly to blame. There are now more large fires burning across the region than at any time in the past 40 years, and the area being burned has increased as well, according to a report by Climate Central, a nonprofit organization of scientists. Since 2010, Utah has seen an average of more than 40,000 more acres burning each...
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What California Can Learn From How the South Manages Wildfires
2016-07-02 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
City Lab: There are three things that give him joy in life, says Johnny Stowe: Beer, my grandkids, and fire. Not a campsite fire, or a house fire, but fire that Stowe prescribes and manages across the wild lands of South Carolina. As a heritage-preserve manager for the states department of natural resources, Stowe works with crews to set ablaze predetermined swathes of land around the state, carefully burning off undergrowth with low-intensity flames along carefully planned control lines. Every year, in...
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As wildfires challenge California, the causes go beyond climate
2016-07-01 11:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: On a chain-link fence along Route 39 hangs a homemade poster, peppered with hearts, thanking firefighters and police. The sign, one of a handful scattered across town, salutes efforts to battle the San Gabriel Complex fire, twin blazes that had erupted on June 20 in the mountains of Angeles National Forest just to the north of the city. Within a day of igniting, the fire had burned through nearly 5,000 acres and forced hundreds to evacuate. Nearly a week passed before the US Forest Service...
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