Indigenous people in the Amazon Basin are twice as likely to die prematurely from wildfire smoke exposure than the broader South American population. Approximately 12,000…
Merging data from multiple satellites, OPERA can help government agencies, disaster responders, and the public access data about natural and human impacts to the land….
Wet weather set the stage for prescribed burning to ramp up through April 2023 in the state’s southwest, near Perth. In April 2023, increased rainfall…
Advancement in pollution detection methods raises questions about current environmental policies. UC Riverside scientists have discovered a massive amount of methane, a highly potent greenhouse…
NASA’s ACERO project uses drones and advanced aviation technologies to improve wildland fire coordination and operations, extending the window for aerial suppression and developing airspace…
A study led by UC Irvine found that forest fires in northern latitudes are the primary source. An international team of researchers, led by Earth…
Smoke Particles From Wildfires Can Erode the Ozone Layer MIT chemists show the Australian wildfires widened the ozone hole by 10 percent in 2020. A…
Are wildfires getting worse? Yes, unfortunately, they are. We’re seeing increases in the intensity and the severity, the overall burned area of wildfires and the…
Compared to historical patterns, the “wrong kind of fire” is burning. According to a study conducted by the Safford Lab at the University of California,…
Although the outbreak of fires in early February 2023 has subsided, the burned area remained visible from space. Wildland fires raged across central and southern…
Hot, dry winds fanned the flames of widespread fires in Chile. Stoked by a summer heat wave and strong winds, widespread fires have been raging…
Over 80% of premature deaths caused by small smoke particles in the United States result directly from human-ignited fires. This is the outcome of a…
After a wildfire broke out on the morning of July 23, hundreds of residents and tourists have been evacuated from the east Aegean island of…
In summer 2022, multiple heatwaves around the world shattered temperature records and fueled wildfires. Heatwaves struck Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, in…
Satellite images show smoke from hundreds of wildland fires darkening Alaskan skies. Alaskan summers are usually described as brief and mild. In the early summer…
In early July 2022, a combination of dry weather, lightning, and unusual heat fueled hundreds of wildland fires in northern Canada. 136 fires were burning…
The top ten percent most valuable residences in the western United States are 70% more likely to be in high wildfire hazard areas than median-value…
Planting a tree appears to be a generally positive thing to do for the environment. After all, trees take in carbon dioxide, offsetting some of…
