Normally, many bushfires ease overnight, as temperatures fall and moisture in the air rises. But these are not normal times, as Queensland’s early-season fires are showing
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As the climate warms, devastating fires are increasingly likely. The 2020 fires pushed the Southern Rockies beyond the historical average. Is there hope for the Northern Rockies?
Wildfire smoke, even from fires far away, carries potentially harmful gases that, once inside, tend to stick around. An air quality specialist offers an easy, cheap, effective way to deal with it.
We sampled 118 rivers and creeks before and after the Black Summer bushfires, searching for platypus DNA. Here’s what we found.
Many people are asking if Australian authorities are ready for the fire season. The real question to ask is – are we ready as individuals?
If you were pregnant or parenting during Australia’s 2019–20 summer of smoke and fire, chances are you felt acutely anxious – and grappling with impossible responsibility.
Working a day on the firelines as a wildland firefighter can require the endurance of riding the Tour de France. That takes a toll, as a physiologist explains.
Alarmingly, about half the people exposed to wildfires in Washington and Oregon were those least able to afford to protect their homes, evacuate safely and recover.
A therapist shares advice for harnessing your stress over climate change and other environmental harms and putting it to work.
We used satellite data to create global maps of where and how fires are burning. Fire season lasts two weeks longer than it used to and fires are more intense. But there are regional differences.
Climate assemblies may just provide the breakthrough required to develop popular, just and sustainable climate and energy policies.
The future of the traditional holiday getaway looks bleak.
Most fire climate regimes in Australia shifted abruptly around the year 2000 – greatly increasing fire risk.
Research shows gender-based violence increases in the aftermath of disasters. Governments must incorporate ways of addressing it into their disaster response plans.
Climate change is making fires more frequent and severe in the Canary Islands, pushing plants to their evolutionary limit.
Forest thinning and controlled burns take away fuel for fires, but the US can only treat so many acres. Which ones to choose?
Thick smoke pouring in from Canada’s wildfires canceled baseball games and pushed air quality in major US cities to the worst in the world.
An expert in disaster law explains the steps for securing aid, what to do if everything is lost and the deadlines to watch.
Natural hazards like wildfires are adding yet more challenges to the difficulties many migrant workers face.
Losing power also has real consequences for people’s businesses, livelihoods and potentially their health and safety.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Wildfire Research, Swansea University
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Fellow, Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Civil, Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University
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Tenured Scientist (IMB-CSIC, Spain) & Honorary Associate Prof. (SU, UK), Swansea University
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Professor of Fire Ecology, University of Montana
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Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton
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Professor of Engineering, University of California, Merced
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Wildfire Specialist at the University of California Cooperative Extension; Adjunct Professor Bren School of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Assistant Professor of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University
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Associate Professor of Geography and Director, Earth Lab, University of Colorado Boulder
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Sr. Associate Vice President for Research and Research Professor, University of Oregon
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Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine
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Emeritus Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
