Americans Are Moving Into Danger Zones
[ad_1] Clark also found that Americans are moving away from places prone to fleeting heat waves, like the Midwest, yet are flocking to areas with consistently higher summer heat, like…
New Mexico’s Beloved Pinyon Jay Is Losing Its Pine Habitat
[ad_1] The petition contains the first estimate of total acreage of piñon-juniper habitat currently treated by the Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service in states with pinyon…
Google Expands Flood and Wildfire Tracking to More Countries
[ad_1] A gaggle of new AI projects are coming soon from Google, including disaster monitoring tools and a service that uses machine intelligence to generate custom videos. The company announced…
Wildfire Smoke May Carry Deadly Fungi Long Distances
[ad_1] Glowing red skies and bitter ash-laden air are increasingly common across much of the US as the warming climate fuels vast wildfires. For years now, researchers have understood that…
This Giant Sprinkler System Can Protect Cities From Wildfires
[ad_1] It is 42 degrees Celsius, there has not been any rain for weeks, and the risk of a wildfire is severe. In this dusty corner of southeastern Spain in…
Watch Duty, the Crowdsourced Wildfire App, Tracks All of California’s Blazes
[ad_1] The app launched in August 2021, at the height of the 2021 fire season, which in California typically falls between June and October. At launch, the app covered only…
As Wildfires Get More Extreme, Observatories Are at Greater Risk
[ad_1] It was 4 am on June 17 when Michelle Edwards, associate director of Kitt Peak National Observatory, got the news: A wildfire had breached the road up to the…
Wildfire Smoke Is Terrible for You. But What Does It Do to Cows?
[ad_1] Other animals on the farm, too, may be vulnerable to wildfire smoke. Horses have massive lungs—the animals are born to run and suck in loads of air in the…
Europe Has Descended Into the Age of Fire
[ad_1] Wildfires are becoming more difficult to manage, he says, because the land isn’t actively controlled with vegetation-thinning and deliberate burns. “The problem is that we as a society have…