The Cram Fire in Oregon broke out on July 13 and has been burning ever since. To date, it has impacted 150 square miles of land, nearly 100,000 acres and has flirted with “megafire” status. Fueled by ...
Read Story Transcript In the spring of 2016, a wildfire so unpredictable and intense — fire chief Darby Allen referred to it as "the beast" — raged through Fort McMurray, Alta. That fire is a foreshad...
Large wildfires and megafires in Mediterranean Europe cause disproportionate social, ecological and economic impacts, yet the processes that allow some ignitions to grow into landscape-scale events re...
The grandchildren of Annie Kruger remember her lighting an Export A Green cigarette, throwing on her logger's jacket and heading out to set fires near Penticton, B.C. Before she died she was a fireke...
Between June 2019 and March 2020, thousands of wildfires spread devastation across Australia at the tragic cost of many lives, vast areas of burnt forest, and estimated economic losses upward of AU$10...
Satellites, drones and artificial-intelligence tools can improve fire management — but they must be informed by wildfire science, or we risk worsening the problem for decades.
Between June 2019 and March 2020, thousands of wildfires spread devastation across Australia at the tragic cost of many lives, vast areas of burnt forest, and estimated economic losses upward of AU$10...
On the evening of July 28, 2021, the largest wildfire for the last century broke out in four different locations in a Mediterranean catchment in southern Türkiye; arson cases which came on the heels o...
On the evening of July 28, 2021, the largest wildfire for the last century broke out in four different locations in a Mediterranean catchment in southern Türkiye; arson cases which came on the heels o...
Now that weather related disasters like “megafires,” and “superstorms” have become (superlatives notwithstanding) routine, some public companies have begun detailing for investors the risks posed by c...
Transcript A fire chief in rural Oregon learned while fighting the biggest blaze of her career last week that her own home had been destroyed by its flames. Christiana Rainbow Plews, known as Chief Ra...
Even for those who've spent days in the presence of this massive fire, tramping through ash and soot and carpets of nails from burned-down houses, the sight of Colina Vista Street in the city of Ventu...
In flammable landscapes around the globe, longer fire seasons with larger, more severely burnt areas are causing social and economic impacts that are unsustainable. The Australian 2019–20 fire season ...
A page-turning memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote lookout tower and her eyewitness account of the increasingly unpredictable nature of wildfire in the ...
Peatlands are one of the staples of the boreal forest that sweeps across Canada. The 185 billion tonnes of mossy wetlands across the country can act as firebreaks, literally dampening the flames as th...
At first glance, it looks like Mike Flannigan is playing in a pile of dry garden wood chips on the campus of the University of Alberta, but really it's science at work. "We have a simple test. If I dr...
In the summer of 2012, two fires affected Mediterranean ecosystems in the eastern Iberian Peninsula. The size of these fires was at the extreme of the historical variability (megafires). Animals are t...
Australia’s 2019–2020 ‘Black Summer’ bushfires burnt more than 8 million hectares of vegetation across the south-east of the continent, an event unprecedented in the last 200 years. Here we report the...
