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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Satellites See Double Jeopardy for Southern California Fire Season

New insights into two factors that are creating a potentially volatile Southern California wildfire season come from an ongoing project using NASA and ...  > full story

Physicists Light 'Magnetic Fire' to Reveal Energy's Path

Physicists have uncovered how energy is released and dispersed in magnetic materials in a process akin to the spread of forest fires, a finding that has ...  > full story

Smoke Signals: How Burning Plants Tell Seeds to Rise from the Ashes

In the spring following a forest fire, trees that survived the blaze explode in new growth and plants sprout in abundance from the ...  > full story

Wildfires Can Burn Hot Without Ruining Soil

When scientists torched an entire 22-acre watershed in Portugal in a recent experiment, their research yielded a counterintuitive result: Large, hot fires do not necessarily beget hot, ...  > full story

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Foresters and geographers have mapped the locations in the Santa Monica mountains where the most destructive fires are likely to start. To make their. ...  > full story

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