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Improving Post-Fire Forest Management to Promote Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Ecosystems
May 4, 2011 — The occurrence of forest fires is a natural phenomenon in Mediterranean ecosystems. Researchers in Spain recently undertook a project in order to ascertain the extent to which forest fires and common ... > full story -
Comprehensive Study Reveals Patterns in Firefighter Fatalities
April 12, 2011 — Researchers found that cultural factors in the work environment that promote getting the job done as quickly as possible with whatever resources available lead to an increase in line-of-duty ... > full story -
Managing Grazing Lands With Fire Improves Profitability, Agricultural Experts Say
March 28, 2011 — Recent fire and brush control studies in the Rolling Plains of Texas on a working ranch-scale showed the benefits and limitations of managed fires for reducing mesquite encroachment while sustaining ... > full story -
Taming the Flame: Electrical Wave 'Blaster' Could Provide New Way to Extinguish Fires
March 27, 2011 — An exciting discovery could underpin a new genre of fire-fighting devices, including sprinkler systems that suppress fires not with water, but with zaps of electric current, without soaking and ... > full story -
NIST Releases Final Report on Charleston Sofa Store Fire
March 16, 2011 — The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has released its final report on its study of the June 18, 2007, fire at Sofa Super Store in Charleston, S.C., that trapped and killed nine ... > full story -
Old-Growth Tree Stumps Tell the Story of Fire in the Upper Midwest
March 14, 2011 — Researchers have constructed a 226-year history of fire in southern Illinois by looking at fire scars in tree stumps. Their study, the most in-depth fire history reported for the upper Midwest, ... > full story -
Fewer Than One-Third of Children Ages 5-15 Will Wake Up to Home Smoke Alarms, Study Suggests
March 11, 2011 — An Australian study to determine the likelihood of school-aged children waking up to their home smoke alarm found that 78 percent of children slept through a smoke alarm sounding for 30 ... > full story -
Fire Paradox: Learning to Live With Fire
February 25, 2011 — European forests are regularly attacked by fire with often disastrous environmental, economic and social consequences. The most common reaction has been to fight fires at all costs because the ... > full story -
Frequent, Severe Fires Turn Alaskan Forests Into a Carbon Production Line
February 18, 2011 — Alaskan forests used to be important players in Mother Nature's game plan for regulating carbon dioxide levels in the air. It's elementary earth science: Trees take up carbon dioxide and give off ... > full story -
Experts Question Aspects of Prescribed Burning
February 18, 2011 — Prescribed burning to reduce the hazards of bushfires may do more harm than good in some circumstances, according to a group of leading environmental ... > full story
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