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Fires in Amazon Challenge Emission Reduction Program
June 3, 2010 — Fire occurrence rates in the Amazon have increased in 59 percent of areas with reduced deforestation and risks canceling part of the carbon savings achieved by UN measures to reduce greenhouse gas ... > full story -
Particulate Matter from Fires in the Amazon Affects Lightning Patterns
April 22, 2010 — Data on lightning patterns in the Amazon show how clouds are affected by particulate matter emitted by the fires used for slash-and-burn foresting practices. These findings could be used by climate ... > full story -
Traumatized Trees: Bug Them Enough, They Get Fired Up
April 13, 2010 — Whether forests are dying back, or just drying out, projections for warming show the Pacific Northwest is primed for more wildfires. Fuels built up after a century of rushing to suppress fires have ... > full story -
FDNY Rescue Workers Show Lasting Lung Damage from 9/11 World Trade Center Dust
April 7, 2010 — A study of nearly 13,000 rescue workers from the Fire Department of the City of New York shows that the significant proportion who suffered acute lung damage after exposure to World Trade Center dust ... > full story -
4,000 Years of Data Support Prescribed Burns in Southern Appalachians
April 6, 2010 — A new study reconstructing thousands of years of fire history in the southern Appalachians supports the use of prescribed fire, or controlled burns, as a tool to reduce the risk of wildfires, restore ... > full story -
Smoke Alarms + Sprinklers + Closed Doors = Lives Saved in Dorm Fires
April 1, 2010 — Experimenting on a university dormitory that was scheduled to be torn down, fire researchers have demonstrated that the correct combination of automatic fire sprinkler systems, smoke alarms and ... > full story -
Giant Sequoias Yield Longest Fire History from Tree Rings
March 18, 2010 — A 3,000-year record from 52 of the world's oldest trees shows that California's western Sierra Nevada was droughty and often fiery from 800 to 1300, according to new research. Scientists ... > full story -
Prescribed Burns May Help Reduce US Carbon Footprint
March 17, 2010 — The use of prescribed burns to manage Western forests may help the United States reduce its carbon footprint. A new study finds that such burns, often used by forest managers to reduce underbrush and ... > full story -
More Frequent Fires Could Aid Ecosystems
February 24, 2010 — With a changing climate there's a good chance that forest fires in the Pacific Northwest will become larger and more frequent -- and according to one expert speaking today at a professional ... > full story -
Rain, Rain, Go Online
February 19, 2010 — A new webcam at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is keeping an eye on debris and water flows that could course down nearby wildfire-stripped hillsides during a ... > full story
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