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Fire And Structural Safety A Hot Topic For Engineers, And The Nation
June 5, 2007 — Earthquakes and explosions grab the headlines when structures are toppled, but often the Achilles' heel of engineering is fire. Fire is the follow-up act in disasters. Yet in a research world awash ... > full story -
Daily Forecasts Track Smoke From Southern Fires
May 30, 2007 — Scientists are producing daily smoke forecasts which help communities determine potential health risks caused by current wildfires across south Georgia and north ... > full story -
Firefighters Report Increase In Lung Illness From World Trade Center Dust
May 9, 2007 — New-onset sarcoidosis of the lung is on the rise among Ground Zero firefighters, according to a new ... > full story -
Wildfires In South America Lead To Carbon Monoxide Over Australia
May 9, 2007 — Using data from the SCIAMACHY instrument aboard ESA's environmental satellite Envisat, scientists have determined that the carbon monoxide hovering over Australia during the wildfire season largely ... > full story -
How To Manage Forests In Hurricane Impact Zones
April 23, 2007 — Forest Service researchers have developed an adaptive strategy to help natural resource managers in the southeastern United States both prepare for and respond to disturbance from major hurricanes. ... > full story -
Non-Smokers Suffered More Than Smokers From Smoke Inhalation After Major Fire
April 12, 2007 — Researchers studied the chronic effects of smoke inhalation from examining the lungs of 21 survivors of The Station fire (February 20, 2003). While the overall results of the study showed variability ... > full story -
Wildfires And Logging: Are Severe Reburns Likely With Or Without Logging?
April 9, 2007 — A new study on the effects of timber harvest following wildfire shows that the potential for a recently burned forest to reburn can be high with or without logging. This study demonstrates that the ... > full story -
Slow But Sure -- Burned Forest Lands Regenerate Naturally
April 4, 2007 — A new study of forest lands that burned in the 1990s in northern California and southwestern Oregon has concluded there is a "fair to excellent" chance that an adequate level of conifers will ... > full story -
Battlefield And Terrorist Explosions Pose New Health Risks
March 27, 2007 — Scientists are reporting new evidence from experiments with laboratory rats that high concentrations of nitrogen dioxide gas -- inhaled for even very brief periods following fires, explosions of ... > full story -
Emergency Responses Greatly Increase Risk To Firefighters Of Dying On Duty From Heart Disease
March 21, 2007 — In a new, large-scale study, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health examined the link between CHD deaths and firefighting and looked at specific job duties to see which might increase ... > full story
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