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Climate Change to Alter Global Fire Risk
June 12, 2012 — Climate change is widely expected to disrupt future fire patterns around the world, with some regions, such as the western United States, seeing more frequent fires within the next 30 years, ... > full story -
Satellite Sees Smoke from Siberian Fires Reach the US Coast
June 12, 2012 — Fires burning in Siberia recently sent smoke across the Pacific Ocean and into the US and Canada. Images of data taken by the nation's newest Earth-observing satellite tracked aerosols from the fires ... > full story -
U.S. Experienced Second Warmest May, Warmest Spring on Record, NOAA Reports
June 7, 2012 — According to NOAA scientists, the average temperature for the contiguous U.S. during May was 64.3°F, 3.3°F above the long-term average, making it the second warmest May on record. The month's ... > full story -
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Open-Fire Cooking May Affect Child Cognitive Development
June 1, 2012 — Children exposed to open-fire cooking in developing countries experience difficulty with memory, problem-solving and social skills. Research in the past decade has identified numerous health risks to ... > full story -
Wildfire and an Example of Its Important Link to the Ecosystem
May 31, 2012 — A dilemma is smouldering -- even as wildfires top the current headlines. New research highlights the practice of aggressive fire suppression by using studies at Lake Tahoe as an active ... > full story -
Effects of Trees Killed by Bark Beetles on Wildfire
May 30, 2012 — A recent report analyzing a range of published studies on the impact of bark beetles on trees in the US and Canada provides a more complete picture of the effect of this destructive insect on ... > full story -
Fire Beetles May Revolutionize Early-Warning Systems for Forest Fires
May 23, 2012 — Black fire beetles of the genus Melanophila possess unusual infrared sensors. It seems that they use these to detect forest fires, even from great distances, since their wood-eating larvae can only ... > full story -
Ancient Tree-Ring Records from Southwest U.S. Suggest Today's Megafires Are Truly Unusual
May 16, 2012 — Today's mega forest fires of the southwestern U.S. are truly unusual and exceptional in the long-term record, suggests an unprecedented study that examined 1,500 years of ancient tree ring and fire ... > full story -
First Forecast Calls for Mild Amazon Fire Season in 2012
May 10, 2012 — Forests in the Amazon Basin are expected to be less vulnerable to wildfires this year, according to the first forecast from a new fire severity ... > full story -
Engineers Put Five-Story Building on Seismic Shake Table to Test Earthquake and Fire Readiness
April 13, 2012 — What happens when you put a fully equipped five-story building, which includes an intensive care unit, a surgery suite, piping and air conditioning, fire barriers and even a working elevator, through ... > full story
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