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Rapid Rise in Wildfires in Large Parts of Canada? Ecologists Find Threshold Values for Natural Wildfires
December 16, 2011 — Large forest regions in Canada are apparently about to experience rapid change. Based on models, scientists can now show that there are threshold values for wildfires just like there are for ... > full story -
Study Finds Failure Points in Firefighter Protective Equipment
December 7, 2011 — In fire experiments conducted in uniformly furnished, but vacant Chicago-area townhouses, researchers uncovered temperature and heat-flow conditions that can seriously damage facepiece lenses on ... > full story -
Sea Change Can Forecast South American Wildfires
November 10, 2011 — Tiny temperature changes on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans provide an excellent way to forecast wildfires in South American rainforests, new research ... > full storyMore: -
Aerial Robot System Can Save Firefighter Lives, Study Suggests
November 9, 2011 — A new system built around an unmanned aerial vehicle has faced a real-world test in a West Virginia controlled forest burn, and proved its ... > full story -
Delaware Fire Service Offers Important Lessons for Fire Prevention Programs Nationwide
November 7, 2011 — Fire and life safety programs in Delaware offer a strategic, comprehensive and coordinated approach to fire prevention. A new study highlights the diversity of prevention initiatives underway in the ... > full story -
Current Training Programs May Not Prepare Firefighters to Combat Stress
November 2, 2011 — Current training programs may not effectively prepare firefighters for the range of scenarios they are likely to encounter, according to human factors/ergonomics ... > full story -
Wetlands: Drying Intensifying Wildfires, Carbon Release Ninefold, Study Finds
November 1, 2011 — Drying of northern wetlands has led to much more severe peatland wildfires and nine times as much carbon released into the atmosphere, according to new ... > full story -
Savannas and Forests in a Battle of the Biomes
October 31, 2011 — Climate change, land use and other human-driven factors could pit savannas and forests against each other by altering the elements found by researchers to stabilize the two. Without this harmony, the ... > full story -
Production of Biofuel from Forests Will Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Study Finds
October 23, 2011 — The largest and most comprehensive study yet done on the effect of biofuel production from West Coast forests has concluded that an emphasis on bioenergy would increase carbon dioxide emissions from ... > full story -
Visual Tour of Earth's Fires
October 20, 2011 — NASA has released a series of new satellite data visualizations that show tens of millions of fires detected worldwide from space since ... > full story
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