Wildfire News

Posted May 13, 2013:

• Satellites See Double Jeopardy for Southern California Fire Season
• Physicists Light 'Magnetic Fire' to Reveal Energy's Path

Posted May 1, 2013:

• Progress in Introducing Cleaner Cook Stoves for Billions of People Worldwide

Posted April 29, 2013:

• Smoke Signals: How Burning Plants Tell Seeds to Rise from the Ashes

Posted April 23, 2013:

• Wildfires Can Burn Hot Without Ruining Soil

Posted March 29, 2013:

• Sensory Helmet Could Mean Firefighters Are Not Left in the Dark

Posted March 11, 2013:

• How Earthquake Damage Can Impact Building Fire Safety Performance

Posted March 6, 2013:

• Bats Not Bothered by Forest Fires, Study Finds

Posted February 27, 2013:

• Molecule Does Double Duty in Stopping Asthma Attacks

Posted February 26, 2013:

• Infrared Digital Holography Allows Firefighters to See Through Flames, Image Moving People

Posted February 21, 2013:

• Science Synthesis to Help Guide Land Management of U.S. Forests

Posted February 14, 2013:

• Scientists Develop Improved Fire Management Tools for Africa's Savannas

Posted January 27, 2013:

• Measuring the Consequence of Forest Fires on Public Health

Posted January 23, 2013:

• New Way to Identify 'Smoked' Grapes and Wines

Posted January 16, 2013:

• New 'Social' Chromosome Discovered in the Red Fire Ant

Posted January 8, 2013:

• Reduction in Air Pollution from Wood Stoves Associated With Significantly Reduced Risk of Death

Posted December 19, 2012:

• Will the World End on December 21, 2012? What We Know and Don't Know About Forecasting Natural Disasters

Posted December 10, 2012:

• As Amazon Urbanizes, Rural Fires Burn Unchecked

Posted December 5, 2012:

• Invasive Grass Fuels Increased Fire Activity in the West
• Fire and Ice: Wildfires Darkening Greenland Snowpack, Increasing Melting

Posted December 4, 2012:

• U.S Wildfire Risk Worsening, According to Climate Projections

Posted November 26, 2012:

• Did You See That? How Could You Miss It?

Posted November 25, 2012:

• Health and Environmental Risk in Flame Retardants in Building Insulation

Posted November 8, 2012:

• Burn Doctors Treat More Patients During Cold-Weather Months, Urge Caution With Home Heating

Posted October 31, 2012:

• Do Australia's Giant Fire-Dependent Trees Belong in the Rainforest?

Posted October 28, 2012:

• Repopulation of Countryside Is Essential Tool to Avoid Major Fires, Spanish Experts Say

Posted October 23, 2012:

• Zeroing in on the 'Science of Sound Propagation' in Burning Buildings

Posted October 22, 2012:

• New Antidote for Smoke-Related Cyanide Toxicity Shows Promise

Posted October 19, 2012:

• Forest Fires Linked to Low Temperatures Two Years Before

Posted September 21, 2012:

• Wildfires in Washington State

Posted September 14, 2012:

• Study Shows Wildfires' Positive and Negative Economic Impacts

Posted August 14, 2012:

• European Forest Fire Information System: Current Situation in Europe

Posted August 8, 2012:

• Unusual Weather Events Identified During 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires in Victoria, Australia

Posted August 2, 2012:

• Climate Warming Refuted as Reason for Plant Shifts in High-Profile 2008 Study

Posted July 24, 2012:

• Active Forest Management to Reduce Fire Could Help Protect Northern Spotted Owl
• Washington's Forests Will Lose Stored Carbon as Area Burned by Wildfire Increases

Posted July 12, 2012:

• To Extinguish a Hot Flame, Scientists Studied Cold Plasma

Posted July 2, 2012:

• Native Plant Restoration Not Enough to Maintain Tropical Dry Forests in Hawaii

Posted June 26, 2012:

• NASA Satellites See Wildfires Across Colorado

Posted June 22, 2012:

• NASA Satellite Sees Several Western U.S. Fires Blazing

Posted June 12, 2012:

• Climate Change to Alter Global Fire Risk
• Satellite Sees Smoke from Siberian Fires Reach the US Coast

Posted June 7, 2012:

• U.S. Experienced Second Warmest May, Warmest Spring on Record, NOAA Reports

Posted June 1, 2012:

• Open-Fire Cooking May Affect Child Cognitive Development

Posted May 31, 2012:

• Wildfire and an Example of Its Important Link to the Ecosystem

Posted May 30, 2012:

• Effects of Trees Killed by Bark Beetles on Wildfire

Posted May 23, 2012:

• Fire Beetles May Revolutionize Early-Warning Systems for Forest Fires

Posted May 16, 2012:

• Ancient Tree-Ring Records from Southwest U.S. Suggest Today's Megafires Are Truly Unusual

Posted May 10, 2012:

• First Forecast Calls for Mild Amazon Fire Season in 2012

Posted April 13, 2012:

• Engineers Put Five-Story Building on Seismic Shake Table to Test Earthquake and Fire Readiness

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