#Wildfire
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 23/11/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 08/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018675
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 29/11/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 08/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018693
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 29/11/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 08/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018713
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 25/11/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 08/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018673
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 25/11/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 08/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018674
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 29/11/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 08/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018688
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 02/12/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 08/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018711
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 02/12/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 08/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018712
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 02/12/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 08/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018690
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 30/11/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 08/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018692
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Sudan
On 01/12/2023, a forest fire started in Sudan, until 08/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018691
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 07/12/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 08/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018695
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 08/12/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 08/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018694
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 06/12/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 08/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018697
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 06/12/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 08/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018696
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 05/12/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 08/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018698
Burned redwoods drawing on long-stored energy to rejuvenate. Gift link: https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/redwood-trees-18538393.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL2NhbGlmb3JuaWEtd2lsZGZpcmVzL2FydGljbGUvcmVkd29vZC10cmVlcy0xODUzODM5My5waHA%3D&time=MTcwMjAwMDcxMTUxMA%3D%3D&rid=OTgyMDI5MWQtNmI5NS00N2U3LTk5NTYtMzVhMzA0NmY1YWZj&sharecount=MQ%3D%3D
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 29/11/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 07/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018693
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 30/11/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 07/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018692
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 01/12/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 07/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018682
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 03/12/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 07/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018681
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 04/12/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 07/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018684
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 25/11/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 07/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018673
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 03/12/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 07/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018686
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 25/11/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 07/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018674
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 23/11/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 07/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018675
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 04/12/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 07/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018689
🔥 Important piece from our friends PPIC on the threat of California #wildfire smoke to children. In part because they're outside more, kids are especially vulnerable to health problems tied to poor air quality, Shalini Mustala writes.
Read the blog here: https://bit.ly/46OEJP4
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Brazil
On 21/11/2023, a forest fire started in Brazil, until 06/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018678
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 04/12/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 06/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018684
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 01/12/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 06/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018682
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 03/12/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 06/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018686
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 26/11/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 06/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018672
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 25/11/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 06/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018673
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 29/11/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 06/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018688
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 25/11/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 06/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018674
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 03/12/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 06/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018687
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 23/11/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 06/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018675
🚨 Green forest fire alert in Australia
On 30/11/2023, a forest fire started in Australia, until 06/12/2023.
More details: https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=WF&eventid=1018677
One of the more innovative items announced by the Governor’s office when it comes to disaster relief measures is the creation of a Lahaina Recovery Fund. In a press release announcing the measure, the Governor’s Office said that the concept was similar to the 9/11 Fund created in the aftermath of the destruction of the […]
#Hawaii #Maui #Lahaina #Wildfire #Government #EmergencyManagement
https://www.hawaiireporter.com/the-lahaina-recovery-fund/
Sharing this open #paleofire #PhD position at the University of Aberdeen, UK 🔥
Apply Raman spectroscopy to #peatland cores and experimentally burned samples to reconstruct fire intensity changes throughout the past millennia- sounds like a great project!
#wildfire #inciweb #ncwg NMCAF Ojo Sarco Piles Rio Trampas Project Last updated:
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The type of incident is Prescribed Fire and involves the following unit(s) Carson National Forest.
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State: New Mexico
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 36° 06 05 Longitude: 105° 46 45
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NOTE: All fire perimeters and points are approximations.
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Incident Overview: Piles created from 137 acres of thinning to the south of Ojo Sarco, NM, are ready for prescribed fire tr http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident-information/nmcaf-ojo-sarco-piles-rio-trampas-project
How to Protect the #MentalHealth of #Farmers | The Tyee https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/12/04/Protect-Mental-Health-Farmers/ “During the peak of #wildfire season the B.C. Ministry of Agriculture and Food said there were 175 agricultural properties under evacuation order or alert.
But you’ll rarely hear a farmer complain,….
“Just last week someone was telling me how their grandpa used to say ’don’t cry because crying won’t fix anything,” she adds.
But that doesn’t mean farmers aren’t suffering.”
Hey @paleofire, I have a student that I am helping with his dissertation project and he needs to count #charcoal. Do you guys have any go to texts for lab and counting methods? I have not done this type of analysis before. #wildfire #palaeoecology #paleoecology #microscopy #sedimentology @geoscience
#wildfire #inciweb #ncwg NMCAF Willow Piles Rio TusasLower San Antonio Landscape Restoration Project Last updated:
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The type of incident is Prescribed Fire and involves the following unit(s) Carson National Forest.
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State: New Mexico
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 36° 39 47 Longitude: 106° 09 44
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NOTE: All fire perimeters and points are approximations.
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Incident Overview: Fire crews plan to treat piles created from over 500 acres of thinning http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident-information/nmcaf-willow-piles-rio-tusaslower-san-antonio-landscape-restoration-project
To use or not to use the term "#megafire"? 🔥
After Linley et al. (2022) suggested a standardized definition (> 10,000 ha extent) to reduce ambiguity, a new perspective by Stoof et al. (2023) recommends not using the term at all in science:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.13791
I'm a fan of clear definitions and standardization of #terminology, but at the same time also wondering if we really need a special term for fires of a certain extent?
Large #wildfire 🔥blowup NW of Santiago, #Chile 🇨🇱 in northwesterly winds seen by #GOES16 🛰️yesterday afternoon with smoke blowing across the Andes
#IncendioForestal
Gov. Josh Green is proposing using taxpayer and private funds to build new housing and to pay home owners well above market value if they rent long term. Short-term rentals would simply be banned.
#Maui #Hawaii #Housing #Wildfire #Lahaina
https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/11/hawaii-governor-wants-to-entice-maui-property-owners-to-rent-to-fire-victims/
Ancient redwoods recover from fire by sprouting 1000-year-old buds
After a devastating conflagration, trees regrow using energy stored long ago
#forestry ##redwoods #wildfire #california #usa #climatecrisis #climatechange
https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-redwoods-recover-fire-sprouting-1000-year-old-buds
Summer season #bushfire forecast for #Australia 🇦🇺 released.
"In Australia, background warming trends and changes in rainfall patterns have loaded the odds in favour of particular climate phenomena in any given year including:
▪ the chance of above average and extreme temperatures
▪ reduced average rainfall over the southern half of the continent
▪ increased heavy rainfall when meteorological conditions are favourable
▪ a longer fire season, with more extreme fire danger days"
#Wildfire #Climatechange #ClimateCrisis
https://www.afac.com.au/docs/default-source/bushfire-seasonal-outlook/summer-2023/afac-seasonal-bushfire-outlook_summer_2023.pdf
We stand and watch with caution and care
As Maui prepares for heavy rains that no one can bear
The ash from August's wildfire in Lahaina
Could make it to the storm drains, but we won't let it happen
For Maui officials have come to the rescue
And their efforts to protect us we do not refuse
#maui #wildfire #protection #prevention #ode #poetry
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/maui-officials-standby-stop-heavy-rains-sending-ash-105259393
Vegetation Fire in Boyle Heights -- follow on WatchDuty #LosAngeles #wildfire https://share.watchduty.org/i/15129#allow-back
#Emergency #egress, #hfxALERT debated as Halifax regional council reviews #wildfire reports
Story by me
#wildfire #inciweb #ncwg NMCAF KiowaSan Cristobal Wildland Urban Interface Project Last updated:
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The type of incident is Prescribed Fire and involves the following unit(s) Carson National Forest.
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State: New Mexico
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 36° 35 06 Longitude: 105° 38 27
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NOTE: All fire perimeters and points are approximations.
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Incident Overview: The Carson National Forest is implementing the Kiowa-San Cristobal Wildland Urban Interf http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident-information/nmcaf-kiowasan-cristobal-wildland-urban-interface-project
#wildfire #inciweb #ncwg NMCAF Highway 150 Corridor Wildland Urban Interface Project Last updated:
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The type of incident is Prescribed Fire and involves the following unit(s) Carson National Forest.
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State: New Mexico
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 36° 34 27 Longitude: 105° 30 41
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NOTE: All fire perimeters and points are approximations.
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Incident Overview: The eight-mile ride up Highway 150 from Valdez, NM, takes visitors through a narrow, f http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident-information/nmcaf-highway-150-corridor-wildland-urban-interface-project
#Québec's hardwood #trees could move north. Here's how that could affect the #boreal forest landscape
“… #wildfire regimes could be modified by the differences in flammability of hardwoods and conifers.
The presence of temperate deciduous trees, which are less flammable than conifers, could LENGTHEN fire cycles. “
Now we've just gotta do a controlled burn across the place every ~10 years to keep things healthy and prepared for #wildfire. And do the occasional dead tree work where appropriate (versus leaving snags) to keep fuel loading down.
I'm really curious to see how many mushrooms there will be in the spring. And I wonder what other new things we'll observe!
I think some of the folks who participated in the training portion of the burn will come back next year to observe the results.
https://www.virginiamercury.com/2023/11/22/all-virginia-wildfires-except-matts-creek-contained-say-officials/ Helpful update on the recent rash of #wildfire s in dry, smoky #virginia . #climate #smoke #airquality
Another thing I'm thankful for: the wealth of FOSS/open source tools that just keep getting better and better.
Today's blog post, a belated #30DayMapChallenge entry 3, polygons: a tutorial on mapping fire areas with #qgis for people who haven't used QGIS much. It's a great tool.
https://shallowsky.com/blog/mapping/fire-perimeters.html
#mapping #gis #WildFire
"Alarming news from New Zealand scientists suggests the #ozone layer might not be recovering after all.
The research published in Nature Communications suggests the Antarctic ozone layer has reduced by 26% since 2004, contrary to previous reports of recovery by actions taken under an agreement called the Montreal Protocol.
The authors say #wildfire and #volcanic aerosols together with greenhouse gas emissions probably explain recent setbacks with record large, long-lived ozone holes re-emerging over Antarctica during Spring since 2020." #climate https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/climate/ozone-layer-not-recovering/
2023 Canadian wildfires impacted air quality as far away as Europe and China, study finds #Canada #environment #wildfire #wildfires #AirQuality #Europe #China https://phys.org/news/2023-11-canadian-wildfires-impacted-air-quality.html
Some good news from the park just a bit south of me: “More than three years after a wildfire devastated Big Basin Redwoods State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains, the massive redwood trees in California’s oldest state park continue to recover with surprising speed.”
“The park’s famed old-growth redwoods, some of which ... date back more than 1,500 years, are nearly all green again."
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/20/big-basin-redwoods-continue-to-recover-well-three-years-after-huge-fire-while-some-species-are-struggling/ or
https://archive.li/vXIvM
Watch Duty | Echo Radio Project | Fixing emergency radio dead zones
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UKL-7E8weHg&si=jZC-veCwrJDW_JXu
Dear Friends,
#ClimateDiary #California #SantaCruzMountains
Three years after a big #WildFire that burnt 97% of Big Basin State Park, #OldGrowth #redwood trees are coming back!
Other discussion includes the fire's impacts on #mammals, #fish, #frogs, #birds as well as #MicroClimate changes from additional sunlight. Recommendations are offered.
Summary here: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/11/20/big-basin-redwoods-continue-to-recover-well-three-years-after-huge-fire-while-some-species-are-struggling/ and the SCMBC website with links to symposium videos here: https://www.scmbc.org/
Burnt stump on Wednesday's hike, in an area burned in the Las Conchas fire of 2011.
Most of the burned trees are all black, but a few of them have this strange whitened bark. I'm not sure why.
Imagine this: the entirety of the #UnitedKingdom has been burned to ash, from Tip to Tail.
From the Orkney's to the Channel, every pasture, every hedgerow, every bog and thicket, burnt down to the stump.
Every town, every rail line, every tea house, every pub, all of it covered with a grey layer of soot.
All of it, a Kingdom of Ash.
This is what happened in the Canadian Forests in 2023.
Twice.
And the Burning will continue next year...
2023 has been a bad year on so many fronts. But perhaps nowhere worse than in the Canadian forests...
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Canada’s extraordinary year of wildfire finally appears to be slowing down, leaving behind a weighty legacy of charred northerly forests, acrid smoke, and a huge pulse of carbon emissions that will have reverberations for the climate around the world.
Fire ravaged Canada in 2023 like no other year, by a stupendous margin. A record 45.7m acres (18.5m hectares) went up in flames, an area about twice the size of Portugal, shattering the previous annual record nearly three times over. From the spring onwards, more than 6,500 fires sprang up, across the whole country, unusually, tearing through Nova Scotia in the east to British Columbia in the west.
The fires were largely centered on Canada’s vast boreal forests, a trove of habitat for creatures such as moose, bears, and songbirds and a crucial carbon bank that blankets an area larger than India, representing about a quarter of the world’s remaining intact forest.
Fire has always been a feature of Canada’s forests but experts say this year was not only a staggering departure from previous norms but also a grave omen of the sort of conditions that will be wreaked by the climate crisis, which is helping spur larger, fiercer wildfires through elevated temperatures and altered rainfall patterns.
“It has been an exceptional, epic year,” said Stephen Pyne, a fire historian at Arizona State University. “This is clearly a case of climate change adding energy to the system, magnifying the boom and bust of the boreal forest. We may be witnessing a change of state, a change in the character of this environment.”
The impact of the fires was also felt far beyond Canada’s borders, causing plumes of smoke that turned New York City’s skies a dystopian orange in June, and as recently as last month caused hazy skies as far away as Florida.
The impact upon the world’s climate will be even more significant than this. According to data from the European Union’s satellite monitoring service, more than 1.7bn tons of planet-heating gases have been released this year by the enormous fires – about three times the total emissions that Canada, a major fossil fuel-producing nation, itself produces each year.
Such huge emissions, eclipsing in a single year any measure, however ambitious, to cut pollution from cars or factories by a country like Canada, are a major drag upon efforts to stem the climate crisis. The majestic boreal forests, much like the Amazon rainforest that now emits as much carbon as it sucks up and is tipping towards becoming a savannah, suddenly appear to be a danger to the world’s climate rather than a key safeguard.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/09/canada-wildfire-record-climate-crisis
#Canada #Wildfire #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #CO2 #Emissions
RT by @CopernicusEU: #EMSR704 #Wildfire in #Spain🇪🇸
Our #RapidMappingTeam has delivered its Delineation Product for monitoring the consequences of the #IFMontitxelvo wildfire🔥
As of 3 November at 10:31 UTC:
A burnt area of 1,472 ha has been detected in the VHR 🛰️ imagery
https://rapidmapping.emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR704/reporting
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CopernicusEMS/status/1720868900525502481#m
[2023-11-04 18:21 UTC]
It's my first #anniversary here on #Mastodon! 🥳 Thank you to the generally wonderful community on here. Came for my #science bubble, but because following each other is always encouraged, I discovered a lot more than just that! My feed is more #diverse than ever, and there's a lot less gloominess that became so widespread on other social media. I'll happily continue to share #wildfire and #ecology related stories, and maybe throw in some #videogame commentary here and there 🤓👋🔥
From Los Angeles Times: For second day, helicopters drop water on fast-moving Oahu wildfire
Air Support Project made its first edition of Clean Air Times magazine, you can get a free digital download at https://airsupportproject.com/free-downloads/ but it's also available for print at https://airsupportproject.com/shop/ . The first edition is on Wildfire Smoke, and has great info on cleaning the air, and a section on wildfire smoke and Covid, a comic, and a quiz at the end. It looks rockstar, both in print and digitally! #cleanair #wildfire #wildfiresmoke #covid #CleanAirIsAHumanRight
"...80% of all #wildlife species [in the #US] depend on the...habitat beaver create."
"#Beaver should be our national #climate action plan because connected #floodplains store water, store #carbon, improve water quality, improve the resilience to #wildfire...what beaver do play an enormous role in controlling the dynamics of those systems...we should...be trying to mimic what they do."
By #nature, beaver do Everything, Everywhere, All at Once.
New newsletter out today! Check it out >>
@light_bulbs The #Permaculture Institute of North America produced a video on this subject.
"A history of fire suppression and the impacts of climate change has led to a severely increased risk of catastrophic #wildfire. The Fire Ecology Restoration Project aims to shift the paradigm of fire management to include proactive strategies like ecological thinning and the creation of #biochar." https://youtu.be/S5GdzQ00HdY
How Megafires Are Remaking the World (NYT)
"This incendiary age, which some scientists have called the #Pyrocene could lead to “a wholesale conversion of what habitats are where on the planet,” Dr. Hodges said. “Right now, everybody is talking about fires and smoke and who dies, because of the immediacy of this fire year. But really, truly, the long-term consequences are much more severe and sustained.”
#Wildfire #Bushfire #Megafire #Extinction #Ecosystems
Gift article link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/science/climate-wildfires-ecosystems.html?unlocked_article_code=48TJQnE1e0_ELibPKbc1vb9CSKduqZSDQZZiBp9Uk8GAHZ_I5Rnmc10Pt6NVFG7jtTEq6f-VD9EL57ZJuSYz32q8kl_6UuTm2QYzbtnirKAjzzhZzyID5oRodYwaNJzQMQQcfSrU3nVlHWrlaIUKuIGWElzpLZvFgTMPC-PcEEG-kj0bGJcv8oWLW_TVgrRoHNTm0PfXCtBGNXWJA-WY08JeS5dX5daH3zx2Cn1mdepfinpubuSFxeTuwgDCpXzmHUaqNTwpgU827DMCcnE8pjOhwQXlQDmaEFTd9-Oq50HNWjGcw3kzQmYnEAr1OJrpwmVDZ_wcERoUF-CTHan6YE6Y179tyg&smid=url-share
Open access:
"How Megafires Are Remaking the World: In our Pyrocene age, enormous wildfires aren’t merely damaging ecosystems but transforming them."
Hotsat-1 - UK Spacecraft Maps Heat Variations Across Earth
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67010377 <--shared media article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #infrastructure #buildings #satellite #HotSat1 #heat #temperature #earthobservation #thermalsensor #hot #cold #wildfire #infrared #heatmaps #planning #urbanplanning #insulation #efficiency #heatislands #heatstress #climatechange #HVAC #climate #extremeweather #finance #industry #vegetation #urbantrees #greenbuildings #LEED
This graphic posted by Peter D Carter, Director Climate Emergency Institute, shows the state of S. America this year - extreme heat and widespread drought areas.
Carter calls the wildfires "Fossil fulled Hell".
https://twitter.com/PCarterClimate/status/1711941448072134762
#VillaCarlosPaz #wildfire #ClimateChange
3/n
S. America has more than its fair share of wildfires this spring - see fire map below from the NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS).
What will this map look like in peak summer time?
The fires near Villa Carlos Paz are in the hills to its west.
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:today;@-55.2,-18.9,4.5z
#VillaCarlosPaz #wildfire
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Massive wildfire threatens town of Villa Carlos Paz in Argentina.
Pillars of flames and smoke are encroaching from the surrounding hills.
960 firefighters, 8 firefighting planes and 2 helicopters are fighting the wildfires.
The wildfire was accidentally ignited in a campfire.
Fossil-fueled global warming, extreme heat and drought are all contributing to wildfires in S. America. It's not summer yet.
https://earthsky.org/human-world/argentina-wildfire-cordoba-villa-carlos-paz-october-2023/
Credit: Drone footage by Fede Krypner
#VillaCarlosPaz #wildfire
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"People drove out through the smoke as flames lapped at their homes and water bombers patrolled the two-lane highway to try to keep it open. It felt like there was no safe place to go."
https://macleans.ca/society/environment/yellowknife-wildfire-evacuation/
Is Pacific Gas and Electric (PGE) your utility company? Do you know their negligence in maintaining their above-ground lines is the cause of many huge wildfires that resulted in loss of life, homes, and forests?
Write the California Public Utilities Commission to get them to make PGE put their lines underground, as should have happened decades ago. https://scenic.salsalabs.org/PGETargetedAction10052023/
Evacuation Warning near Cambria, California for Green Fire. SLC-E111. #wildfire #evacuation #Cambria #GreenFire #SanLuisObispo #SLO https://protect.genasys.com/hazards/42d25fff-e9de-4d2f-9b14-f112d6d3bf8d?z=11.421863159138393&latlon=35.49932395540422%2C-120.97434358736245
Thousands of homes evacuated on #Tenerife as a #wildfire sparked by high temperatures and strong winds burns in a forested area that was hit by fires in August. https://www.canarianweekly.com/posts/The-new-fire-in-Tenerife-is-raised-to-a-Level-2-emergency
Misleading arguments: spreading like a #wildfire 🔥
For a German anti-fake-news blog, I've refuted three common but nonsensical arguments designed to deny an impact of #ClimateChange on #wildfires.
You can see the full article here (in German):
https://www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/waldbrand-fakes-erkennen-widerlegen/
In the following responses you'll find the basic points summarized!
@wildfirescience @paleofire @ecology @academicchatter @academicsunite @ClimateMigration #SciComm #FakeNews #fire #FireEcology #Ecology
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Good article:
Canada left battered by 'never before seen' wildfire season
"And in the boreal forest, due to the thickness of the humus on the ground, fires can continue to burn for months.
"When we explain to people that the fires will only really be extinguished with snow, everyone becomes eager for winter to arrive," Guy Lafreniere"
https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/breaking-news/canada-left-battered-by-never-before-seen-wildfire-season/news-story/d553a6c50bca93fee500077a07f7f12d
Canada Seasonal Fire Trend Charts:
https://gwis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/apps/gwis.statistics/seasonaltrend
#Canada #BorealForests #ClimateChange #Fire #WildFire #Arctic