At least one first responder and six other people were injured in the fires after fires erupted Thursday outside DenverTens of thousands of residents were forced to flee in northern Colorado after fast-moving wildfires destroyed an estimated 600 homes….
US wildfires have killed nearly 20% of world’s giant sequoias in two years
Blazes in western US have hit thousands of Earth’s largest trees, once considered almost fire-proofLightning-sparked wildfires killed thousands of giant sequoias this year, adding to a staggering two-year death toll that accounts for up to nearly a fif…
The blame game: How much are we responsible for recent wildfires?
Humans are at least 68 percent responsible for the wildfires in the Western US.
Why the American west’s ‘wildfire season’ is a thing of the past – visualized
It used to be a four-month period. Now fires are starting earlier and burning more intensely amid extreme conditionsIt’s only October, and 2021 has already been a horrendous year for wildfires in the American west. The Dixie fire leveled the town of Gr…
The Montana couple taking on wildfires – in pictures
Samsara Duffey spends months scouring the horizon for blazes as a fire lookout while her husband, Mark, who is based about 280 miles away, parachutes out of planes to fight fires as a member of an elite squad of smokejumpers. In the western United Stat…
Using tech to transform vegetation management in the wake of the Dixie Fire
Elijah Priwer Contributor Elijah Priwer is a mechanical engineering student at UC Berkeley, whose interests lie in aerospace engineering, artificial intelligence and astrophysics. Rita Rosiek Contributor Share on Twitter Rita Rosiek is a New York-based copywriter and marketer whose work spans startups and emerging technologies. Wildfires have become an increasingly regular occurrence across the world, […]
Google beefs up wildfire tracking, tree cover, and Plus Codes in Maps
Google has updates for a handful of tools aimed at helping people use Maps for more, or get on them in the first place. The company is improving wildfire tracking, expanding a tool for calculating tree canopy cover in cities, and further automating virtual address creation with Plus Codes. The wildfires will be of the […]
Russia forest fire damage worst since records began, says Greenpeace
Analysis shows over 18.16m hectares were destroyed in 2021, an absolute record since satellite monitoring beganRussia has endured its worst forest fire season in the country’s modern history, according to recent data from the Russian Forestry Agency an…
The Dixie fire is almost out, but its inhospitable ‘moonscapes’ remain
Severe wildfires are making the recovery process for plants and animals more challenging, sometimes for years after the flamesAfter more than two months, the battle to contain the Dixie fire – a behemoth blaze that swept nearly 1m acres, leveling mount…
US research points to lower milk yield from cows exposed to wildfire smoke
A team at the University of Oregon has begun a three-year study looking at the effects of air quality and other stress factors on dairy cattleJuliana Ranches drove to work in eastern Oregon in early September through wildfire smoke so thick that, for a…