WASHINGTON, June 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it will soon begin the final weeks of a program studying the effect forest fires have on Arctic climate.
... up, NASA aircraft are set to follow the trail of smoke plumes from some of Earth's northernmost forest fires, examining their contribution to arctic pollution and implications for climate change.
Scientists with NASA say their airborne pollution study on the impact of boreal forest fires in the Canadian Arctic went better than expected, and they hope to produce preliminary results in the fall. ...
... -based connection to the internet enables fire-monitoring efforts in remote and mountainous regions. A forest fire remote monitoring system has been successfully tested in Portugal that could prevent ...
... to find out whether energy from trees can power a network of sensors to prevent spreading forest fires. What they learn also could raise the possibility of using trees as silent sentinels along the ...
... where it is expected that the drinking water supply will be threatened following the recent forest fires. The first measurements in Portugal have shown that the flames reached searing temperatures of ...
... set in Portugal has provided researchers in the Netherlands with the first information about the soil erosion that occurs after forest fires. A research team set fire to 10 ha of heathland under ...
Hundreds of thousands of flamingos and other wildlife are at risk after five forest fires erupted in Kenya, officials say.
... affect human health and ecosystems in smoke from forest fires. The results from the new study also suggest ... in smoke or detected them in air during fire season, but no one had directly measured them ...
... grant winner Guido van der Werf, has analyzed the density of smog during forest ... severe drought provides the conditions conducive for forest fires, it is often humans who are actually responsible. ...
California study suggests fire-free forests store less carbon.
... a global data base and map of the occurrence of fire scars covering the period 2000-2007. ... area becomes a carbon source for a number of years.
“The forest fires last summer in Greece and in Portugal a ...
... hitting Europe, Norway experienced its biggest forest fire in the last half century earlier ... based observations to respond to the operational needs of fire fighting teams through projects such as RISK ...
LIMA (Reuters) - A forest fire has damaged two archeological sites in the valley between the Peruvian city of Cuzco and the ancient Incan fortress of Machu Picchu, Peru's national institute of culture ...
... November 6, 2008. Although the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) significantly reduced cutting ... outweighed harvest reductions in the loss of older forests. "Fire is a more important factor of loss to old- ...
