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Climate Change Increases Wildfire Risks in Yosemite and Other National Parks - University of California, Berkeley
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (259+ words) New UC Berkeley-led research indicates that continued climate change could severely increase wildfire above natural levels in Yosemite, Sequoia, Kings Canyon, and Lassen Volcanic National Parks. The study, which was published today in Environmental Research Letters, also provides data for…...
How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse?
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (511+ words) This article by Kevin T. Smiley, Louisiana State University; Deepti Singh, Washington State University; Jennifer Marlon, Yale University; and Jim Hurrell, Colorado State University, first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission....
Letters: The intense wildfires in Canada are a symptom of our global climate crisis
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1121+ words) As recent summers have made clear, wildland megafires are no longer a regional anomaly but have become a global hazard. NASA reports that, due to human-induced climate change, “Extreme wildfire activity has more than doubled worldwide.” Hotter temperatures evaporate soil…...
As climate change drives more extreme wildfires, are smoky summer days the new norm?
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (109+ words) KGOU As climate change drives more extreme wildfires, are smoky summer days the new norm? Scientists say human-caused climate change is driving longer fire seasons across drier landscapes, sparking more intense and widespread forest fires. In Canada, home to more…...
Severe California forest fires burn 30 times more acreage than in 1980s, says UCLA
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (670+ words) Scientists from UCLA found that while the total area affected by forest fires has increased tenfold since 1985, the land burned by the most damaging fires has surged by a factor of 30. Published in PNAS, the study examined wildfire patterns between…...