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Badly burned cars and trees following the 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California
Posted inScience Updates

Wildfires Are Threatening Municipal Water Supplies

by A. T.-S. Chow, T. Karanfil and R. A. Dahlgren 12 August 20215 October 2021

Climate change is driving an increase in catastrophic wildfires; consumers see, smell, and taste the effects in their water. Water utilities must prepare for worse times ahead.

A map of the western United States showing smoke transported after fires in August 2013
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Improved Algorithms Help Scientists Monitor Wildfires from Space

by Elizabeth Thompson 2 July 202126 April 2022

Wildfires release pollutants that harm human health. Quality satellite monitoring can help track these pollutants and predict where they may become health hazards.

Satellite image of the Rio Negro floodplain forest, with a prominent white burn scar
Posted inNews

Amazon Forests Are Turning into Savannas

by Rishika Pardikar 14 May 202131 March 2022

Floodplain forests have low resilience to repeated exposure to wildfires. As climate change increases the instances of fires, forests may transform to less productive grassland ecosystems.

Grandes plumas de humo detrás de casas rurales en Brian Head, Utah, 2017
Posted inNews

Los Incendios forestales podrían exacerbar el asma en el oeste de los Estados Unidos

by A. Gold 4 May 20212 February 2022

Un nuevo estudio predice que para la década de 2050, el humo de los incendios forestales hará que la región gaste $850 millones más cada año para tratar el asma.

Smoke rises from the ground and the charred stumps of trees, collecting in a yellow-brown haze in the sky, after a fire burned through the Amazon rain forest
Posted inNews

The Rain Forest Can Recover After Fire, but It’s Not the Same

by Kate Wheeling 28 April 202129 April 2022

New research finds that temperatures rise in the Amazon rain forest after a fire, even in areas that are not converted to agricultural land or pastures.

A line of controlled fire burns across a dry grassland in South Africa.
Posted inNews

Zooming In on Small Fires in Africa

by L. Supriya 2 April 202122 October 2021

By analyzing high-resolution satellite images, researchers found that fires burning in Africa were undercounted by as much as 80%.

Yurok and Karuk igniters conduct traditional burning in an orchard near the Klamath River in California.
Posted inFeatures

Fire as Medicine: Learning from Native American Fire Stewardship

by Jane Palmer 29 March 202128 September 2021

For centuries, Indigenous peoples have worked to live in harmony with fire. Can integrating such cultural practices into contemporary wildfire management help prevent catastrophic wildfires?

Researchers discovered a correlation between a mass bird die-off and wildfires.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Mass Bird Die-Off Linked to Wildfires and Toxic Gases

by Joshua Learn 26 March 202118 October 2021

Using observations from crowdsourced science and weather location data, researchers concluded that wildfires caused a mass die-off of birds in the western and central United States in 2020.

Flames and billowing smoke rise from trees at night.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Widespread Wildfire as a Proxy for Resource Strain

by Kate Wheeling 4 March 20214 October 2021

Researchers have found a strong correlation between the number of days with widespread, synchronous fire danger and resource allocation across the western United States.

The Apple Fire burns north of Beaumont, Calif., on the evening of 31 July 2020.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Uncovering Patterns in California’s Blazing Wildfires

by Aaron Sidder 1 March 20216 October 2021

A study of trends in wildfire occurrence over the past 30 years shows that environmental, climatic, and human-related factors can point out regions with high fire probabilities.

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