Sediment runoff from the state’s increasingly severe wildfires and heavy rain events may affect ecosystems and water resources downstream.
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Black Carbon from Wildfire Smoke Can Double Warming Effects
The findings could help climate models be more accurate about warming projections.
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Arctic Warming Is Driving Siberian Wildfires
Increased temperatures and drought are leading to more wildfires. And wildfire smoke aerosols can suppress precipitation, drying out soils and further increasing fire risk.
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Extreme Wildfires Are Getting More Extreme and Occurring More Often
The world’s most energetic wildfires have doubled in intensity and number over the past 2 decades, with climate change and land management likely to blame.
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New Model Can Better Predict Areas Vulnerable to Forest Fires in India
Researchers incorporated local atmospheric parameters and terrain data to more accurately estimate the probability of fire in a specific area.
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Wildfire Smoke Affects the Function of Lake Ecosystems
Smoke-covered lakes see shifts in biological and energy processes that influence food webs, carbon storage, and more.
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Is It Climate Change? Americans Mostly Say Yes
Most Americans think climate change plays some role in creating extreme weather, though their perceptions didn’t always align with scientists’.
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A Powerful New Model for U.S. Climate–Air Quality Interactions
NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory has developed a new variable-resolution global chemistry-climate model for research at the nexus of U.S. climate and air quality extremes.
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Does Soil Sound Different After It’s Burned?
Yes, but not quite the way researchers expected it to.
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When Fieldwork Comes Home
The impacts of the 2021 Marshall Fire rippled through a community of Colorado geoscientists, spurring them to action.