FIRESTORM

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France, Italy help battle Sweden's massive forest fire
Aug 06, 2014 (AFP)
French and Italian air tanker fire planes flew in to fight a huge forest fire raging in central Sweden on Wednesday, the worst seen in Scandinavia in 40 years, ...
The Interaction of Climate Change, Fire, and Forests in the U.S.
Aug 06, 2014 (SPX)
A special section of the September issue of Forest Ecology and Management, available online now, assesses the interactions among fire, climate change, and fores...
Scientists uncover combustion mechanism to better predict warming by wildfires
Aug 06, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists have uncovered key attributes of so-called "brown carbon" from wildfires, airborne atmospheric particles that may have influenced current climate mod...
Sweden battles raging forest fire
Aug 05, 2014 (AFP)
Swedish firefighters were battling Tuesday a massive forest fire described as the worst in living memory which has engulfed homes, left one man dead and sent hu...
Study finds benefits to burning Flint Hills prairie in fall and winter
Aug 05, 2014 (SPX)
Kansas State University researchers have completed a 20-year study that looks at the consequences of burning Flint Hills prairie at different times of the year....
Wildfires and other burns play bigger role in climate change
Aug 05, 2014 (SPX)
It has long been known that biomass burning - burning forests to create agricultural lands, burning savannah as a ritual , slash-and-burn agriculture and wildfi...
Conservation scientists asking wrong questions on climate change impacts on wildlife
Aug 01, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists studying the potential effects of climate change on the world's animal and plant species are focusing on the wrong factors, according to a new paper ...
Firefighters battle wild blazes in Spain
Jul 19, 2014 (AFP)
Spanish firefighters on Saturday battled forest blazes that have destroyed hundreds of hectares of parched land and forced scores of people from their homes, au...
New type of soot particle discovered from wildfire emissions
Jul 08, 2014 (SPX)
Every year, wildfires clear millions of hectares of land and emit around 34-percent of global soot mass into the atmosphere. In certain regions, such as Southea...
Indonesia fires spark Singapore, Malaysia haze warning
Jun 25, 2014 (AFP)
Indonesia's disaster agency warned Wednesday that neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia could be hit by more choking smog, after a huge jump in forest fires in a ...
State of wildland fire emissions, carbon, and climate research
Jun 10, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists know that wildland fire emissions play a significant role in the global carbon cycle and that its principal component - carbon dioxide - is a primary...
Australian researchers eye fighting fires with explosives
May 22, 2014 (AFP)
Australian researchers are working on fighting out-of-control bushfires with explosives, likening the process of using the soundwave produced by a blast to blow...
Wildfires burn homes as California roasts
May 15, 2014 (AFP)
Thousands of people fled raging wildfires in roasting southern California on Wednesday as flames destroyed homes and triggered evacuations at a nuclear power pl...
Fires in the Primorsky Province of Russia
Apr 25, 2014 (SPX)
One of the most influential ecological disturbances is fire. Fire can spread so rapidly and for such far distances that its impact on land is for the most part ...
Chileans survey damage from massive blaze
Apr 15, 2014 (AFP)
Chileans on Monday surveyed the smoking remains of homes charred in a fire in the historic port of Valparaiso, the city's worst-ever blaze that killed 15 people...
Deadly Chile fire rages for third day
Apr 15, 2014 (AFP)
Firefighters backed by police and soldiers spent a third day Monday battling a massive blaze that has killed 15 people and ravaged a huge swath of Chile's histo...
Thousands evacuated, 12 dead in Chile blaze
Apr 14, 2014 (AFP)
More than 8,000 people were evacuated Sunday as an army of firefighters battled a killer blaze that tore through parts of Chile's historic port of Valparaiso an...
Thousands evacuated, 11 dead in Chile blaze
Apr 13, 2014 (AFP)
More than 10,000 people were evacuated Sunday as an army of firefighters battled a killer blaze that tore through parts of Chile's historic port of Valparaiso a...
Forest fire hits 'sacred' Philippine mountain
Mar 20, 2014 (AFP)
A forest fire was raging Wednesday atop a Philippine mountain, threatening endangered plants and animals in an area also considered by some local sects as a hol...
Indonesian team hunts firebugs in haze-hit province
Mar 17, 2014 (AFP)
An Indonesian province hit by a haze outbreak has formed a team of more than 500 to hunt down people who started forest fires after the president demanded actio...
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