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First Detailed Look At The Progress Of A Wildland-Urban Fire Washington DC (SPX) Jun 22, 2009 
A wildfire rages across southern California wildlands towards residential communities, endangering residents and firefighters and sending property up in smoke. This is an increasingly common story, occurring several times a summer. To better understand these Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires and how best to prevent or fight them, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and ... read moreFire Mitigation Work In Western US Misplaced 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 12, 2009Only 11 percent of wildfire mitigation efforts undertaken as a result of a long-term federal fuels-reduction program to cut down catastrophic wildfire risk to communities have been undertaken near people's homes or offices in the past five years, says a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. The analysis of the U.S. National Fire Plan shows that as more Americans live in ... more
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Human Role In Indonesian Polluting Forest Fires
Den Haag, Netherlands (SPX) May 21, 2009The large forest fires that sweep through Indonesia in dry periods are not only the result of severe drought. A team of researchers, including Veni grant winner Guido van der Werf, has analysed the density of smog during forest fires. They have now established that the intensity of the forest fires is directly linked to population density and land use. Nature Geoscience published the resul ... more Greek forests turn to Google for post-fires protection 
Athens (AFP) May 19, 2009The head of a Greek forest destroyed by a wave of wildfires in 2007 that killed 77 people said Tuesday that rangers are using old Internet satellite photography to protect land from illegal housebuilding. "We are using Google Earth's photographs from before the fires as a reference point to prevent all illegal exploitation or theft" of some 25,000 hectares of woodlands in the country's south ... more Australian fire chief defends fatal blaze warnings 
Melbourne (AFP) May 11, 2009A top Australian firefighter on Monday defended the warnings given to residents when wildfires killed 173 people earlier this year, as public hearings into the disaster opened in Melbourne. Entire towns and more than 2,000 homes were razed in early February as record high temperatures, strong winds and drought-parched countryside combined to create the worst fire disaster in Australia's hist ... more Climate Adds Fuel To Asian Wildfire Emissions 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 07, 2009In the last decade, Asian farmers have cleared tens of thousands of square miles of forests to accommodate the world's growing demand for palm oil, an increasingly popular food ingredient. Ancient peatlands have been drained and lush tropical forests have been cut down. As a result, the landscape of equatorial Asia now lies vulnerable to fires, which are growing more frequent and having ... more |
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US lawmakers seek revamp of wildfire fighting
Washington (AFP) March 26, 2009US lawmakers on Thursday overwhelmingly approved legislation designed to ease the financial burden of fighting catastrophic wildfires like the blazes that ravaged California in 2008. The House of Representatives passed the measure, which would create a special contingency fund for battling major blazes, by a margin of 412-3. It must next clear the Senate before President Barack Obama can sig ... more SAfrica fires fuel air pollution in Cape Town
Cape Town (AFP) March 17, 2009Summer wildfires, which raged for days around Cape Town and laid waste to historic vineyards and other property, has raised levels of hazardous air pollution in the city, an official said Tuesday. A thick pall of smoke often hung over the city during December, January and February as fires swept outlying areas for a total of 16 days during this period. "The City of Cape Town's monitoring ... more Worst of Australian wildfire season declared over 
Sydney (AFP) March 4, 2009Australian authorities Wednesday declared the worst of the deadly wildfire season over, telling thousands of people who fled their homes it was safe to return. Fire-fighting authorities began scaling back their operations after cooling rains fell almost a month after a savage firestorm swept through Australia's southeast, killing 210 people. "We see a very bright light at the end of the ... more Australian firefighters win reprieve from extreme conditions
Melbourne (AFP) March 3, 2009Firefighters battling Australia's worst wildfire outbreak had a reprieve Tuesday when predicted extreme conditions gave way to light rain and mild temperatures. While howling winds of up to 125 kilometres (78 miles) an hour swept across scorched areas of Victoria state, fears that firestorms that killed more than 200 people on February 7 would return proved unfounded. The gale force wind ... more |
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