Enlarge / Firefighters from Stockton, California, put out flames off of Hidden Valley Rd. while fighting a wildfire, Friday, May 3, 2013 in Hidden Valley. (credit: Daria Devyatkina / Flickr) In the western United States, summer 2018 was a bad time for wildfires. In all, according to the government of California, 7,948 separate fires saw […]
Enlarge (credit: Kevin Key / Getty Images ) This summer, the Western United States saw a truly devastating wildfire season. Across the country , more than 48, 000 wildfires raged, damaging more than six million hectares of land. It would be nice to think that humans weren’t the primary cause of these events and that […]
Enlarge (credit: Kyle Monoon | Mercury News | Getty) California is famous for its beach weather, but it’s also growing increasingly infamous for its “fire weather, ” which is when high temperatures, strong winds, and low humidity combine to prime the landscape to burn. It’s no accident that you’ve been hearing so much about wildfires […]
Enlarge / Power lines are cast in silhouette as the Creek Fire creeps up on on the Shaver Springs community off of Tollhouse Road on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020 in Auberry, CA. (credit: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times ) It took a string of deadly fires, criminal convictions, a messy bankruptcy, and a multibillion-dollar […]
Enlarge / White smoke rising from the tundra in front of the Baird Mountains. (credit: Western Arctic National Parklands (CC BY 2.0)) Each winter, as snow blankets Alaska and northern Canada, the wildfires of the summer extinguish, and calm prevails—at least on the surface. Beneath all that white serenity, some of those fires actually continue […]
Enlarge (credit: Daniel Orth / Flickr) The snow hasn’t completely melted in the Sierra Nevada, but most of California is already deep into a drought. Over 96 percent of the Golden State is experiencing moderate to exceptional drought, compared with 36 percent last year, which was the worst year for wildfires since record keeping began. […]
Enlarge (credit: Bryant Baker, Los Padres ForestWatch) If you’re kind of judgmental when it comes to plants, you might describe the chamise plant as “meh.” Technically it’s a shrub, which in the hierarchy of plant types barely outranks a weed. Chamise grows up to a dozen feet tall and sprouts needle-like leaves less than a […]
Update: Called american wildfires and poisonous air quality, both the MLB and NFL lasted to perform Monday night, however on Tuesday, sanity has been restore. Read…