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Gaining the "aha" moment in wildfire risk under...
At the recent Northeast Fire Compact Annual Meeting in Maine, Katie Lighthall, coordinator for the Western Region of the National Cohesive Wildland
Tips For Reducing Wildfire Risk
UW website offers suggestions to help reduce wildfire risks.
Even trail crews take extra steps during times of high wildfire risk
All industrial forest work activities are guided by the Industrial Fire Precaution Levels (IFPL), which have varying degrees of restrictions intended to reduce the risk of starting a wildfire. Even…
People Left Cities For Rural Zoom Towns. How Does That Impact Wildfire Risk?
Living in a cabin in the woods seems idyllic until a spark of lightning ignites the forest and endangers your home...
What are the top causes of wildfires?
This is what driving through a raging wildfire looks like
'Just keep driving. Not too too fast, we'll be okay.'
How To Help With The Amazon Rainforest Wildfires
Images and videos of the record-breaking fires raging across the Amazon rainforest have been spreading across the internet, but what can we do to help?
Wildfires Are Getting More Destructive. There Are No Easy Ways to Prevent Them
Minds Scarred by Wildfire: How Disasters Linger
Natural disasters like the Camp Fire can reopen old trauma wounds, or create new ones, experts say, stirring up symptoms like insomnia, worry and hopelessness.
Meet the scientists trying to understand the world’s worst wildfires
It won’t be easy to update the 47-year-old standard for predicting what fires will do—but it will save lives.
Wildfire smoke can be hazardous to animals: how to keep them safe
A veterinarian offers tips to keep cats, dogs, birds -- and even livestock -- safe on days with bad air quality.
Why Wildfire Smoke Is More Dangerous Than You Realized
An air-quality specialist discusses how the smoke from recent wildfires choked her community and offers plans for surviving a fiery future.
Tips to combat ‘unhealthy’ air from wildfire smoke
What Happens When Climate Change Denialism and Wildfires Collide
Climate deniers are amplifying mis- and disinformation that’s spilling over dangerously into a world literally on fire.
Explained in 90 Seconds: How Climate Change Fuels Wildfires
Higher temperatures, prolonged drought, and fire suppression policy combine to make fires worse.
How Supercomputers Can Help Fix Our Wildfire Problem
Fires spread with a complexity that scientists can pick apart little by little, thanks to lasers, sensors, and some of the most powerful computers.
Ever wonder how wildfires get their names? The process is easier than you think
With the excessive number of wildfires and the short window of time to name them, the approach has still produced criticism, reported NYT.
How to literally fight a devastating forest fire with fire
We visited a controlled burn to see an expert solution to preventing deadly wildfires
The Scientists Who Play With Wildfire
When fire scientist Albert Simeoni wants to study wildfires, he can’t exactly run into the nearest blaze with sensors and data collection tools. It’s simply too dangerous and these conflagrations, though they’re becoming more frequent and intense with climate change, aren’t predictable enough to research in the controlled manner that science demands.
Tips for dealing with wildfire smoke
When smoke levels are high, even healthy people may affected. Listen to your body and contact your health care provider if you are experiencing smoke-related health symptoms, including eye, nose, and throat irritation; coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, or headaches. Children, older adults, pregnant or nursing women, and people with asthma or heart conditions are at greater risk and should take added precautions.
As wildfires break records what can agents do?
How the marketplace is changing as the risks of wildfires are exposed
