Why firefighters in LA can’t use salt water from the ocean to battle wildfires
Seawater may be plentiful, but its salty drawbacks make it a last resort for battling flames.
Tag: wildfire
Meet Dragon Firefighter: A robot that uses water to fly
The robot spews water from its body, resembling how dragons are depicted spouting fire from their mouths in movies and ...
Sabertooth cats, dire wolves, and other megafauna went extinct 13,000 years ago in California. Wildfire and humans may be to blame
Humans and fire were driving prehistoric animals out. Kind of like what's also happening now.
We’re starting to see the worst wildfire years in recorded history
In the global warming future, wildfires are becoming a part of life.
Satellite images show the massive extent of August’s wildfires
Fires are ravaging many parts of the world.
Wildfires could ‘seed’ new clouds with the particles they release
Hey at least there's a silver lining.
Researchers develop new tool to help regrow burned-down forests
We all need some help every now and then.
Wildfire smoke can carry microbes that cause infectious diseases, researchers find
There's no such thing as 'clean' smoke, microbes can survive in it.
Climate change is driving California’s record wildfires
Higher mean temperatures and drier weather brought by global warming is playing a key role here.
Wildfires can change the songs birds sing
Events such as wildfire spread birds -- and their songs -- around.
California, and the world at large, will contend with longer, hotter, drier wildfire seasons
The study focuses on California, but the roots of the problem are global, the team explains.
The key to avoiding massive wildfires? Small, strategic controlled fires
Fires in Australia have shown that we need to get proactive and work to prevent fires.
Immune system could be altered for years after a wildfire
Tiny particles penetrate into the lungs and the bloodstream
A unique tree could help soils remain fertile in the Amazon
The inga tree can grow in very poor soil and improve it
New gel-like material can stop wildfires for months at a time
Wildfire-B-Gone!
Wildfires lock away a ‘considerable amount of carbon’ for centuries, or even millennia
I'll admit it -- I did not expect this.
Unprecedented, catastrophic wildfires blaze through California
Strong evidence indicates that humans are at least partly to blame.
Up to 80 percent of all wildfires in the U.S. are started by humans
Wildfires are generally good for forests but the current trend is anything but natural.
This fire in Australia has been burning for 6000 years
Some fires are big enough to see from outer space, others burn for a very long time, but from what ...
