Tag: wildfire

2022 marked a devastating year for wildfires in the EU, with close to 900,000 hectares of land scorched, equivalent to the size of Corsica, according to a recent report by the Commission's Joint Research Centre reveals that this year ranks as the second-worst in recorded history, with the most severe year being 2017, witnessing 1.3 million hectares of land burnt.

The unprecedented 2023 Canadian wildfires not only etched their mark on Canadian and U.S. territories but exerted a far-reaching influence across the Northern Hemisphere, impacting air quality as distant as Europe and China. A recent study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences on November 17th unveils the profound extent of these wildfires' effects on global air quality.

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from wildfires that have been gradually increasing since 2000, spiked drastically to a record high in 2021,...

Hazards such as earthquakes, floods, wildfires and heat waves can be prevented from becoming life-threatening disasters once the solutions are interconnected among...

How does wildfire affect the health? Are people exposed to Wildfire at a higher risk of cancer? A new study in lancet...

Do wild fires only destroy homes, plant life and animals? On the other hand, do they have more risk? A group of...

Climate change and land-use change are projected to make wildfires more frequent and intense, with a global increase of extreme fires of up to...

Iconic grassland grazers such as giant bison, woolly mammoth and ancient horses went extinct from 50,000 years to 6,000 years ago, and their extinction...

Pregnant women exposed to wildfire smoke are likely to give birth early, which has heightened the risk during pregnancy, according to a new study...