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Heaney, Hunter, Clulow, Bowles, Vardoulakis
Public health officials communicate the relevant risks of bushfire smoke exposure and associated health protection measures to affected populations. Increasing global bushfire incidence in the context of climate change motivated this scoping review…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
McCarty
Fire activity and severity is increasing in the high northern latitudes, including burning landscapes long thought to be "fire resistant." Across the Pan-Arctic, smoke impacts from lengthening fire seasons in the boreal and the Arctic mean new…
Type: Media
Year: 2021
Huntsinger, Barry
The California landscape is layered and multifunctional, both historically and spatially. Currently, wildfire size, frequency, and intensity are without precedent, at great cost to human health, property, and lives. We review the contemporary…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
McCarty, Aalto, Paunu, Arnold, Eckhardt, Klimont, Fain, Evangeliou, Venäläinen, Tchebakova, Parfenova, Kupiainen, Soja, Huang
In recent years, the pan-Arctic region has experienced increasingly extreme fire seasons. Fires in the northern high latitudes are driven by current and future climate change, lightning, fuel conditions, and human activity. In this context,…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Eriksen
On 26 April 1986, the explosion and subsequent open-air graphite fire at Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant contaminated the soil, water and atmosphere alike with radioactive material. The 30-km2 Chernobyl Exclusion Zone remains one…
Type: Media
Year: 2021
Edwards, Archer, De Bruyn, Evans, Lewis, Vigilante, Whyte, Russell-Smith
Savannas are the most fire-prone of Earth's biomes and currently account for most global burned area and associated carbon emissions. In Australia, over recent decades substantial development of savanna burning emissions accounting methods has been…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Moore, Bomar, Kobziar, Christner
The environmental sources of microbial aerosols and processes by which they are emitted into the atmosphere are not well characterized. In this study we analyzed microbial cells and biological ice nucleating particles (INPs) in smoke emitted from…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Moura, Scariot, Schmidt, Beatty, Russell-Smith
Land occupation and management systems have defined fire regimes and landscapes for millennia. The savanna biome is responsible for 86% of all fire events, contributes to 10% of the total carbon emissions annually and is home to 10% of the human…
Type: Document
Year: 2019