Extreme wildfires are becoming more common and increasingly affecting Earth’s climate. Wildfires in boreal forests have attracted much less attention than those in tropical forests, although boreal forests are one of the most extensive biomes on Earth...
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Person: Zheng, Ciais, Chevallier, Yang, Canadell, Chen, van der Velde, Aben, Chuvieco, Davis, Deeter, Hong, Kong, Li, Li, Lin, He, Zhang
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Background
Wildfire imposes a high mortality burden on Brazil. However, there is a limited assessment of the health economic losses attributable to wildfire-related fine particulate matter (PM2.5).
Methods
We collected daily time-...
Person: Wu, Li, Xu, Chen, Yue, Yu, Ye, Wen, Coêlho, Saldiva, Guo
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smoke pollution from landscape fires is a major health problem, but it is difficult to predict the impact of any particular fire. For example, smoke plumes can be mapped using remote sensing, but we do not know how the smoke is distributed in the air-...
Person: Price, Rahmani, Samson
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire has always been an important component of many ecosystems, but anthropogenic global climate change is now altering fire regimes over much of Earth's land surface, spurring a more urgent need to understand the physical, biological, and chemical...
Person: East, AghaKouchak, Caprarelli, Filippelli, Florindo, Luce, Rajaram, Russell, Santín, Santos
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This StoryMap presents information about the use of prescribed fire on the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, specifically: 1) what is prescribed fire, 2) types of prescribed fire, 3) pile burning, 4) understory burning, 5) broadcast burning, 6)...
Person: Milligan
Created Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Smoke from wildfires is a well-recognized public health and safety issue. While there have been extensive efforts to help communities be “smoke ready”, most people would still prefer not to live with weeks of unhealthy air quality during the summer and...
Person: Graw
Created Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Forest fire research over the last several decades has improved the understanding of their emissions and impacts. Nevertheless, the evolution of forest fire plumes remains poorly quantified and understood. Here, a Lagrangian chemical transport model,...
Person: Liu, Huang, Liggio, Hayden, Mihele, Wentzell, Wheeler, Leithead, Moussa, Xie, Yang, Zhang, Han, Li
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smoke plumes emitted from wildland-urban interface (WUI) wildfires contain toxic chemical substances that are harmful to human health, mainly due to the burning of synthetic components. Accurate measurement of these air toxics is necessary for...
Person: Ragbir, Kaduwela, Passovoy, Amin, Ye, Wallis, Alaimo, Young, Kong
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Soil seed banks play an important role in plant species persistence in fire-prone systems. Response to fire related germination cues often reflect historical fire regimes and can be important in maintaining ecotones between different forest types. We...
Person: Younis, Kasel
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
[from the text] California is facing an unprecedented and growing forest and wildfire crisis. Decades of fire exclusion, coupled with the increasing impacts of climate change, have dramatically increased wildfires’ size and intensity throughout the...
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Created Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES