| Huge wildfires still are tearing across the region, bearing down on more homes and threatening more lives. |
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| Rain brought renewed fears of mudslides in areas ravaged by wildfires last year. |
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| The explanation was that the range was under more pressure than ever because of wildfires and drought. |
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| Melosh et al. proposed that wildfires were ignited by the thermal energy radiated by re-entering ejecta following the asteroid impact. |
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| It means 500 percent more floods, mudslides, hailstorms, drought, ice storms and wildfires. |
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| The work takes planters to the most damaged lands, where clearcutting or wildfires have left moonscapes of the ecosystem. |
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| If wildfires continue we will see the added disappearance of bilbies, mala, long-tailed dunnart and the Centralian rockrat from our rangelands. |
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| They say it would do nothing to reduce the risk of wildfires but would degrade America's forests. |
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| This fall, as we've witnessed the devastation of the California wildfires, we have been reminded yet again of the firefighters' brave deeds. |
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| Organisers surveyed the impact from last year's wildfires and stormy SoCal winter, and redesigned the course. |
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| And next, we're going to go live to California for the very latest on the wildfires that are threatening celebrity mansions. |
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| Some of those trees will reforest a site at Sikhote-Alin Reserve in the Far East that suffers from yearly wildfires. |
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| We have wildfires out there, and there are watchtowers that are empty because of his cuts. |
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| Now there's movement to reduce the risk of destructive wildfire by increasing conditions for wildfires of renewal. |
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| Complicating matters is the fact that Fairbanks is no stranger to wildfires. |
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| Officials said the season's first wildfires burned with an intensity usually not seen until late summer, portending an especially dangerous and costly summer. |
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| Disastrous miscalculations and conflict can enkindle violent wildfires. |
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| According to some expert prognostication on the Web, the king of natural resources may, once again, be consumed and wasted in spectacular wildfires. |
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| Brawny and stout-hearted, the men took deep pride in fighting the wildfires that raged across the West each summer. |
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| Only 45 per cent of the total area normally consumed was set ablaze by wildfires. |
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| In an average year there are approximately 12 million earthquakes, 10,000 floods, hundreds of tornados and dozens of wildfires and tsunamis. |
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| Climate related disasters such as flooding, flash floods, tropical cyclones, drought, wildfires and heat waves now affect more people worldwide. |
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| Heatwaves, droughts, floods, wildfires, and other types of extreme weather are becoming more intense due to human-caused global warming. |
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| Here in Australia it means longer droughts, more wildfires, it means the incredible natural glory of the Great Barrier Reef is threatened. |
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| However, these resources are being destroyed by a combination of droughts, wildfires and floods. |
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| Two other serious threats of climate change are the increased risks of wildfires and species invasions for example, forest insects. |
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| That makes it more vulnerable to things like pests, to wildfires, as well as a general lowering of its production rate, its productivity rate. |
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| The intense thunderstorm will quench the fires before they become wildfires and will dislodge the weaker numbers and prepare them for the next fire. |
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| Lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina convinced some Angelinos, who in past wildfires have stayed to the last minute to try to save their homes, to flee. |
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| Thanks to another weather extreme in a year of record droughts and wildfires, nobody would be landing at the heliport on this day. |
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| The number of trees dying is expected to increase as the bark beetle infestation spreads, increasing the possibility of more devastating wildfires. |
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| She pictured wildfires, tornadoes, earthquakes and tidal waves. |
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| The mudslides were set off on Christmas Day after a downpour fell on hillsides that had been stripped of vegetation by wildfires in October and November. |
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| Burning charcoal generates hydrocarbons, particulate air pollution, wildfires, and carbon footprints. |
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| Now that the state is finally seeing some significant rainfall in December, those wildfires created conditions conducive to flooding and mudslides. |
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| A Russian state television reporter dropped a lit cigarette butt at the scene of raging wildfires in Siberia, sparking a fire in grass a few metres from a village, his channel has confirmed. |
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| Firefighting flights mean flights performed exclusively to provide aerial firefighting services, which means the use of aircraft and other aerial resources to combat wildfires. |
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| Grasses are well adapted to fire, being able to resprout quickly from their roots and thus outcompete tree seedlings. The goal, then, is to encourage landowners to do more to prevent wildfires from starting and spreading. |
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| Besides providing emergency medical services and aerial ambulance service, the helicopter can fight wildfires and hoist victims from the ground. |
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| Forest managers, for example, try to prevent the spread of wildfires throughout a forest by building firebreaks that follow changes in the landscape, such as those that separate one patch of trees from another. |
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| Wildfires are most often ignited through natural means, although human activity, such as slash and burn agriculture and even arson, is also a cause of wildfires. |
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| But letting wildfires run their course especially at the frequency they occur nowadays can render the chaparral vulnerable to invasive, non-native species. |
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| The severity of ferocious bushfires in Australia a few weeks ago shocked probably everyone but especially people in countries that deal with wildfires. |
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| The wildfires in Australia were largely caused by the large supply of natural fuel that had not been burned off in previous fires due to the fact that fires had been forestalled. |
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| Uncontrolled wildfires can reach urban areas. |
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| Even so, as the unkempt forests have thickened, wildfires that do occur have grown alarmingly in intensity, burning hotter, faster and more destructively. |
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| Habitat degradation means a reduction in the amount or quality of caribou habitat, as happens following such events as wildfires or timber harvesting, or through human disturbance. |
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| One of the main causes of this decline is the occurrence of wildfires at a time when viable seeds are in short supply, such as in young stands consisting of immature trees. |
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| In domestic crises, whether it may have been wildfires in British Columbia, flooding in Manitoba or ice storms in Quebec, these reservists have answered the call. |
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| One strategy BLM adopted to combat these wildfires was to eliminate cheatgrass, a highly combustible, non-native plant. |
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| In August 2016, wildfires spread on Madeira and reached Funchal, killing three and destroying 150 homes. |
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| Drought conditions, coupled with hot and windy weather in summer, have caused numerous wildfires in recent years. |
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| It is highly adapted to fire, producing large amounts of flammable detritus and increasing the frequency and intensity of wildfires. |
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| The blue gum, as well as other species including the Harding grass, are much more flammable and better adapted to wildfires than native species. |
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| Rotational burning in a prescribed manner may help to reduce the risk of damaging wildfires and reduce carbon loss by between 22 and 34 per cent. |
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| Because hare populations increase in forests that are growing back after disruption by wildfires or logging operations, these regenerating forest ecosystems are often able to support denser populations of lynxes as well. |
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| The rock paintings, more of which are being discovered yearly, are under threat from constant wildfires, from feral animals that rub against the cave walls and from wasps whose nests dislodge the ephemeral ochre paints. |
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| Uncontrolled wildfires are of particular concern in the wildland-urban interface, which refers to areas where communities or human developments meet the forest or grassland. |
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| Disturbances may be generated by abiotic, or nonliving, forces such as weather and wildfires, or they may occur as a result of biotic, or living, forces such as disease and invasions of exotic species. |
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| The reporter was covering President Vladimir Putin's visit to southern Siberia, where wildfires raging through the steppe have killed at least 34 people. |
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| Several recent fires in southeast Georgia and northern Florida grew together to create one of the largest wildfires in the contiguous 48 states, burning over 600,000 acres. |
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| During wildfires, vegetation-free power line right of ways can provide safety islands for firefighters, or act as anchor points while combating a fire. |
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| As part of the Ring of Fire, California is subject to tsunamis, floods, droughts, Santa Ana winds, wildfires, landslides on steep terrain, and has several volcanoes. |
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| Other migration hazards include pollution, storms, wildfires, and habitat destruction along migration routes, denying migrants food at stopover points. |
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| The palisade fence is mechanically stronger than a typical steel cable electric fence to withstand impact from wildlife, small falling trees and wildfires. |
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| Cheat grass is highly flammable after it dies and it can be very susceptible to wildfires, which often burn out of control and destroy wildlife habitat. |
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| Though the sky is fogged with the wildfires south of this location, dulling the sun's piercing ultraviolet punishment, still, my mind is wandersome. |
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| Buffalo, prairie dogs, and wildfires helped maintain this mosaic. |
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