- Wildfire Is Transforming Alaska and Amplifying Climate Change🔍
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- Wildfires in Alaska🔍
- Beneath Alaskan Wildfires🔍
- Global forest fire carbon emissions have jumped 60% in 20 years🔍
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Alaska firefighters experiment with targeting blazes to save carbon
Wildfire Is Transforming Alaska and Amplifying Climate Change
For decades fire managers in Alaska have monitored ignitions in remote areas and generally allowed them to burn, renewing the fire-dependent ...
Escalating carbon emissions from North American boreal forest ...
With observations from Alaska, we show that current fire management practices limit the burned area. Further, the costs of avoiding carbon ...
Wildfires in Alaska: Shifting landscapes and fire management ...
Implementing fire suppression as a climate solution is a novel concept for our modern fire management. Before, fire in this region would ...
Beneath Alaskan Wildfires, A Hidden Threat: Long-Frozen Carbon's ...
The Fish Creek Fire is mostly done burning the trees and brush above ground and has moved on to ...
Global forest fire carbon emissions have jumped 60% in 20 years
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions released from forest fires have increased by 60% around the world since 2001, as “more and bigger blazes tore ...
Bulletin 114: Wildland Fire in Alaska
1969 – Cloud seeding project began in Alaska as an experimental fire suppression tool. 1969 – Over 4 million acres burned in Alaska, primarily on two fires in ...
Oct. 30, 2024 — In fire-prone areas, water isn't the only thing used to quell blazes. Wildland firefighters also apply chemical or synthetic ...
Hot New Environmental Threat: Zombie Fires That Come Back to Life
Researchers have developed a computer algorithm that can identify zombie fires that smolder in Arctic, carbon-rich peat soils.
NASA Flights Link Methane Plumes to Tundra Fires in Western Alaska
Researchers found that methane hot spots were roughly 29% more likely to occur in tundra that had been scorched by wildfire in the past 50 years compared to ...
Alaska's biggest tundra fire sparks climate warning | New Scientist
Rocha's team placed carbon dioxide and radiation sensors across the fire-scar and found that in the year after the fire, the most severely ...
ABoVE » Contacts - NASA Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems
Epic blazes threaten Arctic permafrost. Can firefighters save it? View Story. 2024-04-29. Earth.com. Arctic lakes produce less methane than previously thought.
Handy Dandy: Firefighting Field Guide
The CGF also hosts a Helicopter Manager and. Unit Aviation Officer. ALASKA WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT. 11. Page 14. Tongass National Forest fire management staff ...
Carbon released by forest fires surges 60% globally in two decades
“To protect critical forest ecosystems from the accelerating threat of wildfires, we must keep global warming at bay and this underscores why it ...
policy did not keep the new parks in Alaska from the forefront of interagency cooperation. Yet despite its long fire history, Yellowstone did not stand in ...
Fire suppression deployed in Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge ...
In an effort to preserve carbon stores, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently dedicated 1.6 million acres of the Yukon Flats refuge to piloting a new ...
Extreme Wildfires Became Twice as Frequent and Intense in 20 ...
The burning threatens to kindle a positive feedback loop, in which the carbon dioxide released during these fires contributes further to global ...
Alaska Archives - Page 2 of 12 - Wildfire Today
Firefighters in Alaska were able to stop the spread of the Elmore Fire on the east side of Anchorage Thursday at 13 acres before it spread into structures.
Alaska's Permafrost Is Burning. That's Not Good for You.
Our atmosphere thought it lost that carbon long ago. Today, however, all of a sudden, that carbon is being returned to the air through the ...
BLM Alaska Fire Service - Facebook
✈Two air attack airplanes to help coordinate the airspace over a fire and provide intelligence to ground forces. 24 small unmanned aerial systems (drones) that ...
How Wildfires Can Affect Climate Change (and Vice Versa)
Those historical emissions are part of the planet's natural carbon cycle. But human activities, including firefighting practices, are resulting ...