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Between 145-65 million years ago, during the Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs needed to steer clear of widespread fires, new research indicates. Scientists were recently able to demonstrate that naturally-occurring fires were commonplace during those days.
The new investigation was carried out by experts at the Royal Ho... |
9 April 2012
03:53 GMT |
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A NASA satellite captured this frightening view of portions of southeastern Asia earlier this month, showing a massive cloud of smoke and haze covering portions of Burma, Laos and most of northern Thailand.
The cloud is believed to originate in massive agricultural and forest fires in the area. The NASA Terra satel... |
15 March 2012
05:07 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers in the United States just published a new paper in the top journal Science, describing how changes in sea temperatures can be used as a clear indicator for forecasting wildfires that will hit South America.
The team, led by experts from the University of California in Irvine (UCI) Dep... |
18 January 2012
14:01 GMT |
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A large area of land near Alice Springs, Australia, is currently plagued by large wildfires, which are moving through the landscape devouring everything in their path. A NASA satellite was recently able to image the natural disaster, assisting authorities in figuring out a way to handle the fires.
According to da... |
30 September 2011
02:42 GMT |
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The results of a new scientific investigation indicate that the frequency of wildfires sparked around the world has increased by 400 percent since the 1970s, when appropriate records began being kept. Experts are very curious as to whether this phenomenon is connected to global warming or not.
Wildfires are not b... |
15 September 2011
06:03 GMT |
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Fires raging on in Ontario, Canada, are producing vast amounts of pollution, experts say, and this pollution is currently making the 1,000-mile trip separating it from Niagara Falls. The NASA Aqua satellite is monitoring how the situation is progressing. In 2011 alone, more than 300,000 hectares burned due to wildfir... |
29 July 2011
03:10 GMT |
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A new study carried out by Canadian and US researchers, concluded that climate change actually causes wildfires to burn more intensely, thus releasing more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and speeding up the process.The research focused on northern wildfires and Jennifer Harden, a US Geological Survey scientist ... |
6 December 2010
03:49 GMT |
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A team of experts at the European Space Agency (ESA) says that the wildfires which affected the Russian capital and the rest of the country this year are the worst to take place over the last 14 years. The data that led to this conclusion were taken by specialized, Earth-sensing satellites that ESA operates in orbita... |
14 September 2010
04:08 GMT |
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Scientists at the Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Cape Town said in a research published yesterday that the high frequency of fires in the Cretaceous Period, some 120 to 65 million years ago, is responsible for the birth and spread of the first flowering plants.Apparently, flowers evolved d... |
8 September 2010
06:19 GMT |
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According to a number of top climate scientists, the heatwaves and wildfires that struck the Russian Federation over the past couple of months were not necessarily caused by global warming. They do not dispute that the worldwide phenomenon had a role to play, but say that Russian scientists exaggerated when they attr... |
18 August 2010
05:58 GMT |
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Experts at NASA are using their assets in orbit to search for and analyze carbon monoxide gas concentrations around the world.Their work was prompted by the fact that current wildfires, in the Russian Federation and elsewhere, are causing massive amounts of the stuff to be released in Earth's atmosphere. Far fro... |
12 August 2010
06:27 GMT |
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A new study shows that intense wildfires taking place in nature can also influence the atmosphere into producing massive thunderstorms. Scientists determined that the storms which are formed in this manner take place at higher altitudes than normal storms.One of the most interesting conclusions of the new research is... |
11 August 2010
03:18 GMT |
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This summer was disastrous for the Russian Federation. Excessive temperatures have triggered heat waves that sparked numerous wildfires all across the massive countr, and the smoke they produce can be felt above the capital city of Moscow as well. In fact, the city is covered in a massive blanket of smog, which featu... |
9 August 2010
05:02 GMT |
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Scientists are currently seriously considering using prescribed burns to manage at least some portions of the forests in the United States. They say that this method, which relies on burning certain swaths of land on purpose, has the ability to control the spreading of wildfires, and to therefore reduce the carbon fo... |
18 March 2010
04:51 GMT |
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For a long time, experts have believed that the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs was followed, immediately after the impact, by a combustion of the world's forests. The scientists thought that droplets of molten rock that were formed when the space rock hit heated up the atmosphere by a few degrees for mor... |
29 December 2009
02:27 GMT |
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A new archaeological investigation conducted on the Santa Rosa Island off the coast of Santa Barbara by scientists from the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) has revealed traces of nanodiamonds, which seem to indicate that a comet struck the location some 12,900 years ago. The team believes that traces... |
22 July 2009
09:48 GMT |
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Out of control fires this late October rampaging through California didn't wield shovels and houses, but rather high-tech technologies developed at the University of California. The use of these tools not only helped the region respond and recover, but save lives as well. These unpredictable fires exploit the f... |
8 November 2007
08:51 GMT |
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