News tagged with fire occurrence


Plants may affect the effect of wildfires

Plants may affect the effect of wildfires

Biology / Ecology

created May 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rising temperatures may lead to more tinder-dry vegetation, but that doesn't mean there will be a higher risk for wildfires in a particular area.





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Scorched Earth millenium map shows 'fire scars'

Scorched Earth millenium map shows 'fire scars'

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 22, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 1

A geographer from the University of Leicester has produced for the first time a map of the scorched Earth for every year since the turn of the Millennium.


Plants could override climate change effects on wildfires

Plants could override climate change effects on wildfires

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- The increase in warmer and drier climates predicted to occur under climate change scenarios has led many scientists to also predict a global increase in the number of wildfires. But a new ...


Fire influences global warming more than previously thought

Fire influences global warming more than previously thought

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Fire's potent and pervasive effects on ecosystems and on many Earth processes, including climate change, have been underestimated, according to a new report.


Climate change to spur rapid shifts in wildfire hotspots

Climate change to spur rapid shifts in wildfire hotspots

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (35) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate change will bring about major shifts in worldwide fire patterns, and those changes are coming fast, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis led by researchers at the University of ...


Rasberry crazy ant

Rapacious Rasberry ants march north

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 10

Poor Texas. First it was killer bees, then fire ants. Now, it's the Rasberry ants.


Electrosurgical devices, lasers cited as most common igniters of operating room fires

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

While operating room fires can occur in a variety of clinical settings, it is the use of lasers and electrosurgical devices that are most likely to cause them. Those are the findings in new research presented at the 2009 ...


Smoking may now be considered an established risk factor for Lou Gehrig's disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

While previous studies have indicated a "probable" connection between smoking and ALS, a new study published in the Nov. 17, 2009 issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, states that s ...


Less than 1 in 3 Toronto bystanders who witness a cardiac arrest try to help: Study

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital working in conjunction with EMS services, paramedics and fire services across Ontario found that a bystander who attempts cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can quadruple the survival ...


A silo fire doesn't have to ruin all stored silage

A silo fire doesn't have to ruin all stored silage

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes, when harvest conditions are less than ideal, silage with lower-than-optimum moisture levels is put into a silo, potentially leading to excessive heating and a spontaneous-combustion ...


GE to sell security unit to United Technologies

Technology / Business

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US conglomerate General Electric on Thursday announced it would sell its security unit to United Technologies Corp. for 1.82 billion dollars.



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