News tagged with wild fires


Comet impact theory disproved

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (9) | comments 6

New data, published today, disproves the recent theory that a large comet exploded over North America 12,900 years ago, causing a shock wave that travelled across North America at hundreds of kilometres per hour and triggering ...





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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 ...


Aussie koala that survived fires dies in surgery (AP)

Aussie koala that survived fires dies in surgery

Biology / Plants & Animals

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

(AP) -- Sam the koala, who gained worldwide fame and sympathy when she was rescued during Australia's devastating wildfires this year, was euthanized Thursday after a veterinarian found the cysts that threatened ...


Livestock Can Help Rangelands Recover from Fires

Livestock Can Help Rangelands Recover from Fires

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A 14-year study by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Oregon found that rangelands that have been grazed by cattle recover from fires more effectively than rangelands that have ...


Researcher: Wild California just a memory

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 01, 2008 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

A California researcher said nearly all of California's 31 million acres of forest have been changed in some way by humans.


Unseasonably hot and dry weather combined with strong winds to fan scores of blazes in the country's southeastern states

Australia issues 'catastrophic' alerts as fires rage

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Australia has issued "catastrophic" alerts after record-breaking temperatures and wild lightning storms sparked more than 100 fires across the country, officials said Saturday.


A new chemical method for distinguishing between farmed and wild salmon

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Wild salmon and farmed salmon can now be distinguished from each other by a technique that examines the chemistry of their scales.


New orangutan population found in Indonesia (AP)

New orangutan population found in Indonesia

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 3

(AP) -- Conservationists have discovered a new population of orangutans in a remote, mountainous corner of Indonesia - perhaps as many as 2,000 - giving a rare boost to one of the world's most critically ...


Study: Ancient humans 'altered' climate

Other Sciences /

created Sep 09, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers say they've determined humans were influencing the planet's climate long before the Industrial Revolution.


A male flanged orangutan hangs from a tree in Malaysian Borneo's Sabah State

Malaysia tracks orangutans with implants

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Malaysian wildlife authorities are using electronic implants to keep track of orangutans in a bid to protect the endangered apes after they are freed into the wild, an official said Tuesday.


A Smoky Beach

Where there's wildfire smoke, there's toxicity

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The health threat to city dwellers posed by Southern California wildfires like those of November 2008 may have been underestimated by officials.



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