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Science
Los Angeles fires spread as winds expected to pick up
Smoke rises from the Palisades fire. Los Angeles’ deadliest fire spread through previously untouched areas on Saturday, forcing new evacuations and waning hopes that the disaster would be over. Multiple fires have ripped through residential areas since Tuesday, killing at least 11 people across the city and destroying thousands of homes in what US President Joe Biden likened to a…
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Environment
Wind break brings hope to Los Angeles fires
Families hug each other and cry as they look at their burnt-out homes in the Altadena neighborhood of Los Angeles County, California. Winds are expected to ease around Los Angeles on Friday, as massive efforts to extinguish five major fires wreaking havoc around the United States’ second-largest city intensify. One of the worst disasters to ever hit California, inferno has…
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Environment
Fires rage around Los Angeles, burning entire streets
A house is engulfed in flames in the Altadena area of ​​Los Angeles County. At least two people have been killed in the deadly wildfires raging around Los Angeles, authorities said Wednesday, as the deadly blaze scorched entire roads, destroyed cars and homes in minutes. Wildfires around America’s second-largest city have destroyed more than 1,000 buildings and displaced tens of…
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Science
The number of fires in Brazil’s Amazon is the highest in 17 years, authorities say.
Thick smoke occasionally clouded major cities such as Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo last year. Brazil’s Amazon rainforest experienced the most wildfires in 2024 in 17 years after months of prolonged drought, according to government data released Wednesday. According to the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), there were 140,328 fires detected through satellite imagery each year. This…
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Chemistry
Video: Science prevents Christmas tree fires
Credit: American Chemical Society Each year, Christmas tree fires occur in 160 homes in the United States. They’re hot, fast, dangerous, and preventable. In this video, the ACS Reactions team tests various Christmas tree watering conditions. This includes an internet recipe for fireproofing a Christmas tree with borax, and explores the science behind preventing these fires. With help from the…
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Space & Cosmos
A close look at solar fires: Newly analyzed data provides high-resolution views of the entire solar disk for the first time
Solar surface in visible light, constructed from data from Solar Orbiter’s instrument PHI on March 22, 2023. Credit: ESA&NASA/Solar Orbiter/PHI Team The entire solar disk in unprecedented detail. This is illustrated by images of the visible surface of the Sun. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research created it from 25 individual images taken by the ESA…
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Environment
Studies have shown that South America is facing an increased risk of heat waves, droughts and fires.
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In parts of South America, the number of extremely hot, dry and fire-prone days per year has tripled since 1970. South America is warming at a similar rate to the global average. However, some parts of the subcontinent are at increased risk of multiple simultaneous extreme weather events. These compound extreme weather events could have amplified…
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Environment
Brazilian farmers worried about fires and drought
An aerial view of forest fires in Brasilia National Park, Brazil, taken on September 15, 2024. As the twin disasters of fire and drought hit Brazil’s agriculture sector hard, sugarcane farmer Marcos Meloni still can’t forget battling a blaze on his land last month. “The rear-view mirrors on the water trucks shrank because of the heat,” recalled a farmer in…
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