News Feature: Foreseeing fires [Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences]

To predict future wildfires, researchers are building models that better account for the vegetation that fans the flames. Wildfire ripped through the black spruce forests of Eagle Plains, Yukon Territory, Canada in 1990. Fire came again in 2005. By the time plant ecologist Carissa Brown arrived in the summer of...
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - Category: Science Authors: Tags: News Features, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Sciences Source Type: research