Smoke changes as it ages, with implications for human health.
Fire
Rethinking the Wildland-Urban Interface
October 27, 2020 •
What does it even mean to live in a fire-risk zone now?
Size Isn’t the Best Way to Talk About Fires
October 22, 2020 •
One million acres. It seems an astounding number for a single fire. Even many fire scientists, who know full well that fire belongs in these forests, struggled to contain their surprise at how large the August Complex fire in the … Read more
As Fires Continue, Land Managers Start to Survey Ecological Damage and Recovery in Bay Area Parks
October 1, 2020 •
Burns have varied in intensity throughout the Bay Area, leading to different ecological effects.
Where There’s Good Fire, There’s Good Smoke
September 30, 2020 •
To prevent megafires, we need more fire. But that also means learning more about smoke.
Climate Change and Forest Management Have Both Fueled Today’s Epic Western Wildfires
September 16, 2020 •
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. What is driving the wildfires that are ravaging California, Oregon and Washington? President Trump and state officials have offered sharply different views. Trump asserts … Read more
Why the Bay Area Felt Like the Set of a Sci-fi Flick
September 16, 2020 •
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. On Sept. 9, many West Coast residents looked out their windows and witnessed a post-apocalyptic landscape: silhouetted cars, buildings and people bathed in an … Read more
Imagining and Treasuring Places We Love: CZU Fire Reflections
September 14, 2020 •
I write from a place of love, but also a place of pain. A place of excruciating unknowing. A place of imagination – imagining the worst, imagining the best, imagining change of a sort I’ve never encountered before in my … Read more
Wildfire, Like Lightning, Can Strike Twice
September 8, 2020 •
Thin, glowing traces of lightning passed through the skylight above my bed and circumvented my eyelids to etch their way directly onto my brain as I slept. I awoke with an unpleasant start, my first thought being: this can’t be … Read more
What Happens to Bees After a Fire? It Depends on the Fire.
September 1, 2020 •
Bumblebees live in wildly different types of habitats, have unique tastes, and aren’t necessarily the easiest things to track, making it hard to understand how their populations are faring.