Human Health
How Extreme Wildfires Made the COVID Pandemic Deadlier
Wildfires in California have been causing COVID-19 cases and deaths to skyrocket, and El Niño may be playing a role.
Tag: Wildfire
Biogeochemistry Climate Change Paleoceanography
We didn’t start the fire!… that changed the southeast Australian landscape 44 thousand years ago
A sediment core suggests that the large ecosystem changes that occurred in southeastern Australia were caused by the extinction of…
Biogeochemistry Climate Change Paleoceanography
Why lions can thank wildfires for the African Savanna
Sediment records show that wildfires caused the initial expansion of grasslands in Africa during the Miocene (8 million years ago)…