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Tag: Wildfire

How Extreme Wildfires Made the COVID Pandemic Deadlier
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.
June 12, 2021June 11, 2021 Ashley Marranzino
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…
January 24, 2014January 24, 2014 Kari St.Laurent
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)…
December 20, 2013December 23, 2013 Kari St.Laurent

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