Barbecued food has unique and often delicious flavors. A food chemist explains how the process of grilling over an open flame can produce flavors unattainable through other cooking methods.
Wind quickly spread a blaze that burned homes near Flagstaff, Ariz., in April 2022.
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Fire season is getting longer, and the result is transforming iconic desert ecosystems. The start to 2022 has been so dire, one governor called for a federal disaster declaration.
A water chopper hovers over University of Cape Town on April 18, 2021 as a wildfire spread across the mountain.
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Dry, windy conditions have fueled destructive wildfires in Texas, Florida and other states in 2022. Understanding these terms can help people in fire-risk areas prepare.
Satellites captured the tree loss from Hurricane Michael in 2018. This is where fires were burning in 2022.
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Climate change threatens the crucial storage of carbon in Aussie forests. Victoria’s national parks alone store almost 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.
Fires in arid Australia are extensive, largely unmanaged, often destructive and significantly under-reported.
When water and boiling oil mix, the result can be explosive, as seen in this demonstration.
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Deep-fried turkeys are delicious, but making one can be dangerous. The scientific reason for fiery Thanksgiving mishaps? A difference in the densities of ice, water and oil.
The fire at Susan Bay magnified the lack of disaster management in Sierra Leone.
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While promoting better risk reduction is always sensible, it leads to a tendency for disaster management systems to lean heavily on experience and systems designs of other countries
The majority of fire-related deaths that occurred in 2020 took place in people’s homes.
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Last year, 3,500 Americans were killed by house fires. A former fire and explosion investigator has 10 tips to keep you and your children safe this holiday season.
A man from Skuppah Indian Band rides off on his motorcycle after stopping to watch a wildfire burn on the side of a mountain in Lytton, B.C., in July 2021.
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A fire scientist explains the risk of flying embers that can travel over a mile from a wildfire and how people can protect their homes.
Satellites can quickly detect and monitor wildfires from space, like this 2017 fire that encroached on Ventura, California.
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Satellites can already spot a new fire within minutes, but the information they beam back to Earth isn’t getting to everyone who needs it or used as well as it could be.
Dry conditions across the West follow a hot, dry year of record-setting wildfires in 2020. Communities were left with scenes like this, from California’s Creek Fire.
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Drought conditions are so bad, fish hatcheries are trucking their salmon to the ocean and ranchers are worried about having enough water for their livestock.
Fire in one part of a community can contaminate the water system used by other residents, as Santa Rosa, California, discovered after the Tubbs Fire.
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