Tag Archives: Environmental Health

Emergency declaration covers 41 of 58 counties     By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday expanded a drought emergency to a large swath of the nation’s most populous state while seeking ...

Wildfire burned 52% of watershed     FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — It’s nearly two years since a fire burned nearly 3.1 square miles (8.1 square kilometers) in hills north of Flagstaff but rows of concrete barriers and stacks of sandbags ...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.     Andrew J. Whelton, Purdue University (THE CONVERSATION) More than 58,000 fires scorched the United States last year, and 2021 is on track ...

Dryness could create a repeat of fires caused by lightning strikes     SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A giant sequoia has been found smoldering and smoking in a part of Sequoia National Park that burned in one of ...

The entire 18,000-acre park burned hard and fast for 24 hours     By MARTHA MENDOZA Associated Press Writer BIG BASIN REDWOODS STATE PARK, Calif. (AP) — Eight months after a lightning siege ignited more than 650 wildfires in Northern ...

State is bracing for another devastating wildfire season     By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Standing in the dry, cracked bottom of Lake Mendocino, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a drought emergency Wednesday in ...

Instead of focusing on denialism, climate misinformation is getting local     By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Climate scientists have warned for years that a warming planet would cause more extreme storms, like the one that ...

Removing Chinese Tallow and Cogon grass   BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources will intentionally set a fire on part of an undeveloped barrier island south of Biloxi. The prescribed burn is scheduled for Wednesday on ...

Potential trouble in several states     The Associated Press A messy nor’easter wasn’t enough to make up for a lack of late-season snow and dry spring weather, which is causing worries of another summer drought in New England, officials ...

The latest drought map shows much of the U.S. Southwest mired in drought     By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Restoring forests, using fire as a management tool and getting more buy-in from private land ...