Remote Sensing, Vol. 14, Pages 5965: Spatiotemporal Assessment of Forest Fire Vulnerability in China Using Automated Machine Learning

2022-11-25T10:02+0100mdpi (en)

Frequent forest fires cause air pollution, threaten biodiversity and spoil forest ecosystems. Forest fire vulnerability assessment is a potential way to improve the ability of forests to resist climate disasters and help formulate appropriate forest management countermeasures.

Forests, Vol. 13, Pages 1988: Economic Loss Assessment and Spatial–Temporal Distribution Characteristics of Forest Fires: Empirical Evidence from China

2022-11-24T15:42+0100mdpi (en)

Forest fires are a type of disaster with both human and natural factors; they differ from other forest disasters, in that they can cause significant damage not only to the ecological environments but also to the economy and society in many irreversible ways.

Turning the tide on water wastage

2022-11-18T03:38+0100euranetplus-inside (en)

Extreme weather events. Heat waves and droughts lead to water shortages and forest fires, while heavy rainfall can bring about flooding and mighty storms. Both weather extremes have devastating economic, social and even psychological impact on affected regions.

Forests, Vol. 13, Pages 1939: A Comparative Study on the Drivers of Forest Fires in Different Countries in the Cross-Border Area between China, North Korea and Russia

2022-11-17T13:48+0100mdpi (en)

The occurrence and spread of forest fires are the result of the interaction of many factors. In cross-border areas, different fire management systems may lead to different forest fire driving factors. A comparative analysis of the forest fire driving factors in different countries can help to provide ideas for fire prevention and control.

Tibet sets up first airborne emergency rescue team

2022-11-16T08:21+0100peopledaily (en)

LHASA, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Southwest China 's Tibet Autonomous Region has set up its first airborne rescue team for emergency response. The 20-member team, co-established by the administration of emergency management in the city of Nyingchi and the city's forest fire brigade, will mainly be....

Tibet sets up first airborne emergency rescue team

2022-11-16T08:03+0100ecns (en)

Southwest China 's Tibet Autonomous Region has set up its first airborne rescue team for emergency response. The 20-member team, co-established by the administration of emergency management in the city of Nyingchi and the city's forest fire brigade, will mainly be responsible for rescue and relief....

Tibet sets up first airborne emergency rescue team

2022-11-16T07:36+0100china.org.cn (en)

LHASA, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Southwest China 's Tibet Autonomous Region has set up its first airborne rescue team for emergency response. The 20-member team, co-established by the administration of emergency management in the city of Nyingchi and the city's forest fire brigade, will mainly be....

Tibet sets up first airborne emergency rescue team

2022-11-16T07:23+0100xinhuanet-english (en)

LHASA, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Southwest China 's Tibet Autonomous Region has set up its first airborne rescue team for emergency response. The 20-member team, co-established by the administration of emergency management in the city of Nyingchi and the city's forest fire brigade, will mainly be....

¿Cultivando niebla por agua? Canarias aprovecha un nuevo embalse.

2022-11-14T22:17+0100nuevoperiodico (es)

A medida que las Islas Canarias y las regiones de todo el mundo buscan combatir los efectos del cambio climático, la recolección de niebla se está convirtiendo en una tecnología cada vez más viable para las comunidades que enfrentan desafíos de erosión del suelo y suministro de agua.

China Renews Alert For Drought

2022-11-14T05:55+0100menafn (en)

- IANS) Beijing, Nov 14 (IANS) China 's national observatory has renewed an alert for drought, as multiple regions continue to experience a lack of rainfall. Moderate to severe drought lingers in some areas of Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan, Chongqing,....

China renews yellow alert for drought

2022-11-13T02:47+0100china.org.cn (en)

An official checks rice damage caused by drought in Tangshan Village of Shixi Township, Tongzi County of Zunyi City, southwest China 's Guizhou Province, Aug. 24, 2022. [Photo/Xinhua] China's national observatory on Saturday renewed a yellow alert for drought, as multiple regions continue to suffer a lack of rainfall.

Remote Sensing, Vol. 14, Pages 5724: Effects of Forest Fire Prevention Policies on Probability and Drivers of Forest Fires in the Boreal Forests of China during Different Periods

2022-11-12T10:42+0100mdpi (en)

Fire prevention policies during different periods may lead to changes in the drivers of forest fires. Here, we use historical fire data and apply the boosted regression tree (BRT) model to analyze the spatial patterns and drivers of forest fires in the boreal forests of China from 1981 to 2020 (40 years).

Predictive model of spatial scale of forest fire driving factors: a case study of Yunnan Province, China

2022-11-08T22:59+0100nature-Earth-and-Environmental-Sciences (en)

Forest fires are among the major natural disasters that destroy the balance of forest ecosystems. The construction of a forest fire prediction model to investigate the driving mechanism of fire drivers on forest fires can help reveal the mechanism of forest fire occurrence and its risk, and thus....

Climate crisis: past eight years were the eight hottest ever, says UN

2022-11-06T19:15+0100newsbreak-USA (en)

Forest fires approach the village of Pefki on Evia, Greece's second-largest island, in August during the worst heatwave in decades. The past eight years were the eight hottest ever recorded, a new UN report has found, indicating the world is now deep into the climate crisis. The internationally agreed 1.

Remote Sensing, Vol. 14, Pages 5546: Forest Fire Occurrence Prediction in China Based on Machine Learning Methods

2022-11-03T10:53+0100mdpi (en)

Forest fires may have devastating consequences for the environment and for human lives. The prediction of forest fires is vital for preventing their occurrence. Currently, there are fewer studies on the prediction of forest fires over longer time scales in China . This is due to the difficulty of forecasting forest fires.

Ministries warn of drought, other natural disaster risks for November

2022-11-01T17:26+0100globaltimes (en)

Aerial photo taken on Aug. 24, 2022 shows a section of the Yangtze River in Chaisang District of Jiujiang City, east China 's Jiangxi Province. Due to continuous high temperature and less rainfall, the water level of Yangtze River in some parts of Jiujiang City has fallen significantly.

Four years of reform and transformation of the national comprehensive fire rescue team: rescue and evacuation of more than 2.39 million people in distress

2022-11-01T02:35+0100tellerreport (en)

2022-11-01T01:33:24.295Z. Since the team was restructured, it has successively completed major tasks such as flood relief and rescue in the main stream of Heilongjiang, urban flood relief in Zhengzhou, Henan, search and rescue of missing persons in Ailao Mountain in Yunnan, and rescue of a magnitude 6.