A new study shows that some of Yellowstone National Park’s forests may be at a climate tipping point, and could be replaced by grassland by the middle of this century.
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January 17, 2019
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November 14, 2018
A guide to wildfire experts at the Earth Institute.
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November 12, 2018
Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, has found that rising temperatures influence wildfires in the American West.
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May 30, 2018
Sunny California may be getting too sunny. Increasing summer temperatures brought on by a combination of intensifying urbanization and warming climate are driving off once-common morning cloud cover in southern coastal areas of the state, leading to increased risk of wildfires.
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October 27, 2017
During a conference at Columbia University, scientists pinpointed areas where advances in fire prediction can be made within the next decade.
