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Children's Forest Fire Detection System Deployed by Sony Europe!
LONDON, November 25 /PRNewswire/ -- - Potentially Life-Saving Invention Inspired by Children's Real Life Experience of Devastating Forest Fires Sony Europe today announces that its partners...
ITNews, Wed Nov 25 15:13:19 PST 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News ]
Pillars of science establishment release climate statement
This is a joint statement from the Met Office, the Natural Environment Research Council and the Royal Society on the state of the science of climate change ahead of the Copenhagen climate c...
Guardian Unlimited, Thu Nov 26 20:45:07 PST 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News ]
Jobs, economics complicate Brazil's Amazon fight
Drawing his .40-caliber pistol, Severiano Pontes dashes across the steaming, muddy jungle floor, a hunch telling him what he would find around a bend. The thick Amazon rain-forest canopy su...
AP via Yahoo! Singapore News, Fri Nov 27 05:08:00 PST 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News ]
Jobs, economics complicate Brazil's Amazon fight
The thick Amazon rain-forest canopy suddenly opens to a clearing where massive Jatobas and other hardwood trees have been reduced to 40 waist-high trunks lying on the ground. Fires set to h...
MalaysiaNews.net, Thu Nov 26 23:36:36 PST 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News ]
Forest fireworks fury in Macedon Ranges
POLICE say they are staggered by the sheer stupidity of people who lit fireworks in the Wombat State Forest.
Leader Community Newspapers, Wed Nov 25 13:12:25 PST 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News ]
Private forest owners hope to influence feds
Concerns about the lack of logging in federal forests and the resulting effects on forest health and the timber industry have prompted the Baker County Private Woodlands Association to appo...
Bakercityherald.com, Wed Nov 25 16:12:27 PST 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News ]
Since You Asked: BLM, Forest Service burn rules differ from private landowners
We live in the urban interface area in the Old Stage Road and Castle Terrace area. Today (Nov. 18) it is so smoky in our area that we cannot see in front of our faces because the Bureau of ...
The Mail Tribune, Fri Nov 27 02:16:40 PST 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News ]
Seeing San Francisco From a Different Angle
FRESH AIR AND VIEWS Bernal Heights Natural Area is an off-leash dog park. SAN FRANCISCO
New York Times, Thu Nov 26 17:41:40 PST 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News ]
Senate bill may speed Summit forest work
SUMMIT COUNTY - A new forest management bill introduced by Democratic Senator Mark Udall could make it easier for local Forest Service rangers to carry out logging projects to protect homes...
Summit Daily News, Tue Nov 24 00:15:15 PST 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News ]
Jobs, economics complicate Brazil's Amazon fight
Drawing his .40-caliber pistol, Severiano Pontes dashes across the steaming, muddy jungle floor, a hunch telling him what he would find around a bend. The thick Amazon rain-forest canopy su...
San Francisco Chronicle, Thu Nov 26 21:39:50 PST 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News ]
One of the first US 'crazies'
Earl Cooley was one of the first two men to parachute from an aircraft to fight a forest fire in what has become a well-used practice in the United States.
The Age, Fri Nov 27 05:35:49 PST 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News ]
Bad timing, Ted
Ted Kulongoski sometimes has exceptionally poor timing. Take, for instance, the Oregon governor
Bakercityherald.com, Fri Nov 27 11:27:26 PST 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News ]
Seeing San Francisco From a Different Angle
SAN FRANCISCO -- As fires raged downtown after the 1906 earthquake, residents of this city fled to two nearby districts to the south, Bernal Heights and Glen Park. Though part of San Franci...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Thu Nov 26 23:30:16 PST 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News ]
Jobs, economics complicate Brazil's Amazon fight
Drawing his .40-caliber pistol, Severiano Pontes dashes across the steaming, muddy jungle floor, a hunch telling him what he would find around a bend.
USA Today, Fri Nov 27 07:08:04 PST 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News ]
Reaching For The Stars
SEVEN years after fires razed Mount Stromlo observatory, a new telescope is set to give Australian astronomy a boost.
The Australian, Fri Nov 27 05:01:00 PST 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News ]
L.A. County supervisors urge U.S. firefighting reforms
The board wants the Forest Service to fly water-dropping helicopters at night and to use more local crews on fires in the Angeles National Forest. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisor...
Los Angeles Times, Tue Nov 24 20:14:13 PST 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News ]
LA County Supes vote to push changes in U.S. Forest Service firefighting policies
Allow night flying, cede more decision making to on-scene commanders and clear more brush around structures were among the policies that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted on...
KPCC Pasadena, Tue Nov 24 14:43:28 PST 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News ]
Wildland fire season officially ends
The U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Tule River Reservation Fire Department (TIA) and Kern County Fire Department (KCFD) officially declared the end of the 2009 ...
Kern Valley Sun, Thu Nov 26 22:52:53 PST 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News ]
IBM Technology Offers Real-Time Analysis of Forest Fires
Climate change has increased the unpredictability of weather patterns, and as residents of the Western U.S. know, that means a jump in the number of forest fires. In the past year alone, 76...
Fast Company Magazine, Fri Nov 20 06:54:30 PST 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News ]
The heat is on as forest fires rage in Australia
Sydney - More than 1,000 volunteer firefighters backed by 70 aircraft were tackling more than 100 forest blazes in Australia's parched south-east Sunday. Temperatures topped 40 degrees in S...
EARTHtimes.org, Sat Nov 21 22:44:05 PST 2009 [Found on Yahoo! News ]