Wildfires around Fort Nelson B.C. and Fort Liard N.W.T. have caused widespread telecommunications outages in Yukon and parts of N.W.T. — including 911 emergency services outages. Northern telecommunications provider Northwestel first announced outages on Friday night. As of Saturday morning, the telecom provider confirmed that cell service, long-distance landline calls, and internet were still down in Yukon, Northern B.C., and …
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By Carlyn Kranking Assistant Editor, Science and Innovation As darkness descends across the eastern coast of Australia, thousands of gray-headed flying foxes take to the skies. Armed with a keen sense of smell and sharp night vision, they roam to find food after resting all day. Some might travel as far as 30 miles in …
By Carlyn Kranking Assistant Editor, Science and Innovation As darkness descends across the eastern coast of Australia, thousands of gray-headed flying foxes take to the skies. Armed with a keen sense of smell and sharp night vision, they roam to find food after resting all day. Some might travel as far as 30 miles in …
Google has instructed its employees in the northeast region of the United States to work from home, following the thick smoke from hundreds of wildfires in Canada. The air quality in New York City, which on Wednesday was the worst of any city across the globe, continues to deteriorate as fires in eastern Canada rage …
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John Vaillant, author of “Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World,” recounts the harrowing experience of Tom Bates during the Australian bush fire season of 2002-2003. Bates captured on video a phenomenon, which was later named “pyro-tornadogenesis,” that was never before seen on Earth. While wildfires can generate small twisters known as fire …
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Photographs and accompanying text were provided by Andria Hautamaki. Jeff Greef had to evacuate his Northern California cabin when the Dixie Fire threatened the area. He had watched the sky darken with smoke and had taken precautions such as building the cabin with fire-resistant materials and thinning the surrounding forest. The Plumas Underburn Cooperative is …