Tag: "wildfires"

Sudden Oak Death Plus Wildfire: A Natural Experiment

Sudden Oak Death Plus Wildfire: A Natural Experiment

A natural experiment created by the overlap of the Basin Complex Fire and a UC Davis study allowed scientists to test whether SOD did in fact make wildfire worse. What they found was not what the news media or the firefighters predicted.

 
Jennifer Skene

Post on Jan 31, 2011 by

Reporter's Notes: Condor Return

Reporter's Notes: Condor Return

By now, I am used to the usual suspects of species degradation: urban sprawl, loss of habitat, pollution, shrinking resources. Those are almost always given as the explanation for why a particular species is threatened or endangered. This surprised me.

 
David Gorn

Post on Oct 17, 2008 by

Reporter's Notes: California Ablaze

Reporter's Notes: California Ablaze

One thing you try to learn, covering these stories, is how to navigate around the tricky subject of climate change. The trickiness isn't if it's happening, but rather what, exactly, it's doing, what the effects are. Take this year's particularly nasty fire season, for example. We've had the driest spring in 80 years, and warm [...]

 
Amy Standen

Post on Jul 03, 2008 by