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Robert B. Sowby and Braxton W. Porter
Even though drinking water utilities are not meant to fight wildfires, they quickly become stakeholders, if not first responders, when their resources are needed for firefighting. The August 2023 wildfires on the island of Maui, Hawaii, USA, have highlig...
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Samantha Schultz, Koreen Millard, Samantha Darling and René Chénier
Peatlands provide vital ecosystem and carbon services, and Canada is home to a significant peatland carbon stock. Global climate warming trends are expected to lead to increased carbon release from peatlands, as a consequence of drought and wildfire. Mon...
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Benjamin J. Hatchett, Alan M. Rhoades and Daniel J. McEvoy
Snowpack loss in midlatitude mountains is ubiquitously projected by Earth system models, though the magnitudes, persistence, and time horizons of decline vary. Using daily downscaled hydroclimate and snow projections, we examine changes in snow seasonali...
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Yushan Su, Uwayemi Sofowote, Anthony Munoz, Michael Noble, Chris Charron, Aaron Todd, Valbona Celo, Ewa Dabek-Zlotorzynska, Alla Kryukova and Teresa Switzer
Large mineral deposits have been discovered in Ontario?s Far North and are being considered for further development. Particulate matter and trace elements can be emitted from potential mining activities and these air pollutants are associated with health...
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SANTOSH KUMAR MISHRA
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Research studies have demonstrated the importance of the environment to human health. However, the damage caused to the global environmental health demands the policy makers to find answer to the question: are we living in harmony wit...
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Nikolaos Depountis, Maria Michalopoulou, Katerina Kavoura, Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos and Nikolaos Sabatakakis
In recent decades, wildfires have become a serious threat worldwide, producing disasters in the natural and anthropogenic environment as well as serious economic losses. One of wildfire?s major impacts is soil erosion, as it may cause major problems in b...
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Andrea Abbate, Laura Longoni, Vladislav Ivov Ivanov and Monica Papini
Landslides over steep slopes, floods along rivers plains and debris flows across valleys are hydrogeological phenomena typical for mountain regions. Such events are generally triggered by rainfall, which can have large variability in terms of both its in...
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Xochitl Cruz Núñez,Estefanía Bulnes Aquino
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Wildfires impact both ecosystems and human welfare, being carbon monoxide and PM2.5 particles the most critical emissions affecting human health. The impact of a fire in the Tepozteco National Park, in the state of Morelos, Mexico was evaluated on its po...
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Stavroula Dimitriadou, Konstantina Katsanou, Stavros Charalabopoulos and Nikolaos Lambrakis
The present study examines the factors that define groundwater quality of a site subjected to the wildfire of 2007 in Ilia Prefecture, Peloponnese. This wildfire was the most severe in Greece in the last decade. An extensive sampling was carried out thre...
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Harry R. Podschwit, Narasimhan K. Larkin, E. Ashley Steel, Alison Cullen and Ernesto Alvarado
Climate change is anticipated to influence future wildfire activity in complicated, and potentially unexpected ways. Specifically, the probability distribution of wildfire size may change so that incidents that were historically rare become more frequent...
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