Giant sequoias are built to withstand ordinary fires, but recent extreme wildfires killed thousands of trees that had survived for centuries or even millennia. A new analysis of about 26,400 sequoias found that trees in areas treated with prescribed burns were nearly four times more likely to survive.
Researchers estimate the controlled fires prevented about 1,900 deaths and could have saved thousands more if used across every grove…
Source: ScienceDaily | Natural Disasters
ScienceDaily | Natural Disasters
- Geologists reveal the Americas collided millions of years earlier than thought
- Indonesia’s most dangerous fires are burning underground
- Deep beneath Mars, scientists find a vast hidden magma system
- Earth may have lost the Sun’s protective shield millions of years ago
- A massive plume deep beneath Africa is pulling the continent apart
- One of Earth’s driest places was just covered in snow
- Hundreds of hidden earthquakes found at Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier
- The next Cascadia megaquake could hit Oregon harder than expected
- Forces deep inside Earth helped Antarctica freeze before the Arctic
- Europe’s wildfires became so intense they created their own storm
