Smoke Blankets North America

A thick layer of smoke blankets large parts of North America, as also illustrated by the animation below based on images from July 15 to 18,...

More extreme weather can be expected

The heaviest rains and floods in 120 years have hit Serbia and Bosnia this week, Reuters and Deutsche Welle report. The animation below sh...

Escalating extreme weather events to hammer humanity

By Paul Beckwith Extreme weather events are rocketing upwards in their frequency of occurrence, intensity, and duration and are impacting ne...

More on Wildfires

Previous posts have highlighted the huge amounts of carbon dioxide, methane and soot being emitted as a result of wildfires. Apart from this...

Where does the methane come from?

[ image July 29, 2013. Click on image to enlarge ] Wildfires are still raging, sending huge amounts of smoke into the sky. Worryingly, much ...

Wildfires even more damaging

Wildfires cause even more damage than many climate models assume. Much has been written about the threat that wildfires pose to people's...

Wildfires in Canada affect the Arctic

created by Sam Carana with screenshot from  wunderground.com Wildfires can cause a lot of emissions. Obviously, when wood burns, carbon diox...

The Threat of Wildfires in the North

NASA/NOAA image based on Suomi NPP satellite  data from April 2012 to April 2013, with grid added A new map has been issued by NOAA/NASA. T...

Dark Snow Project - Research into soot on Greenland

Fossil fuel combustion creates carbon emissions that increase atmospheric thickness, warming climate. The occurrence of wildfire increases w...

Turning forest waste into biochar

Too much biomass waste in tundra and boreal forests makes them prone to wildfires, especially when heatwaves strike. Furthermore, leaving bi...