This is so nutty (cubed) it's creepy. Yep, a patent for artillery shells that explode and spray retardant. Maybe Boeing should concentrate on building planes that don't fall apart and spacecraft that don't maroon passengers.
Smoke obscured the view, but not the insights - delightful tour of the Tobacco Root Mountains with Mark Fiege and Michael Reidy. Will deliver the Stegner Lecture at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman tomorrow evening - appropriately on fire.
August 5 - the 75th anniversary of the Mann Gulch fire. The fire made Life Magazine and impacted many individuals, but had little institutional or social influence until Norman Maclean's Young Men and Fire, posthumously published in 1992, connected wildland fire with the wider culture.
Canadian Geographic gave me 800 words to comment on Canada's fire scene, perhaps setting it within the #Pyrocenecanadiangeographic.ca/articles/spl...
Stephen J. Pyne, the author of Awful Splendour: A fire history of Canada, says we are well beyond learning to live with fire — we now have to live with a fire age
It is one of the worst and longest heatwaves hittin4 #Mexico.More#wildfires#Yucatan#drought#GOES16#oladecalor#climateemergency@katharinehayhoe.com
SciAm asked to publish my plenary talk at AGU. I had no written talk, just running captions for the images, which I expected to do the heavy lifting. But I imagined what a written version might look like. My thanks to editor Mark Fischetti. www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-a...
Anthropocene is much more that a geological epoch 🌎🔥🐦⬛🌏 Anthropocene, Pyrocene, and the Ravencene: fire use and abuse and the risks of environmental upheaval communities.springernature.com/posts/anthro...
The Anthropocene concept is of great utility in Earth System Science, despite being rejected as a geological epoch by specialist stratigraphers. I illustrate this with reference to the concepts of th...
Big fire seasons in Mexico tend to align with El Ninos. We'll see what the monsoon brings. apnews.com/article/mexi...
