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After some recent intense wildfires in Northern California, scientists tested samples of singed soil and were disturbed by their findings: It was laden with a cancer-causing metal called ...
A view of Los Angeles covered in smog. Pollution in California relates to the degree of pollution in the air, water, and land of the U.S. state of California.Pollution is defined as the addition of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or any form of energy (such as heat, sound, or radioactivity) to the environment at a faster rate than it can be dispersed, diluted, decomposed, recycled, or ...
The Thompson Fire has consumed over 3,700 acres in California’s Butte County since it was reported Tuesday, drawing hundreds of firefighters to battle the flames under the extreme heat in the ...
Three fast-moving wildfires have burned homes, caused injuries and scorched more than 100,000 acres across Southern California in a matter of days, leaving firefighting resources dangerously thin ...
The 2024 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned throughout the U.S. state of California. By the end of the year, a total of 8,024 wildfires burned a cumulative 1,050,012 acres (424,925 ha). The total number of wildfires was slightly higher than the five-year average, while the total number of acres burned was lower. [3]
Mosquito Fire A pyrocumulonimbus cloud rises from the Mosquito Fire on September 8, 2022 Date(s) September 6 (6-09) – October 22, 2022 (2022-10-22) (47 days) Location Placer County and El Dorado County, Northern California, United States Coordinates 39°00′22″N 120°44′42″W / 39.006°N 120.745°W / 39.006; -120.745 Statistics Burned area 76,788 acres (31,075 ha; 120 sq mi ...
An increase in catastrophic wildfires has reduced California tree cover by 6.7% since 1985, and researchers fear the lost trees will never grow back. California fires are so severe some forests ...
The 2020 Creek Fire was a very large wildfire in central California's Sierra National Forest, in Fresno and Madera counties. One of the most significant fires of California's record-setting 2020 wildfire season, it began on September 4, 2020, and burned 379,895 acres (153,738 ha) over several months until it was declared 100% contained on December 24, 2020.