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Researchers found that the majority of their cohort, 65%, still live in temporary housing, while 58% lost their jobs to the wildfires and 24% are still jobless and searching. Most, 74%, reported a ...
More importantly, fires have long-term effects on the post-burn environment. Fires in seldom-burned rainforests can cause disasters. For example, El Niño-induced surface fires in central Brazilian Amazonia have seriously affected the habitats of birds and primates. [22] Fires also expose animals to dangers such as humans or predators.
Among those who have lost their home to the Palisades fire is Dr. Ashraf M. Elsayegh, a pulmonologist with Providence Saint John's Health Center, who hasn't returned to his residence to assess the ...
LA wildfires live: Residents face new threats of mudslides and ‘toxic ash’ as rain hits Southern California ... More than 28 people have died in the blazes. The major L.A. fires are all at ...
Ecophysiology (from Greek οἶκος, oikos, "house(hold)"; φύσις, physis, "nature, origin"; and -λογία, -logia), environmental physiology or physiological ecology is a biological discipline that studies the response of an organism's physiology to environmental conditions.
Fire ecology is a scientific discipline concerned with the effects of fire on natural ecosystems. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Many ecosystems, particularly prairie , savanna , chaparral and coniferous forests , have evolved with fire as an essential contributor to habitat vitality and renewal. [ 3 ]
At least 11 people have died and more than 12,000 structures have been destroyed since fires broke out in the LA area beginning Tuesday, Jan. 7. Tens of thousands of acres have been burned through ...
When witnessing fire or smoke (even if the fire poses no threat, such as a candle), suspecting a fire is nearby, or (in some cases) visualizing fires, pyrophobes exhibit typical psychological and physiological symptoms of fear and panic: acute stress, fast heartbeat, shortness of breath, tightness in chest, sweating, nausea, shaking or trembling, dry mouth, needing to go to the bathroom ...