$11M competition showed wildfire detection is still easier than stopping fires. Fire retardant balls dropped by Anduril’s Ghost-X drone explode […]
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Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution
The research doesn’t look at how much time the mother was spending outside, if she wore an N95 mask or […]
Europe’s free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires
Users could previously add this script manually to Copernicus Browser sessions by copying and pasting it using the custom visualization […]
Senators demand crackdown on wildfire “prediction markets”
But its primary rival, Polymarket, has taken a different approach. A spokesperson for Polymarket told Ars in an emailed statement […]
Firefighting drones in the works as wildfires plague US nearly year-round
Drones capable of spraying water and fire retardants have been practicing how to snuff out wildfires early in California and […]
Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada
Skip to content Peering through the smoke The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss. Three of the […]
Forecasters predict wildfires, floods, severe heatwaves from incoming El Niño
In almost every case, the WWA researchers found “human-induced climate change has a much greater influence on the likelihood and […]