bably explain why Météo France has decided to launch a forest weather forecast for next summer. Global warming and drought are causing an increase in forest fires, especially during the summer months. To prevent this risk, Météo France will soon publish a daily bulletin, with the support of the ...
d killed 64 people) that Portugal became a model for forest management and fire prevention. The country has changed the way it manages the risk of forest fires by directly addressing the roots of the problem: lack of maintenance, lack of information to the population, and the predominance of extr ...
that the heat and especially the dryness of the soil are worrisome. The prospect of a hot and drier than normal summer is feared, which could increase the risk of forest fires. Nevertheless, the record heat and dryness of spring 2022 does not necessarily mean that summer 2022 will be very hot. M ...
ing lightning bolts appear in the sky that, unlike raindrops, reach the ground. A dreaded plague for the forests For firefighters fighting summer forest fires, the announcement of thunderstorms is not necessarily good news... Indeed, it only takes lightning to fall on a tree for an entire forest ...
Pacific Rim countries like Indonesia and Australia will be directly affected by warming waters, with warmer and drier weather, increasing the risk of drought and forest fires. It is also causing a lack of water in the Amazon rainforest, the Australian rainforest and parts of the African forests. ...
continents, from Australia to North America, including Italy and Brazil. Meanwhile, Russia and China have already used this technique to extinguish forest fires or for more trivial reasons. These two countries are known to trigger rain the day before major events (such as the opening ceremony of t ...
