Between that and the forest fires, it's turning out to be a post-apocalyptic binge year for morels.
And you have hurricane season coming up, and forest fires, and flooding along the Northeast Coast.
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Since then, firefighters are responding to fewer forest fires and letting more acres burn.
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For the third summer in a row, Portugal is coping with deadly forest fires.
Forest fires have done the most damage and continue to be the biggest threat.
Mudslides and forest fires that followed the earthquake appeared to be the final straw.
Natural aerosols are produced by sea salt, desert dust, volcanic eruptions and smoke from forest fires.
But there are global phenomena, such as forest fires, where the carbon-dioxide contributions are not fully understood.
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There is every sense in helping nations share expensive assets to confront menaces such as forest fires.
No droughts, no weeks of unending rain, no forest fires, no dead elms and few morels, until next year.
She will deal with security and policing, as well as national emergencies ranging from forest fires to epidemics.
Temperate-forest fires burn hot and fast, and sometimes all the way up to the crown of a tree.
It must be strange to have drought and forest fires there in Portugal.
In 1995, forest fires in Canada burned more than 17 million acres, an area half the size of Florida.
The heat has now subsided, but some forest fires have continued to burn.
Ice cores from before about 1850 show most soot came from forest fires.
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The rare times in which an American city has scored above 300 have been in the midst of forest fires.
The WWF has also developed pilotless special drone aircraft to detect poachers, locate forest fires and detect illegal felling of trees.
"We are confident that, after this publication, quite a few episodes of pollution from forest fires will be detected, " he said.
And finally, I will mention forest fires, since they are sometimes used by the media as a proxy for droughts and heat.
Cold winters and forest fires normally keep the beetle populations in check.
The summer season is upon us, and unless quick action is taken we'll once again face another round of unnecessary, devastating forest fires.
Forest fires have been increasing in remote regions of North America during the past decade due to prolonged drought periods and climate variability.
This was 2000, when Los Alamos was threatened by forest fires and had just been racked by the Wen Ho Lee nuclear secrets scandal.
Natural factors such as forest fires further affect air quality by emitting carbon monoxide and other gases that lead to the production of ozone.
Within a few years his little chips may help change everything from the cost of construction to how we fight forest fires--even the way we communicate.
Water authorities in Denver, for example, saw their filtration costs soar as forest fires in the surrounding watershed turned their clean water to goo.
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The effects of retreating glaciers on mountains and in polar regions, deforestation in South America and forest fires across sub-Saharan Africa are also shown in the atlas.
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Scientists studying such diverse phenomena as earthquakes, stockmarket crashes and forest fires have noticed, says Mr Buchanan, that their distributions all follow something called a power law.
You know how last summer, during the forest fires in central Russia, I went around to different regions that had been affected in order to help people rebuild their houses.
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