Tag: Wildfires
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Wildfires and its Effects on Human Health
Introduction Wildfires and climate change are two significant topics among today’s headlines. Often times, the impacts that are seen either first hand or secondary are to the environmental aspect of the hazard. Remaining issues such as economic, safety, humanitarian response, and infrastructure stability to wildfires are often seen following the devastation that comes with the…
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Burning Holes in the Pocket-Wildfire Economics
Introduction Wildfires provide a plethora of dangers across the landscape. Quite often, these hazards can be visually seen. However, there remains secondary hazards and issues that are not often seen but can cause similar or additional damages, resulting in short and long-term impacts. One of these “hidden hazards” comes in the form of economic impacts.…
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Burning Alive: Wildfire Devastation
Introduction Wildfires bring several dangers and impacts to the wildlife, physical structures, and humans within the local region. Each fire contains it’s own identity in size, intensity, impacts, and other attributes. The previous blog within this series focused on the underlying positive affects of wildfires, primarily within the ecosystem. Although great changes can occur with…
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Introduction to Wildfires
Focal Region of United States of America Wildfire’s Wide-Ranging Impacts: Wildfires affect millions of individuals across the world with primary or secondary impacts. The most common idea of a wildfire relates to the removal of forests and homes via fire and destruction. However, several other issues arise when the forest burns. Although there aren’t direct…
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