Our research in NASA ABoVE Phase I and II projects has been focused on the integration of remote sensing, spatial analysis, field data and modeling to understand the vulnerability of peatlands and ...

GORNO-ALTAISK, June 9 (Itar-Tass) — Relatives identified the bodies of all the eight firefighters in Kyzyl on Saturday, a Tuva government source told Itar-Tass. The firefighters died when fighting a ...

Some 50 people and 16 units of machinery, including fire engines, tractors and bulldozers are involved in the fire-fighting efforts in the national park ULAN-UDE, May 25 (Itar-Tass) —— Three forest ...

Imagine a forest engulfed in flames, the air thick with smoke, as trees crackle and fall. This is the terrifying reality of a wildfire—a fast-moving fire that spreads uncontrollably across forests, ...

Equipped with knives, fire strikers and ropes, members of the Volchitsa ("She-wolf") Hiking Club set out into the wild forest, mountains or tundra, where they live on whatever food they can find and ...

TAIGA, Russia, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- A fire at a Russian psychiatric hospital killed nine people, a day after a blaze at a Moscow drug treatment center killed 45 women, fire officials said Sunday.