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The second is: how much carbon do such wildfires release into the atmosphere?

A product of fire and a component of smoke, carbon monoxide is among the pollutants that wildfires spread across much of western Russia.

Separately, Russian officials are reporting progress against wildfires that have blackened parts of the country and polluted the air.

Russia has imposed a ban on grain exports until the end of the year, after a severe drought and a spate of wildfires devastated crops.

Wildfires that produce a lot of smoke are difficult to manage because the source of fire can be hard to see.

Police have arrested the man in connection with one of the deadly wildfires that swept Southern Australia .

Dry conditions across the American West have spurred water rationing, hurt crop production, and doubled the prevalence of wildfires.

Beetle infestations could affect any of these, in part by making the region prone to massive wildfires, Carroll said.

The wildfires story is all about networks.

Officials say one of last week's devastating Southern California wildfires was accidentally started by a boy playing with matches.

Smoke blowing from thousands of acres of wildfires around the Georgia-Florida line after police closing up nearly 100 miles of highway.

The heat waves, drought, wildfires, downpours, floods, and ruined crops closely match the predictions of climate scientists.

The program was intended to help improve natural disaster responses, fight wildfires, and help improve agricultural land use.

Wildfires that burned thousands of acres in Florida may have been sparked by a Molotov cocktail.

Authorities have now charged a man with lighting one of the deadly wildfires that ravaged southern Australia.

California, you may have heard, is an apocalyptic mess of raging wildfires, soaring unemployment, mass foreclosures and political paralysis.

The California resident has seen her share of wildfires, but says none has come as close to her as this one.

CALIFORNIA, though regarded by some as one of the more civilised parts of the world, is prey to wildfires.

In February, 173 people died in wildfires that ravaged parts of the southern Australian state of Victoria.

Satellite images of the Earth show that wildfires are rare in, say, northern Europe, and common in parts of central Africa and Australia.

Many drier forests, including here east of the Cascades, have grown unnaturally dense after logging and efforts to save them from wildfires.

It appears one of the California wildfires was accidently sparked by a bonfire lit by a group of college students.

This part of the country might actually welcome a little rain in September, just to forestall the possibility of wildfires.

Dozens of area homes have been destroyed in the wildfires that have been fueled by dry conditions, high winds, and low humidity.

Meanwhile, the parched landscape increases the occurrence of wildfires, threatening agriculture, wildlife and hundreds of Australian homes.

Wildfires have directly killed at least 54 people and left thousands homeless.

Chernobyl's current firefighting protection system includes watchtower lookouts triangulating wildfires sites by radio.

More than 80 people are dead as a result of the worst wildfires in Australia in a quarter century.

It's one of the largest and longest burning wildfires in California history.

An uncontrollable wave of wildfires sweeping across European Russia is adding to farmers' woes , threatening their land with destruction .

This "self-shielding" may have prevented global wildfires and limited other environmental effects from the impact, Goldin said.

Wildfires raged across Russia this summer, killing dozens, leaving thousands homeless, and devastating vast tracts of farmland.

The Forest Service had a plane that it wanted to use to drop water bombs onto wildfires.

Mr. Medvedev spoke as firefighters reported new gains against wildfires in forests across much of the country.

the timber and other building materials have been buried in the sandy soil to reduce the amount of radioactivity dispersed by wildfires.

A tornado and wildfires fueled by strong winds have caused widespread destruction in the southern United States.

This causes plants to die, and provides more opportunities for wildfires, increasing the atmospheric carbon-dioxide level.

Droughts spread through the sub-tropics, accompanied by heatwaves and intense wildfires.

This change in climate is leading to more frequent wildfires, which could devastate the region's ecosystems.

The game's date and time had been in question because Qualcomm Stadium was being used as a major evacuation center during the wildfires.

Unrelated to the cloud cover, a dull gray smoke plume appears east of Alaska. The plume probably results from wildfires in Canada.

Authority investigators are looking for one or more arson suspects linked to several wildfires burning across central portion of the state.

Australia suffered its worst-ever outbreak of wildfires in February, in which more than 170 people died across Victoria.

The wheat crop was heavily damaged and wildfires spread across the country.

After weeks of wildfires, the first tropical storm of the season is welcome news for fire crews in Florida and Georgia.

Mr Putin went further, comparing the wildfires to an invasion by mystical foreign "dog-knights" .

So gird yourself for such strange effects as savage wildfires, disappearing lakes, and freak allergies.

Wildfires caused by the heat are ragging in Greece, Italy and Macedonia.

In many areas there was nothing to impede the terrible mud slides because the wildfires of 1993had destroyed all the vegetation.

Russia's summer misery continued, as forest wildfires spread across large swathes of the country.

From the Rocky Mountains to the coast of California, wildfires are burning bigger, hotter, and closer to home.

The goal, then, is to encourage landowners to do more to prevent wildfires from starting and spreading.

The extreme temperatures are also raising concerns about wildfires in several states.

Australian firefighters continue to battle a dozen blazes still burning in Victoria State. That's where wildfires took more than 180 people.

Coastal fog has brought hope of relief to firefighters battling Northern California's wildfires.

With rumours on the internet spreading like wildfires, it has been very difficult to ascertain what is real and what is just speculation.

Rotational grazing can even help prevent wildfires by keeping grasslands in good condition.

To the insurance industry, wildfires thus bear some resemblance to hurricanes.

Rotational grazing can even help prevent wildfires by keeping grassland in good condition.

But whereas Hurricane Katrina's victims were mostly poor people, wildfires mainly affect the rich.

The Ministry has dispatched additional firefighting units and 16 aircraft and helicopters to fight wildfires in central Russia.

Wildfires are common across Australian during the summer months but rarely claim so many homes.

Wildfires are scorching the Malibu area, destroying homes and forcing others to flee to safer ground.

Assume that steep slopes and areas burned by wildfires are vulnerable to landslides and debris flows.

A landscape with an average of 45 people per square kilometre is ideal for sparking wildfires.

And it says climate change has increased the risk of natural disasters, especially severe dry weather, wildfires, major storms and floods.

Global climate change, it seems, will further stoke the rangeland wildfires.

That's almost a full day after authorities said flames from nearby wildfires were crossing the highway.

He says that a warming planet will dry out forests in tropical areas making them much more likely to suffer from wildfires.

A second source of carbon monoxide is Alberta, Canada, where large wildfires are burning.

Olshany, Russia: Charred trees remain standing after wildfires passed through the area.

Now, we're going to go to Australia, where intense heat and strong winds are fueling the flames of two wildfires.

Meantime, soot and dust from this week's wildfires is making the air quality especially bad there.

Big Sur naturalist John Smiley calls the wildfires simply "another type of weather. "

Sunday is a national day of mourning in Australia for the more than 200 people killed by massive wildfires this month.

All right when you close to nature it, there are niaoyuhuaxiang, have "wildfires burn" grass flavor, and the brilliant sunshine.

Dry weather plus strong winds equals the perfect conditions for wildfires.

In 2007, unprecedented wildfires raged across Greece, nearly destroying the ancient site of Olympia.

Nizhny Novgorod has been particularly badly hit by the deadly wildfires that have swept across European Russia in the past 10 days.

Russia is struggling to contain hundreds of wildfires in forests and arable land caused by continuing high temperatures.

Dozens are dead in Greece as wildfires burn for the third day, Fires are closing in on a site of ancient Olympics.

In September wildfires swept through the town of Bastrop, outside Austin, destroying more than 1, 000 homes.

At the same time, states like Texas and Oklahoma are experiencing extremely dry weather and high winds that have caused wildfires.

With the droughts, wildfires scourge more acreage and people resentfully ration.

These days many wildfires are started by humans, either on purpose or by accident.

Though human activity is responsible for 98% of all wildfires, arson starts a surprisingly small proportion of them.

This summer, severe drought and wildfires in Russia sharply reduced the world's wheat supply.

Strong winds are fueling deadly wildfires that have killed three people in Texas.

More than 50 large uncontained wildfires are burning across the country right now.

See pictures of the wildfires burning in Russia.

Wildfires have forced thousands of people from their homes in southern California.

Like the Texas wildfires? Is that what the China human rights report said? Lol.

We're quite susceptible to earthquakes. We've just had wildfires.

Helicopters in the Fight Against Wildfires.

Wildfires fuelled by the warm Santa Ana winds.

Droughts and wildfires will occur more often.

Toxic smoke from wildfires returns to Moscow.

Climate satellite keeps tabs on U. S. West wildfires.

Wildfires are certainly a problem in Brazil.

Modern technology cannot protect us from storms, wildfires and other acts of nature.

An expectedrise in temperature and increase in wildfires by midcentury couldthreaten this diversity.

Moscow put a halt to the exports because of low yields caused by the wildfires, record heat and drought.

Wildfires in the past decade have burned longer, destroyed more land, and happened more often than ever before.

Q: How do you evaluate the role of RuNet (the Russian language Internet) during the wildfires this summer?

Goldammer is relieved that the Russian government has said it will take action to prevent wildfires in the future.

There are wildfires in the south-west and water restrictions in the south-east.

More than 180 people died in Australia's worst-ever wildfires.

Wildfires in the Californian counties of San Diego and San Bernadino in 2003 each resulted in payouts of roughly $1 billion.

A smoke cloud raises from the wildfires near Mount Wilson in Los Angeles, on Monday, Aug.

Florida alone has had nearly 4, 000 wildfires since the start of the year, with about 200, 000 acres (80, 000 hectares) burned.

The wildfires during the summer of 1988 were the largest in the history of the park.

Dozens are dead in Greece as wildfires burn for the third day.

This is an image of wildfires in the Alaskan Interior.

Three wildfires, which are now largely under control, have destroyed nearly 1, 000 homes and burned more than 17, 000 hectares of land.

Around 4, 000 people were evacuated from their homes as wildfires raged on La Palma, the fifth-largest of Spain's Canary Islands.

Tropical wildfires are different from the ones that happen in temperate woodlands, for example in the western United States.

Last year, high winds stoked wildfires in Southern California and destroyed thousands of homes.

Wildfires were raging on the outskirts of Athens today, destroying homes and forcing 10, 000 of people to flee.

Heat and drought fuelled wildfires that devastated Calfornia last year and may convince the US that carbon emissions must fall.

Higher world prices are partly to blame. So are drought and wildfires last year which hurt crops.

The periodic wildfires mean the current oldest inhabitant of the thicket is probably around 130 years old.

Areas where wildfires or human modification of the land have destroyed vegetation;

Long-term Interactions between Migratory Caribou, Wildfires and Nunavik Hunters Inferred from Tree Rings

Modeling catchment erosion after wildfires in the San Gabriel Mountains of southern California

Drought, heat wave and wildfires in the Southern Plains and Southwest (spring and summer): Over $5 billion in damage

WEEKLY ADDRESS: An All-Hands-On-Deck Approach to Fighting the Colorado Wildfires

Wildfires threaten mercury stocks in northern soils

Wildfires wreak havoc in southern California

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