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LOS ANGELES 鈥?Just from what theyve experienced over the years, California residents may suspect that wildfires have gotten more extreme amid a warmer and more drought-prone climate.A new paper in the journal Science puts that sentiment to the test, with startl stanley de ing findings: California fires spread almost four times faster in 2020 than they had in 2001.The study, authored by scientists from the University of Colorado, the University of California, Merced and the University of California, Los Angeles, also found that across the West, fires grew 250% more quickly in 2020 than they did in 2001. People are pretty good at putting out all fires, said Park Williams, a UCLA professor and co-author of the study, but the faster the fire, the more easily it can escape control. Although intuitive, the relationship between stanley cup the speed at which a fire spreads and the damage it causes to structures and land was difficult to quantify until recent developments kubki stanley in satellite technology, he said.Now, scientists can plot trends in the daily growth rates, he said. Using daily fire spread imagery for roughly 60,000 fires from 2001 to 2020, they were able to determine a relationship between damage and speed, Williams said. During this 20-year study period, fires in the U.S. did indeed on average begin moving faster, he said. The 3% of fires with the fastest daily growth rates made up around 90% of property loss in the two decades studied. In California more than most places in the U.S., people are Zwva Trump economic aide Cohn departs after trade disagreement
FERGUSON, Mo. 鈥?Ferguson was a community on edge again Monday, a day after a protest marking the anniversary of Michael Browns death was punctuated with gunshots and police critically wounded a black 18-year-old accused of opening fire on officers.Police, protesters and people who live and work in the St. Louis suburb were bracing for what another night of demonstrations along West Florissant Avenue might bring. The thoroughfare was the site of massive protests and rioting after Brown was fatally shot last year in a confrontation with a white Ferguson officer. Of course Im worried, said Sandy Sansevere, a retired health care worker who volunteers at the retail store operated by the nonprofit group I Love Ferguson, whi stanley kubek ch was formed after Browns death to promote the community. What scares me are the guns. Several hundred people had gathered by 9 p.m. Monday, chanting and ho stanley cup lding signs. There were no apparent signs of conflict.Earlier in the day, the father of the young man who was shot called the police version of events a bunch of lies. He said two girls who were with his son told him he was unarmed and had been drawn into a dispute involving two groups of young people.St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger declared a state of emergency, which authorizes county Police Chief Jon Belmar to take control of police emergency management stanley termos in and around Ferguson.Protests spilled outside of Ferguson. Almost 60 protesters 鈥?including scholar and civil rights activist Cornel West 鈥? |
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