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UNSW Canberra pyrometric laboratory sets fire to protective clothing, car parts, building materials in bid to make them safer
It's not much bigger than a standard oven, but the burner box in this new pyrometric laboratory in Canberra can reach temperatures of 800 degrees Celsius.
Pollution at Australia’s largest Antarctic research station exceeded guidelines for almost 20 years
Levels of contaminants such as arsenic and lead at Casey eclipsed international quality guidelines between 1997 and 2015, study finds.
newrepublic.com
The risk of watching California burn on TV
To watch the fires, even from a safe remove, is to watch the blazing spectacle of our hubris march forward under a rippling battle flag.
California's rich and desperate homeowners are buying an unproven wildfire cure
As climate change exacerbates fire risk, desperate homeowners turn to unproven fixes to protect their property.
Climate change, weather anomalies are making wildfires harder to control
Freaky weather conditions unleashed by climate change and “never seen before” in Utah’s highlands are making wildfires more difficult and dangerous to control because fire managers’ experience is becoming increasingly irrelevant for predicting the behavior of blazes.
cen.acs.org
Monitoring water quality after wildfires
Researchers are just starting to study how blazes like California's devastating Camp Fire may contaminate watersheds.
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