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Environmental: Wildfires
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New fire shelter prototypes could buy time for wildfire firefighters - New Fire Shelter Prototypes Could Buy Time for Wildfire Firefighters      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Temperatures inside new wildfire shelter prototypes remained within survival limits for longer, and...

Environmental: Wildfires
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When cyclones and fires collide... - When Cyclones and Fires Collide: The Devastating Impact on Our Environment      (via sciencedaily.com) 

As strong winds and torrential rains inundate Australia's south-eastern coast, new research suggests...

Chemistry: Organic Chemistry Engineering: Nanotechnology
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Nanoscale material offers new way to control fire      (via sciencedaily.com) 

High-temperature flames are used to create a wide variety of materials -- but once you start a fire, ...

Geoscience: Environmental Issues
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Weeks later, potentially harmful chemicals lingered in homes affected by Marshall Fire      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

In the wake of Colorado's devastating Marshall Fire, a team of chemists and engineers undertook a fi ...

Chemistry: General Chemistry: Inorganic Chemistry Energy: Batteries
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Researchers unveil fire-inhibiting nonflammable gel polymer electrolyte for lithium-ion batteries      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

A research team  has succeeded in developing a non-flammable gel polymer electrolyte (GPE) that is s...

Biology: Biochemistry Biology: General Chemistry: Biochemistry Chemistry: Inorganic Chemistry
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What fire ants can teach us about making better, self-healing materials      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Fire ants form rafts to survive flooding, but how do those bonds work? And what can we learn from th ...

Geoscience: Earth Science Geoscience: Geology Geoscience: Oceanography Geoscience: Volcanoes
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Recent volcanic 'fires' in Iceland triggered by storage and melting in crust      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Scientists have detected geochemical signatures of magma pooling and melting beneath the subsurface...

Chemistry: General Chemistry: Inorganic Chemistry Energy: Alternative Fuels Energy: Fossil Fuels Offbeat: General
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Scientists unveil fire-safe fuel      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Chemical engineers have designed a fuel that ignites only with the application of electric current....

Environmental: Ecosystems Environmental: General Environmental: Wildfires Geoscience: Environmental Issues
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Low-intensity fires reduce wildfire risk by 60%      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

High-intensity, often catastrophic, wildfires have become increasingly frequent across the Western U...

Ecology: General Ecology: Research Environmental: Wildfires
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Understanding the many different ways animals are evolving in response to fire could help conservation efforts      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

In our modern era of larger, more destructive, and longer-lasting fires -- called the Pyrocene -- pl ...

Environmental: Wildfires
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What's driving re-burns across California and the West? - What's Driving Re-burns Across California and the West?      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Seasonal temperature, moisture loss from plants and wind speed are what primarily drive fires that s ...

Environmental: Ecosystems
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Amazonia racing toward tipping point, fueled by unregulated fires - Amazonia Racing Toward Tipping Point, Fueled by Unregulated Fires      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Amazonia is closer to a catastrophic ecological tipping point than any time in the last 100,000 year...