With increasing prevalence of severe natural hazards and the ignition of wildfires by power lines, many power system planners are considering converting overhead lines to underground cables to mitigate risks related to these events. Systems with a la...
Record wildfires, crumbling states, [riots in France](https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1185394143/france-teen-police-shooting-protests-nahel), and even more temperature records. **Last Week in Collaps...
Critical energy infrastructure are constantly understress due to the ever increasing disruptions caused by wildfires, hurricanes, other weather related extreme events and cyber-attacks. Hence it becomes important to make critical infrastructure resil...
In 2023, the effects of climate change were so pronounced that scientists confirmed it would be the warmest year in recorded history before December even began.
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be located upwind of wildfires. Protective clothing and equipment can also help minimize exposure to smoke and ash. Firefighters are also at risk of cardiac
Electric power infrastructure has ignited several of the most destructive wildfires in recent history. Preemptive power shutoffs are an effective tool to mitigate the risk of ignitions from power lines, but at the same time can cause widespread power...
As wildfires in the United States are becoming more frequent and severe, mitigating wildfire ignition risk from power line faults is an increasingly crucial effort. Long-term ignition prevention strategies, especially converting overhead lines to und...
Devastating environmental warnings [portend hothouse earth](https://eos.org/articles/earths-climate-may-go-from-greenhouse-to-hothouse), species depletion, coral bleaching, future wildfires, and the d...
deaths and damage to property from these two fires made them likely the second and third-most destructive fires in California's history, respectively. In
Forest wildfires represent one of the catastrophic events that, over the last decades, caused huge environmental and humanitarian damages. In addition to a significant amount of carbon dioxide emission, they are a source of risk to society in both sh...
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Dangerous, critical fire weather conditions persist Wednesday after more than a dozen new wildfires torched tens of thousands of acres and forced evacuations in the Plains amid bone-dry conditions and powerful winds on Tuesday.
Learn more about Google Research’s FireSat project, built to detect small wildfires.