Taylor Swift had a burning problem on her hands this year — in an almost literal sense. The Grammy winner had just finished co-writing a new song with Gracie Abrams, who confirmed earlier this week that amid an all-night session involving plenty of drinks, a fire broke out in the kitchen of Swift’s New York … Read more
We call this new state the hot metastable state of peat soils. In this context, “metastable” means a long burn—the hot state lasts for a long but finite time, up to 10 years, until the peat burns out. Our other key finding is that a sudden transition from the regular cold state to the hot … Read more
Screenshot: KVUE Typically, you would think that once someone retires, their hobbies would include things like working on their project car, gardening or perhaps traveling the country in their RV. Apparently, though, one retired Austin, Texas car dealer decided none of those things were interesting enough and decided to take up arson instead. According to … Read more
“Degradation means that you still have standing forest, but you are losing some of the structure, some of the functioning,” says Armenteras Pascual. “You might even look and think it’s really a beautiful forest, but it’s not so healthy.” Being degraded also makes a forest more prone to wildfire. And once a part of the … Read more
A massive fire that ripped through a seven-storey commercial building in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka overnight has killed at least 44 people and injured 22 others, the health minister said on Friday. The fire on Thursday night that engulfed the Green Cozy Cottage building in the capital’s Baily Road area housed several restaurants and shops. The … Read more
Ten years after 32 people died in a fire that ripped through a residential complex for seniors in rural Quebec, around a quarter of all private seniors’ residences in the province are still struggling to comply with a requirement to install sprinkler systems. The January 2014 fire at the Résidence du Havre in L’Isle-Verte, Que. … Read more
