Tag: Wildfires

From Sparks to Infernos: Can AI Stop Wildfires in Their Tracks?

The recent tragic wildfire in the Lahaina area of Maui, Hawaii, resulted in over 100 deaths and thousands missing, becoming the deadliest U.S. wildfire in modern history. Having visited Lahaina years ago, this tragedy deeply resonated with me. It prompted reflection on whether technology could have ...

Where Wildfires Won’t Go

Athena Intelligence knows where wildfires won’t go. The conditional, geospatial intelligence system ranks future wildfire risk into Green, Red, and Yellow. So, while we don’t know exactly where a wildfire will occur … Regardless of how many fires occur, or whe...

Escape From Smokey Flames: Wild Birds Fleeing Wildfires

Smoke drift pollution and Canadian wildfires, oh what a terrible choking plight, It’s even pushing wild birds to take early and hurried new migration flights, An ancient nature’s native smoke signal that proves climate change real all along, Eagles, Hawks, and Falcons, all crying fowl...

We Now Know Who Is Responsible For A Third Of US Wildfires: Should We Hold Them Accountable?

Sometimes, it can feel like climate change is a problem for the future. Something we should prepare for and avert from happening. We forget that we have been systematically polluting and decimating this beautiful Earth for over 150 years, and climate change’s terrible teeth have already had pl...

Wildfires and Indigenous Ways to Stop Them

Wildfires are on everyone’s mind these days (and in everyone’s lungs it seems, too). Whether it’s the recent and ongoing wildfires in Canada — which are still generating severe and extreme air quality alerts all across the United States — or the all too common bushfires...