Curated Video
Brazil's President Might Miss A Meeting On Rainforest Fires He Called
President Jair Bolsonaro has faced international pressure to address the Amazon Rainforest fires.
Curated Video
BLM Planning 11K Miles Of Fuel Breaks To Control Great Basin Wildfires
The barriers are made by reducing vegetation and are intended to save forests as well as the lives of firefighters.
Curated Video
Brazil To Temporarily Ban Fires In The Amazon Rainforest
The announcement comes after 29 firms sent a letter threatening to pull investments if Brazil doesn't do something to protect the rainforest.
Bloomberg
Manitoba’s Delisle, Saskatchewan’s Balkwill on Provincial Borrowing Part I
Don Delisle, Assistant Deputy Minister, Treasury Division, Manitoba and Rodney Balkwill, Executive Director, Treasury Management Branch, Ministry of Finance, Saskatchewan, discuss provincial borrowing Shelly Hagan, Reporter, at the...
Bloomberg
Singapore Passes Law to Punish Haze Crimes
Sept. 17 -- Bloomberg's Haslinda Amin reports on Singapore passing a law that would punish those responsible for causing haze. The crimes carry a maximum fine of $1.6M. She speaks to Rishaad Salamat on On The Move. (Source: Bloomberg)
Curated Video
Indonesia - US troops help firefighting
Three specially adapted US Hercules planes arrived in Jakarta on Saturday (18/10) to help firefighting efforts in Indonesia where about 40 forest blazes were reported late on Friday (17/10). US Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy and...
Curated Video
UN paints bleak picture of earth's air quality
The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Monday that we're on track to reach record carbon dioxide levels in 2016, despite an historic climate change deal reached by World Leaders last year in Paris, which aims to limit CO2...
Curated Video
Trump offers Putin help fighting Russian wildfires
Presidient Donald Trump says he offered US help to Russian President Vladimir Putin in fighting Russia's forest fires that have engulfed thousands of square miles of territory in Siberia and the Russian Far East - an area estimated to be...
Curated Video
Trump offers Putin help fighting Russian wildfires
Presidient Donald Trump says he offered U.S. help to Russian President Vladimir Putin in fighting Russia's forest fires that have engulfed thousands of square miles of territory in Siberia and the Russian Far East - an area estimated to...
Curated Video
The Story Of Smokey The Bear
Newsy's Casey Mendoza gives us a history lesson on the familiar forest figure.
TED-Ed
Why Wildfires Are Necessary
Are wildfires necessary for some forests? Get the answer to this burning question with a short video that examines the role of fire in forest growth and health.
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Earth Videos: Bushfires in Australia
Video of wildfires raging in Australia's forests and the firefighters struggling to contain them. (Length: 1 min. 49 sec.)
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: The Goat Brigade
A discussion and video that looks at Brush Goats 4 Hire, a business in California that hires out a herd of elite goats to clear out dry brush an vegetation that might fuel a wildfire. It's a much cheaper solution than hiring people and...
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: When Nature Strikes: Wildfires
Janice Coen at the National Center for Atmospheric Research is studying how weather and fire interact in order to develop a wildfire prediction system to forecast fire behavior. [6:12]
PBS
Arizona Pbs: Wildland Fire Prevention
This video focuses on a campaign to prevent wildfires in Arizona. Helen Graham, the deputy fire staff officer for the Tonto National Forest, will discuss the "One Less Spark, One Less Fire" wildfire prevention campaign. They discuss...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Managing Forests to Manage Wildfires
Scientists discuss how to control the fires that have shaped and scarred the Southwest.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Fires and Invasive Grass Threaten American West
Cheatgrass, an invasive weed, chokes out native sagebrush - and sets the stage for massive blazes. [33 mins. 54 secs.]