{"id":11596,"date":"2017-06-28T22:10:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T02:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11596"},"modified":"2017-06-28T22:10:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T02:10:28","slug":"lightning-caused-fires-on-the-rise-in-the-worlds-largest-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/06\/lightning-caused-fires-on-the-rise-in-the-worlds-largest-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Lightning-Caused Fires on the Rise in the World\u2019s Largest Forest&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>National Geographic<\/em> has an interesting article this week on a new NASA study documenting increases in forest fires caused by lightning strikes in the boreal forest in the northern parts of North America. The article says that &#8220;Since 1975, the number of fires ignited by lightning has increased between two and five percent, driven by an increase in volatile thunderstorm weather, according to a new NASA study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nclimate\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nclimate3329.html\">published Monday in <i>Nature Climate Change<\/i><\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is particularly important because black soot from these fires is spreading across Greenland, encouraging the melting of the ice sheet there, according to a separate article this week in the <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/energy-environment\/wp\/2017\/06\/26\/wildfires-can-cause-glaciers-to-melt-from-over-a-thousand-miles-away-scientists-find\/?utm_term=.269f5d372ce5\">here<\/a>. This could speed up the rise in sea level due to the loss of land-based ice.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1330\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1330\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/Trees_torching_-_High_Park_Wildfire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1330\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/Trees_torching_-_High_Park_Wildfire-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/Trees_torching_-_High_Park_Wildfire-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/Trees_torching_-_High_Park_Wildfire-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/Trees_torching_-_High_Park_Wildfire.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Geographic has an interesting article this week on a new NASA study documenting increases in forest fires caused by lightning strikes in the boreal forest in the northern parts of North America. The article says that &#8220;Since 1975, the number of fires ignited by lightning has increased between two and five percent, driven by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-forests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11597,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11596\/revisions\/11597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}