Wildfire

A Risk-Aware UAV-Edge Service Framework for Wildfire Monitoring and Emergency Response

• Integrated UAV‑edge framework co‑optimizes route, fleet size, and edge service for wildfire monitoring. • Fire‑history‑weighted clustering prioritizes high‑risk zones, improving

Map suggests up to 30% of western bird hotspots face severe wildfire risk

• Up to 30% of bird diversity hotspots, places where large numbers of different bird species occur, in the western United States face threats from high-severity wildfires in the fu

Rising simultaneous wildfire risk compromises international firefighting efforts

• The most high-risk conditions for fires are increasingly happening across countries at the same time, making resulting wildfires even more challenging to tackle, new research rev

Local photographer captures physics history in the Black Hills

• Dale Carter, Black Hills photographer, captured 2002 Grizzly Gulch wildfire from above, front-page coverage. • He photographed scientists at Lead’s 2001 conference, documenting g