Fire 2
Title: Fire 2
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 3689 | Pages: 13 (approximately 235 words/page)
Fire 2
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 3689 | Pages: 13 (approximately 235 words/page)
Introduction
Fire is a topic on which most people can comment. Fire is a widespread phenomenon. Most of us have seen fires in natural vegetation, or their effects; stark, blackened vegetation or a smoke pall. Because fires such as these can have damaging economic and social effects, can spoil forestry timber, can burn down houses and farms, and can kill people and animals, there has been a lot written about wildfires. Added to this wide
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Sweden 1.6 1.5 1.6
Japan 1.5 -------- 1.5
United Kingdom 1.5 1.5 1.5
France 1.5 1.5 1.5
Australia 1.5 -------- 0.8
Germany 0.9 0.9 0.9
Switzerland 0.7 0.6 0.7
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United Nations Environment Program. [On-line]. Available:
http://www.grid.unep.ch/fires/
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http://www.piad.ab.ca