Effects of extreme weather
WILD FIRES
From the above issue we see various pictures of extreme weather conditions and how they affect both humans, plants and animals.
Wild fire is an unctrollable fire over large area. They affect both human beings,plants and animals in various ways. Human beings get displaced loosing their homes. Vegetation is also destroyed which is the natural habitat for animals. In extreme cases wildfire leads to death.
Ash and smoke that come from the fires affect people when inhaled causing respirstory problems which may damage the lungs and throat.
Incomes and jobs are lost for workers in the agricultural field whose field crops and animals were destroyed by the wildfire. When people are out of work the economy suffers which makes it difficult to recover.
Comments (28)
24 Apr 2020
This is a very interesting topic! Do you have an example of where a wildfire has taken place before?
I learnt that in United States, there are typically worse wildfires every year. And over 9 million acres of land have been destroyed due to life threatening wildfires.
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I learnt that there was a wildfire in Ghana around 1983 which leads to destruction of many acres of land in farming areas which brought so much hunger n lost of jobs in the country.
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24 Apr 2020
Wild fires are probably the worst especially the one in Australia and it is terrible about people getting killed and sadly animals.
It is very sad for both humans and animals! What makes you say that wild fires are probably the worst?
Wildfires is both to human and animals because it brings about death and destruction on both.
Because wild fires burn down anything in their ways example homes and money.
What impact do you think wild fires will have on people's livelihoods if they are burning people's homes, outstanding_turkey?
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24 Apr 2020
Some other effects of wildfires I know is that the soil loses water which causes the land to become very arid and this leads to the inability of farmers to grow crops
24 Apr 2020
1. Wildfire- Takes away homes , wildfire as well as vegetetion . Which causes the wildlife became homeless wild animals lose their life eg birds ,trees and plants are gone as well with cause drouht to human being and animals To & ask oxygen .
2.when a wildfire hits the soil it becomes too hot and all of those nutrients are gone .
- Some human lives around the forest are also lost in wildfire .
- Ash and smoke produced by wildlife can cause serious health problems to humans how suffer from ailergies and other medical problems smoke which is cabonmonoxide can cause lungs and the throat.
- Incomes and jobs are lost for workers in the agricultural fied whose field crops & animals were destroyed by the wildfire.
24 Apr 2020
It has taken place in Australia l can't explain how tough it was for those people it really caused a lot of disaster
It was the worst wild fire that had ever occured
25 Apr 2020
There was a huge wildfire in the Amazon rainforest about half a year ago.It burned for a few months and destroyed 906,000 hectares of land.
25 Apr 2020
Extreme fire outbreak is claiming a lot of lives away, as some the farmers in the bush are
often burn to ashes. properties are lost as a result of fire outbreak. extinction of
rare animals due to fire outbreak ,this has made a lot of bush animals burnt
resulting to famine because the animals serves as food to us.
25 Apr 2020
The extreme weather effects are very many some of them are job loss,life loss,houses are being destroyed,no income for workers etc .
The lack of income for workers is indeed very serious! Can you think of ways of supporting workers that lose their jobs and livelihood? Could the government create more jobs by developing renewable energy industry?
25 Apr 2020
Wildfires are the worst because,
It destroys forest's which is actually the home for wild animals,and it also kill's the animals and affects the environment.
26 Apr 2020
extreme weather causes temperature to rise up to 46 degrees celsius in the northern parts of Ghana .Rise in temperatures bring about a sickness called cerebrospinal meningitis [CSM] with over 409 reported cases in Ghana .this disease has claimed over 40 lives in five northern regions in Ghana with Upper West region alone recording over 300 cases
We're very sorry to hear this. Can you tell us where you found your evidence?
27 Apr 2020
There was once a wildfire in Ghana which led to lost of lives because of hunger due to the destruction of farm crops.
27 Apr 2020
I agree with you, impartial knowledge.
27 Apr 2020
You said that wildfires can effect humans which is true but 85% of global fires are caused by humans. Human caused fires are results of campfires left unattended, light cigars or cigarettes being dropped, burning debris and an arson caused fire. The worst fire caused by humans was the Heilongjiang fire in China, 1987. It covered millions of acres and left 33,000 people homeless. The final 15% of wildfires are caused by lightning or a heatwave. The worst fire in history was the Black Friday Fire in Australia, 1939. Over 5 million acres of land was burned down and 71 local citizens died. The fire was caused naturally by a long lasting drought and a heatwave.
Thank you for reading,
radical_koala😊
Always tell us where you find information, radical_koala, so we can check it!
I didn't get my information from a specific site I used many but I got the information about the Heilongjiang fire from https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/07/partner-content-a-world-on-fire/
13 May 2020
We need to now the cause of this wildfires, then we will know the solutions
Causes
Nearly 85 percent* of wildland fires in the United States are caused by humans. Human-caused fires result from campfires left unattended, the burning of debris, equipment use and malfunctions, negligently discarded cigarettes, and intentional acts of arson. Lightning is one of the two natural causes of fires.
Where did you find your information? Always post a link so people can check it!
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