Wood fires and breathing problems
The smoke from wood fires can affect air quality and may affect people's health. Wood smoke is generated from wood heaters, incinerators, open air burning and bushfires. People most affected by wood smoke include those with heart or breathing ... [... more]
Better Health |
Tenryuji Temple Gardens, Japan
Tenryuji is one of the major temples of the Rinzai school of Zen. It was built in the 1300s by shogun Ashikaga Takauji to appease the spirit of Emperor Godaigo. Through the centuries it was destroyed by fires and warfare and rebuilt on a number ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Fire in the Australian Landscape
Over the last 15 million years, Australia has become increasingly drier. As a result, fires have become a more frequent and important part of Australia's natural landscape. Over the last 15 million years, Australia has become increasingly drier. ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Traci Lords
Traci Elizabeth Lords has starred in dozens of films and television shows, including Cry-Baby, Stephen King's The Tommyknockers, Melrose Place, and First Wave. Her groundbreaking album 1,000 Fires was a critical and dance club hit. She lives in ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Michael Stanley
Michael Stanley is the writing team of Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip. The pair has had many adventures together, including tracking lions at night, fighting bush fires on the Savuti plains in northern Botswana, surviving a charging elephant, ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Grass Trees
It is hard to imagine a plant more Australian than the Grass Tree (Xanthorrhoea preissii). They have evolved over many years to be incredibly hardy, they can handle droughts and extreme temperatures from bush fires that burn the trunk black. ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Takashi Matsuoka
In the year 1311, in the highest tower of Cloud of Sparrows Castle, a beautiful woman sits by the window, watching as enemies gather below and fires spread through the night. As she calmly awaits her fate, she begins to write, carefully setting ... [... more]
Random House |
Jack Gilbert
Jack Gilbert was born in Pittsburgh. He is the author of The Great Fires: Poems 1982-1992; Monolithos, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Views of Jeopardy, the 1962 winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize. He has also published a ... [... more]
Random House |
HortNews - Frost-Fighter Fires Up For Farm Expo
A hot solution for cold and frosty mornings on orchards will go on display at the innovations site at the national Fieldays at Mystery Creek this month. TAURANGA 7/06/2004 - A hot solution for cold and frosty mornings on orchards will go on ... [... more]
HortNET New Zealand |
Charles Sheffield
It's 2026, and catastrophe has struck from an unexpected source. The Alpha Centauri supernova has risen like a second sun, rushing Earth toward its last summer. Floods, fires, starvation, and disease paralyze the planet. In a blue aurora flash of ... [... more]
Random House |
Mike Lawson
From a bluff overlooking Georgia's untamed Chattooga River, an assassin fires three shots. The President of the United States is wounded; his best friend and a Secret Service agent are killed. Two days later, a man in Landover... From a bluff ... [... more]
Random House |
David Zindell
A galactic search for the truth fires this magnificent epic of war and discovery on both a human and cosmic scale.The Wild: a chaotic place where ten elite lightship pilots dared to venture. A place where one of those pilots, Danlo wi Soli ... [... more]
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