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Earth’s ‘vital signs’ worse than at any time in human history, scientists warn

  2023-10-24 in The Guardian

Life on planet is in peril, say climate experts, as they call for a rapid and just transition to a sustainable future

  Tagged under: Wildlife | Wildfires | Science


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Greek officials advise staying in with windows shut due to fires near Athens

  2024-08-11 in The Guardian

Whole neighbourhoods are being evacuated from nearby the capital as firefighters mount huge effort to put out blazes

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Greece


Offsets on fire

  2024-08-08 (or before) in Politico

Wildfires are once again threatening California’s climate goals.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Trees | Carbon Offsetting | California


"Potentially deadly" heat wave grips East Coast, Central U.S. as wildfires erupt in West

  2024-07-15 by in Axios

Dozens more daily records could fall as some cities experience their hottest summers on record.

  Tagged under: Global Warming | Wildfires | Extreme Heat | USA


California wildfires have already burned 90,000 acres, and summer is just beginning

  2024-06-22 in Los Angeles Times

California wildfires burned almost 90,000 acres already this year, an amount more than five times the average of pre-summer blazes from the last few years.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | California


Rampant Wildfires Are Threatening a Collapse of the Amazon Rainforest

  2024-03-09 in WIRED Magazine

Rainforests in South America are burning this year faster than ever before, setting the course for a collapse of the Amazon in the coming decades.

  Tagged under: Collapse | Amazon Rainforest | Wildfires


Wildfire Threat to Texas Nuclear Weapons Facility Highlights Intersecting Risks

  2024-03-07 in blog.ucsusa.org

Our new map shows where nuclear weapons facilities overlap with areas with a history of wildfires.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Texas | Nuclear Power


Megafires are here to stay — and blaming only climate change won’t help

  2024-03-05 in Nature

It’s not just global warming that’s driving the growth in destructive wildfires. Better land management is the first step to mitigating the risks. It’s not just global warming that’s driving the growth in destructive wildfires. Better land management is the first step to mitigating the risks.

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Smokehouse Creek Fire - Wikipedia

  2024-03-04 (or before) in Wikipedia

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Texas


Opinion | The Fires Sweeping Across Texas Offer a Terrifying Warning

  2024-03-02 in The New York Times

We’re entering clima incognita.

  Tagged under: Texas | Wildfires


A visual guide to the Texas wildfire

  2024-03-01 in The Guardian

What has been the impact of the Smokehouse Creek fire in the Texas Panhandle, and what could happen now?

  Tagged under: Texas | Wildfires


Wildfire grows into one of largest in Texas history as flames menace multiple small towns

  2024-02-29 in The Hill

CANADIAN, Texas (AP) — A cluster of wildfires scorched the Texas Panhandle on Wednesday, including a blaze that grew into one of the largest in state history, as flames moved with alarming speed an…

  Tagged under: Texas | Wildfires


Wildfire grows into one of largest in Texas history as flames menace multiple small towns

  2024-02-27 in Associated Press News

Fast-moving wildfire in the Texas Panhandle grows to nearly 800 square miles, second-largest in state's history.

  Tagged under: Texas | Wildfires


Texas wildfires continue growing as firefighters struggle to contain massive Panhandle blazes

  2024-02-27 by in Texas Tribune

The five fires have burned more than a million acres — more than double the landmass of Houston — as residents have fled or sheltered in place.

  Tagged under: Texas | Wildfires


Forest fires in Chile cause multiple deaths and widespread destruction

  2024-02-03 in The Guardian

At least 46 people reported dead as dozens of fires sweep across central and southern regions, with Valparaíso worst affected

  Tagged under: South America | Wildfires | Trees


Colombia declares a disaster due to wildfires as it calls for international help | CNN

  2024-01-25 by in CNN International

The fires are thought to be the result of hot and dry conditions linked to the El Niño weather phenomenon.

  Tagged under: El Niño | Wildfires


Extreme fire weather in Chile driven by climate change and El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) - Scientific Reports

  2024-01-23 in Nature

A string of fierce fires broke out in Chile in the austral summer 2023, just six years after the record-breaking 2017 fire season. Favored by extreme weather conditions, fire activity has dramatically risen in recent years in this Andean country. A total of 1.7 million ha. burned during the last decade, tripling figures of the prior decade. Six of the seven most destructive fire seasons on record occurred since 2014. Here, we analyze the progression during the last two decades of the weather conditions associated with increased fire risk in Central Chile (30°–39° S). Fire weather conditions (including high temperat...

  Tagged under: Drought | Oceans | Chile | El Niño | Heatwaves | Wildfires


Climate change: London is underprepared for extreme weather

  2024-01-17 in The BBC

The capital is at risk from rising sea levels, flooding, heat, drought and wildfires, a report says.

  Tagged under: Drought | Sea Level | Wildfires


Canadian man who claimed wildfires were a federal conspiracy admits arson

  2024-01-16 in The Guardian

The country saw record-breaking blazes during the summer and Brian Paré pleaded guilty to lighting more than a dozen fires

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Climate change threatens global forest carbon sequestration, study finds

  2024-01-15 in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and Technology

Climate change is reshaping forests differently across the United States, according to a new analysis of U.S. Forest Service data. With rising temperatures, escalating droughts, wildfires, and disease outbreaks taking a toll on trees, researchers warn that forests across the American West are bearing the brunt of the consequences.

  Tagged under: Drought | Wildfires | Trees


World will look back at 2023 as year humanity exposed its inability to tackle climate crisis, scientists say

  2023-12-29 in The Guardian

Disastrous events included flash flooding in Africa and wildfires in Europe and North America

  Tagged under: COP28 | Wildfires | Africa


‘Climate collapse in real time’: UN head António Guterres urges Cop28 to act

  2023-11-30 in The Guardian

World Meteorological Organization says 2023 will be hottest year on record, leaving ‘trail of devastation and despair’

  Tagged under: COP28 | Collapse | Wildfires


Opinion | More lightning, more wildfires and a warmer world. Welcome to the ‘doom loop’ | South China Morning Post

  2023-11-17 in South China Morning Post

Climate-induced lightning is becoming more frequent and powerful, triggering more wildfires, particularly in Siberia, Canada and Alaska, and releasing the carbon locked in permafrost.

  Tagged under: COP28 | Permafrost | Wildfires | Alaska | Russia


Britons’ holidays abroad ‘could hit record’ in 2024 despite this year’s woes

  2023-10-31 in The Guardian

Inflation, wildfires and air traffic control chaos have not put people off travelling, Abta finds

  Tagged under: Air Travel | Wildfires


Earth’s ‘vital signs’ worse than at any time in human history, scientists warn

  2023-10-24 in The Guardian

Life on planet is in peril, say climate experts, as they call for a rapid and just transition to a sustainable future

  Tagged under: Wildlife | Wildfires | Science


‘We Are Afraid’: Scientists Issue New Warning As World Enters ‘Uncharted Climate Territory’

  2023-10-24 by in Forbes

Scientists today warned that human activity is pushing Earth into a situation "no one has ever witnessed firsthand in the history of humanity."

  Tagged under: Fossil Fuels | Wildfires


As US wildfires pollute the skies, a loophole is obscuring the impact. Can it be fixed?

  2023-10-18 in The Guardian

Experts agree it’s time to change the Clean Air Act’s exceptional events rule – but offer different solutions.

  Tagged under: Health | Wildfires


Drought turns Amazonian capital into climate dystopia

  2023-10-18 in The Guardian

Forest fires leave Manaus with second worst air quality in the world, while low river levels cut off communities

  Tagged under: Deforestation | Amazon Rainforest | Drought | Forest Fires | Rivers | El Niño | South America | Brazil | Wildfires | Trees


Wildfires rage in Argentina’s Cordoba province amid heatwave | In Pictures News | Al Jazeera

  2023-10-11 in Al Jazeera

Authorities evacuate people as massive flames surround populated areas in Cordoba province.

  Tagged under: Argentina | Wildfires


Weather tracker: South Africa hit by storms and unseasonably low temperatures

  2023-09-25 in The Guardian

Temperatures 10-15C below norm forecast in South Africa while risk of wildfires rises in Australia after unusual spring heatwaves

  Tagged under: South Africa | Africa | Heatwaves | Wildfires


Climate action must respond to extreme weather driving health crisis, says WHO

  2023-09-19 in The Guardian

Melting ice caps and rising sea levels are urgent but people care more about the floods, wildfires and droughts that are here now, New York summit hears

  Tagged under: COP28 | Libya | Drought | Africa | Ice Melting | Sea Level | Health | Middle East | Wildfires


'Big Oil has been lying to us': Califonia sues oil giants over climate change damages

  2023-09-16 in France 24

The US state of California sued five of the world's largest oil companies on Friday, alleging the firms caused billions of dollars in damages and misled the public by minimizing the risks from fossil…

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | California | Wildfires


‘People feel unprotected’: Greeks lose faith in state after Storm Daniel and a summer of wildfires

  2023-09-16 in The Guardian

Before the catastrophe in Libya, the cyclone brought devastation to Thessaly – and there are fears the climate crisis will bring more

  Tagged under: Libya | Wildfires | Greece


As wildfires spread, the rich buy protection - Tortoise

  2023-09-11 in Tortoise Media

Long stories short Luis Rubiales resigned as president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation. Nato announced plans for its biggest military exercise since the Cold War. Novak Djokovic won a record-equalling 24th grand slam at the US Open. Firefighters for hire During California‚Äôs 2021 Caldor Wildfire, the president of the state‚Äôs firefighter union got a …

  Tagged under: California | Wildfires


This summer broke the world record for the highest temperature officially recorded

  2023-09-06 in Associated Press News

The UN weather agency says Earth endured its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured.

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Wildfires


The extreme summer weather that scorched and soaked the world - BBC News

  2023-09-02 (or before) in The BBC

A look back at the heatwaves, wildfires, tropical storms and other major weather events around the world during the summer of 2023 and how they may relate to climate change due to global warming.

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Heatwaves | Wildfires


How Portugal eucalyptus plantation play a role on wildfires

  2023-08-31 by in Climate Home News

Paper packages are championed as an alternative to plastic, but eucalyptus plantations are fuelling disaster in Portugal.

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Greece wildfire declared largest ever recorded in EU

  2023-08-29 in The Guardian

Eleven planes and helicopter from bloc sent to tackle fire that has burned more than 300 sq miles of land

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Greece


Remarks by Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions Graham Steele at Event Hosted by the Brookings Institution's Assessing Insurance Regulation and Supervision of Climate-Related Financial Risk

  2023-08-29 (or before) in home.treasury.gov

As Prepared for Delivery Introduction Thank you, Carlos.  It is my pleasure to be with you all today, both those in the room and watching virtually. As the Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions, my portfolio includes developing the Department’s policy views on banks, credit unions, consumer protection, access to capital, and financial sector cybersecurity matters.  My remarks will focus on the work that Treasury, through the Federal Insurance office (FIO), is doing to understand and help address the financial risks that our changing climate poses in the insurance sector. Work on climate-related financial...

  Tagged under: Drought | Finance | Climate Change | Housing | Insurance | Litigation | Economic Growth | California | Climate Change Impacts | Wildfires | Florida | Climate Change Mitigation | Capitalism


‘Off-the-charts records’: has humanity finally broken the climate?

  2023-08-28 in The Guardian

Extreme weather is ‘smacking us in the face’ with worse to come, but a ‘tiny window’ of hope remains, say leading climate scientists

  Tagged under: Oceans | Fossil Fuels | Wildfires


Climate activists target jets, yachts and golf in a string of global protests against luxury

  2023-08-28 (or before) in ABC News

Climate activism has intensified in the past few years as the planet warms to dangerous levels, igniting more extreme heat, floods, storms and wildfires around the world

  Tagged under: Activism | Wildfires


Dozens of wildfires burn in Louisiana amid scorching heat: "This is unprecedented" - CBS News

  2023-08-27 (or before) in CBS News

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  Tagged under: Louisiana | Wildfires


How 19th-century pineapple plantations turned Maui into a tinderbox

  2023-08-27 in The Guardian

Land privatization and water depletion set the stage for the Lahaina fire 150 years ago. Now, land companies may benefit even more

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Rethinking tactics to fight wildfires and save lives – DW – 08/25/2023

  2023-08-26 (or before) in Deutsche Welle

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Louisiana residents told to ‘get out now’ in face of sweeping wildfire

  2023-08-25 in The Guardian

Nearly 1,000 people in Merryville, in Beauregard parish close to Texas border, ordered to evacuate as Tiger Island fire burns nearby

  Tagged under: Louisiana | Texas | Wildfires


As Canada’s boreal forests burn again and again, they won’t grow back the same way - The Globe and Mail

  2023-08-25 in The Globe and Mail: Canadian, World, Politics and Business News & Analysis

Recurring wildfires are giving young coniferous forests too little time to mature, and leafy trees, shrubs and grasslands are taking hold in new, unfamiliar ecosystems

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Trees | Grasslands


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  2023-08-24 (or before) in Los Angeles Times

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Wildfires


Barcelona gives hats to homeless people as heatwave sweeps southern Europe

  2023-08-24 in The Guardian

Greek firefighters continue to battle wildfires and 17 areas of southern France remain on red alert

  Tagged under: Spain | Wildfires | Greece


Volcanoes and wildfires offset 20% of global heating over eight years

  2023-08-23 in The Guardian

Events that inject smoke and gas into high atmosphere help to cool planet but are no solution to climate crisis, says study

  Tagged under: Wildfires


On Maui, returning home means confronting toxic risks

  2023-08-22 by in Grist.org: Climate. Justice. Solutions.

A growing body of research has demonstrated that wildfires leave behind a trail of toxic chemicals that can take years to eliminate.

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Climate change doubled chance of weather conditions that led to record Quebec fires, researchers say

  2023-08-22 in Associated Press News

A new analysis finds that climate change more than doubled the chances of the hot, dry weather that helped fuel the unprecedented wildfire season in eastern Canada.

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Wildfires


There are complex reasons for our dire wildfires, but scientists say climate change plays key role | CBC News

  2023-08-21 (or before) in CBC.ca - Canada's Public Broadcaster

"It's not one thing that's causing these really bad fire seasons," said Jen Baron, a PhD candidate at UBC's department of forest and conservation sciences. "At a broad scale, it's really the interaction between the climate and the fuels that are driving these changes."

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Wildfires | Trees


Our forests have reached a tipping point

  2023-08-21 by in Canada's National Observer

Unrelenting logging and fossil fuel burning have flipped one of the planet's largest forests from a critical CO2 sink into a surging CO2 source. This year's climate-fuelled wildfires are the latest acceleration in a multi-decade trend, writes Barry Saxifrage.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Trees | Tipping Points


‘One climate disaster after another’: North America’s long hot summer | Financial Times

  2023-08-21 (or before) in Financial Times

From Hawaii to Canada, searing heat and deadly wildfires are raising the alarm about global warming

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Canada wildfires: At least 30,000 households in British Columbia told to evacuate - BBC News

  2023-08-20 (or before) in The BBC

Officials restrict travel to Kelowna, a lakeside city of 132,000 people where smoke hangs on the water.

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Canada wildfires: Residents scramble to flee fires in Kelowna and Yellowknife - BBC News

  2023-08-20 (or before) in The BBC

A fast-moving fire in Kelowna, British Columbia forces escaping locals to jump into the local lake.

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Canada wildfires: British Columbia declares emergency as 15,000 homes told to evacuate - BBC News

  2023-08-19 (or before) in The BBC

About 15,000 households are told to evacuate in British Columbia, with an emergency declared.

  Tagged under: Wildfires


The numbers behind Canada’s worst wildfires season - BBC News

  2023-08-19 (or before) in The BBC

This has been the worst wildfire season in Canada's history, as shown in these maps and charts.

  Tagged under: Wildfires


How climate scientists feel about seeing their dire predictions come true

  2023-08-18 in Los Angeles Times

Wildfires in Canada and Hawaii. Hurricane Hilary set to strike California. Scientists have warned about worse storms and more frequent fires for years.

  Tagged under: Predictions | California | Wildfires


Maui wildfires expose rift over island’s tourism: ‘We’re more vulnerable than anyone admits’

  2023-08-17 in The Guardian

The industry generates 80% of Maui county’s economic activity – but it risks devastating the island’s natural resources

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Fossil fuel firms move to dismiss climate lawsuit in Hawaii as Maui faces wildfires

  2023-08-17 in The Guardian

In 2020, Honolulu officials had sued eight oil and gas companies over the steep costs of abating damages from extreme weather

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Why was there no water to fight the fire in Maui? | Naomi Klein and Kapuaʻala Sproat

  2023-08-17 in The Guardian

Big corporations, golf courses and hotels have been taking water from locals for years. Now the fire may result in even more devastating water theft

  Tagged under: Capitalism | Wildfires


Republican LIE Causes BIG Problems…This Expert Can STOP Them | The Weekend Show

  2023-08-16 (or before) in YouTube

Umair Haque joins Anthony Davis for an honest discussion about the effects of the climate crisis on the world economy after the devastating wildfire in Maui....

  Tagged under: US Politics | Wildfires


Maui is suing Big Oil

  2023-08-15 (or before) by in exxonknews.org

The county is seeking to recover the costs of climate-fueled disasters Big Oil knowingly caused — including increasingly destructive wildfires.

  Tagged under: Exxon | Wildfires


Watch: Raging fires edge toward Italian airport runways

  2023-08-15 (or before) in The BBC

Palermo’s airport was shut down overnight as wildfires burned around its perimeter.

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Even in Greek towns razed by wildfires, people don’t blame the climate crisis. That must change | Christy Lefteri

  2023-08-14 in The Guardian

Many see climate breakdown as a problem of the future, but it’s here now. To move forward, we must understand our part in it, says author Christy Lefteri

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Wildfires | Greece


'Wake-up call': How 'vicious' Mediterranean weather events threaten a quarter of UK food imports

  2023-08-14 in Business Green

Region 'ravaged' by heatwaves, wildfires and drought this summer provided just over £16bn worth of UK food imports last year, prompting growing concerns for food security

  Tagged under: Drought | Heatwaves | Wildfires


Hawaii wildfires burn historic town of Lahaina to the ground - BBC News

  2023-08-10 (or before) in The BBC

Six people are dead and thousands are displaced as fires rage on Maui and the Big Island.

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Wildfires on Hawaii's Maui island kill at least 6 as blazes force people to flee - CBS News

  2023-08-10 (or before) in CBS News

The wind-whipped wildfires even led some to jump into a harbor and the Coast Guard said it rescued 14.

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Why did the Maui fire spread so fast? Drought, nonnative species and climate change among possible reasons | CNN

  2023-08-09 by in CNN

Drought conditions are becoming more extreme and common in Hawaii and other Pacific islands.

  Tagged under: Drought | Climate Change | Health | Wildfires | Finance


Firefighters battle blaze raging for fourth day in southern Portugal

  2023-08-08 in The Guardian

Wildfire that erupted in Odemira on Saturday has scorched thousands of hectares and forced evacuation of 1,400 people

  Tagged under: Wildfires


In pictures: How climate change is causing loss and damage around the world by UNDP Climate on Exposure

  2023-08-06 (or before) in undp-climate.exposure.co

Here are the many faces of loss and damage caused by climate change around the world –and what it can look like for those on the frontlines.

  Tagged under: Drought | Climate Change | Chile | Wildfires | Madagascar | Biodiversity Loss | India


‘It was hell but the owner said, you have to work’: dying from heat in Greece

  2023-08-04 in The Guardian

Greece relies on its tourism industry. But intense heatwaves, which have led to wildfires across the country, are making life a misery for thousands of staff who have to work outside – and killing some of them

  Tagged under: Health | Heatwaves | Wildfires | Greece


Erratic winds pose fresh threat to firefighters as rain helps with Mojave desert fire

  2023-08-01 in The Guardian

A brief downpour helped crews on the ground, but experts warn they could face unstable wind conditions that could blow fire back at them

  Tagged under: California | Wildfires


Italy storms: North hit by hail and rain as Sicily burns - BBC News

  2023-07-25 (or before) in BBC

Torrential rain and hailstorms hit northern regions while wildfires "encircle" Sicily's Palermo.

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Storms and wildfires kill seven in Italy as extreme weather continues

  2023-07-25 in The Guardian

Three people killed in Sicily fires and four in northern storms as hundreds forced to flee homes

  Tagged under: Wildfires


What frightens me about the climate crisis is we don’t know how bad things really are | Roger Harrabin

  2023-07-25 in The Guardian

As the barrage of bad news from places like Greece continues, all we can be certain of is there are many surprises lying ahead, says analyst Roger Harrabin

  Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change | Wildfires | Greece


‘No one wants to be right about this’: climate scientists’ horror and exasperation as global predictions play out

  2023-07-24 in The Guardian

As the northern hemisphere burns, experts feel deep sadness – and resentment – while dreading what lies ahead this Australian summer

  Tagged under: Predictions | Fossil Fuels | El Niño | Heatwaves | Wildfires


European heatwave - latest updates as red alerts and record temperatures continue | The Independent

  2023-07-13 (or before) in The Independent

Europe heatwave 2023

  Tagged under: Spain | Wildfires


Canada sees farthest north 100-degree temperature amid burning wildfires - The Washington Post

  2023-07-10 in The Washington Post

The 100-degree reading in Norman Wells in the Northwest Territories Saturday was the highest on record so far north in the Western Hemisphere.

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Californian winemakers are learning firefighting techniques - BBC News

  2023-07-06 (or before) in The BBC

Winemakers in the Napa Valley are having to battle wildfires affecting vineyards and wineries.

  Tagged under: California | Wildfires


As the wildfires burn politicians fan the flames of climate delay

  2023-07-05 in Inside track - Green Alliance's blog on environmental policy and politics

What’s going on? As climate breakdown grows more serious, British politics and political commentary are becoming more trivial. The UK has had by far its hottest June on record. Spring’s wild fires …

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Weekly Climate News Headlines

  2023-07-03 (or before) in YouTube

Weekly climate news headlines from around the world. #bangladesh #India #USA #Canada #wildfires #mexico #pakistan #heatwaves #Spain #Romania #Chile

  Tagged under: Spain | Wildfires | Flooding | Canada | India | Chile | Mexico | Heatwaves


Canada Offers Lesson in the Economic Toll of Climate Change

  2023-07-03 in The New York Times

  Tagged under: Economics | Climate Change | Wildfires


Over 200 million under extreme weather alerts as heat and smoke pummel U.S.

  2023-06-29 in Axios

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Wildfire Smoke: Smoke From Canada Fires Stretches From Midwest to East Coast

  2023-06-29 in The New York Times

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Texas heatwave blamed for 13 deaths as scorching temperatures and smoke spread across US – as it happened

  2023-06-28 in The Guardian

Detroit extends air quality alert through Thursday while evacuation orders in effect in Arizona as crews fight Diamond fire

  Tagged under: Texas | Wildfires


Canada wildfire season is now the worst on record - BBC News

  2023-06-28 (or before) in BBC

The wildfires have also produced record levels of carbon emissions, with the smoke reaching Europe.

  Tagged under: Sea Level | Wildfires


Heatwave in south and wildfire smoke in north buffet US from both sides

  2023-06-28 in The Guardian

More than 80m Americans under air quality alerts while temperatures hit triple digits in south and south-west

  Tagged under: Wildfires


This is now Canada’s worst fire season in modern history as smoke fills skies - The Washington Post

  2023-06-26 in The Washington Post

In the seven days ending Sunday, more than 3.5 million acres had burned. That's nearly 70 percent of an average full fire season in the country.

  Tagged under: Canada | Wildfires


Canada is on fire, and big oil is the arsonist | Tzeporah Berman

  2023-06-20 in The Guardian

Governments need to represent us, not fossil-fuel profiteers. We need plans to phase out fossil fuel production and emissions

  Tagged under: Wildfires


How bad is wildfire smoke for your health? Here’s my view as a toxicologist | Christopher T Migliaccio

  2023-06-19 in The Guardian

Last week New York and Detroit were listed among the five most polluted cities in the world because of smoke from Canada. What does that mean?

  Tagged under: Health | Wildfires


US midwest braces for smoky skies as Canadian wildfires rage on

  2023-06-15 in The Guardian

Air quality alerts issued in Minnesota and Wisconsin with winds expected to blow airborne pollution from Ontario blazes south

  Tagged under: Wildfires


US east coast cities warned to draft air quality plans similar to those in the west

  2023-06-15 in The Guardian

Current standards do not take into account particulates given off by blazes such as seen lately in Canada that affected the east coast

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Exhausted crews battle Canadian wildfires as experts issue climate warning

  2023-06-10 in The Guardian

Global heating and human changes to the landscape have invited more destructive fires, making fire season worse

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Wildfires


Air quality improves in New York City, Tri-State after smoke from Canada wildfires

  2023-06-09 in abc7ny.com

New York City is expected to advise organizers of the many outdoor events planned this weekend on whether they can go forward.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Air Quality


Rise in extreme wildfires linked directly to emissions from oil companies in new study | CBC News

  2023-06-09 (or before) in CBC.ca - Canada's Public Broadcaster

As fires blaze in Alberta, Saskatchewan and B.C., new research has drawn a direct and measurable link between carbon emissions traced back to the world's major fossil fuel producers and the increase in extreme wildfires across western Canada and the United States.

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Wildfires


Canada wildfires: US East Coast sees worst air quality in years - BBC News

  2023-06-08 (or before) in The BBC

US President Joe Biden says the dense cloak of smoke is a "stark reminder" of climate change.

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Joe Biden | Wildfires


The massive smoke plume choking the northeast U.S. is what climate change looks like » Yale Climate Connections

  2023-06-07 by in Yale Climate Connections

Unearthly skies and unhealthy air resulting from Canadian wildfires may persist for days.

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Wildfires


Climate risks have made California uninsurable. When will we wake up? | Kate Aronoff

  2023-06-06 in The Guardian

State Farm will almost entirely stop issuing new policies in California – with climate-exacerbated wildfires and bad public policy a large reason why

  Tagged under: Farming | Insurance | California | Wildfires | Finance


Number of wildfires across country straining resources - The Globe and Mail

  2023-06-04 in The Globe and Mail: Canadian, World, Politics and Business News & Analysis

As flames force thousands to evacuate in Quebec, calls increase for a national firefighting service

  Tagged under: Wildfires


No relief in sight as wildfires burn across the country - The Globe and Mail

  2023-06-01 in The Globe and Mail: Canadian, World, Politics and Business News & Analysis

Federal Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair told reporters Thursday that this level of wildfire activity on June 1 is unprecedented

  Tagged under: Mexico | Wildfires


N.S. wildfires: Province ‘on edge’ as thousands evacuated, states of emergency declared | Globalnews.ca

  2023-05-29 (or before) in Global News Canada

Fire crews in Nova Scotia are at work trying to contain two massive wildfires burning out of control, destroying homes and displacing thousands of people.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Trees


Insurance giant halts sale of new home policies in California due to wildfires

  2023-05-27 in The Guardian

State Farm also cites inflation of construction costs in statement which comes after increasing wildfires in state

  Tagged under: Insurance | California | Wildfires


BBC World Service - Science In Action, Return of the Wildfires

  2023-05-20 (or before) in The BBC

The record-breaking heat behind the destructive North American wildfires

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Biggest Polluters Linked to Worsening Wildfires in Western U.S. and Canada - EcoWatch

  2023-05-17 (or before) in EcoWatch - For a Healthier Planet and Life

Fossil fuel and cement companies are linked to at least one-third of the area burned by wildfires in the western U.S. and Canada since 1986.

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Fires Threaten Oil Sands; ConocoPhillips Briefly Pulls Staff - Bloomberg

  2023-05-17 (or before) in Bloomberg

Resurgent wildfires in Canada’s main energy-producing province prompted what may be the first round of evacuations in the country’s vast oil-sands producing region and are raising the possibility of more shut-ins in the days ahead.

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Warning signs across the world suggest climate change is now out of control – Dr Richard Dixon

  2023-05-15 (or before) in The Scotsman

Wildfires rage in Canada, heatwaves in Europe, Africa and Asia, sea ice and glaciers disappearing – the effects of climate change are becoming impossible to ignore

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Africa | Heatwaves | Wildfires


The Mega-fire Danger Coming To Your Home Soon

  2023-05-14 (or before) in YouTube

Catalyst: Earth on Fire - The new environmental disaster waiting just around the cornerSubscribe to Journeyman for daily uploads: http://www.youtube.com/subs...

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Wildfires | Mexico | Trees


Scientists’ warning on wildfire — a Canadian perspective

  2023-05-14 (or before) in cdnsciencepub.com

Recently, the World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: a Second Notice was issued in response to ongoing and largely unabated environmental degradation due to anthropogenic activities. In the warning, humanity is urged to practice more environmentally sustainable alternatives to business as usual to avoid potentially catastrophic outcomes. Following the success of their warning, the Alliance of World Scientists called for discipline-specific follow-up papers. This paper is an answer to that call for the topic of wildland fire. Across much of Canada and the world, wildfires are anticipated to increase in severity and frequenc...

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Health | Climate Change Impacts | Wildfires | Trees


Canada: extreme ‘heat dome’ temperatures set to worsen wildfires

  2023-05-12 in The Guardian

System – extremely rare for this time of year – likely to fuel fires that have already displaced tens of thousands of residents

  Tagged under: Wildfires


As Alberta burns, we need a political vision to extinguish the flames ⋆ The Breach

  2023-05-11 by in The Breach Canada

Alberta’s wildfires make the case for bold climate action while Danielle Smith and Rachel Notley look away

  Tagged under: Wildfires


How Wildfire Smoke from Australia Affected Climate Events Around the World - Inside Climate News

  2023-05-10 by in Inside Climate News

The aerosol fallout from wildfires that burned across more than 70,000 square miles of Australia in 2019 and 2020 was so persistent and widespread that it brightened a vast area of clouds above the subtropical Pacific Ocean.  Beneath those clouds, the ocean surface and the atmosphere cooled, shifting a key tropical rainfall belt northward and […]

  Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Wildfires


Severe wildfires have engulfed Russia's Kurgan Region

  2023-05-08 (or before) in YouTube

Severe wildfires have engulfed Kurgan Region, Russia. The sky has turned red, with the smoke blotting out the Sun – a truly terrifying sight.Follow Independe...

  Tagged under: Russia | Wildfires


Thousands forced to evacuate as wildfires ravage western Canada

  2023-05-05 in The Guardian

More than 13,000 people were ordered to leave parts of Alberta as 78 fires burned. Officials say the blazes are expected to intensify

  Tagged under: Wildfires


‘Even in the realms of extreme, it’s extreme’: how UK music festivals are planning for freak weather

  2023-04-12 in The Guardian

Whether waterlogged from flooding or parched and prone to wildfires, festival sites are having to plan for every eventuality – and the costs are substantial

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Early wildfire in Spain’s Valencia region forces 1,500 villagers to evacuate

  2023-03-25 in The Guardian

Emergency services say they have contained spread of blaze that has scorched more than 4,000 hectares

  Tagged under: Spain | Wildfires


Wildfire Smoke Stands to Deplete The Ozone Layer, Scientists Warn

  2023-03-13 by in ScienceAlert

The smoke from recent wildfires is threatening to slow and even reverse the recovery of Earth's ozone layer – the same one that the world has worked so hard to heal since 1987.

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Massive Australia wildfires increased Antarctic ozone hole: Study

  2023-03-12 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and Technology

Smoke from monster wildfires in Australia caused a chemical reaction that widened the ozone hole 10 percent, researchers said Wednesday, raising fears that increasing forest fires could delay the recovery of Earth's atmospheric protection against deadly UV radiation.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Antarctic | Forest Fires | Trees


Smoke from Australian bushfires depleted ozone layer by up to 5% in 2020, study finds

  2023-03-08 in The Guardian

Lead researcher says destruction was similar to process of Antarctic ozone hole forming each spring ‘but at much warmer temperatures’

  Tagged under: Bushfires | Wildfires | Antarctic


Extreme wildfires are turning the world’s largest forest ecosystem from carbon sink into net-emitter

  2023-03-08 in Geography Directions - Geographical expertise applied to the issues that matter most

By Tadas Nikonovas, Swansea University and Stefan H Doerr, Swansea University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The vast…

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Trees


How this country became a climate villain

  2023-03-03 (or before) in YouTube

Australia doesn't make sense. It's being scorched by fires and drowned by floods. It has the sun, wind, water, land, minerals and money to clean up its econo...

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Minerals | Climate Change | Wind Power


Chile battles deadliest wildfires on record as heatwave grips | Reuters

  2023-02-06 in Reuters

Chilean firefighters were battling to hold back forest fires on Monday as authorities said hot and dry weather would continue this week, potentially exacerbating what are already the deadliest blazes in the country's recent history.

  Tagged under: Chile | Forest Fires | Wildfires | Trees


Wildfire smoke getting into your home? Build a DIY Corsi-Rosenthal air filter. » Yale Climate Connections

  2023-01-16 by in Yale Climate Connections

Designed to combat the spread of COVID-19, this simple air purifier can help keep indoor air clean, protecting your health during wildfires. And you can build one for less than $100.

  Tagged under: Health | Wildfires


Witness to paradise being lost: my year in the dying Amazon

  2022-12-16 in The Guardian

In the past 12 months I have learned that the mass extermination of the Amazon is a climate catastrophe – and much more

  Tagged under: Deforestation | Amazon Rainforest | Brazil | Wildfires | Trees


Wildfires are climbing up the snowiest mountains of the western U.S.

  2022-12-14 in Mongabay

In the western United States, natural periods of fire and snow are cyclical. The summer brings wildfire season, and the winter brings ski season. But as the globe warms, these cycles have become erratic and less reliable, with dramatic impacts on the region’s vital water supply. Now, researchers have shown that severe wildfires are diminishing […]

  Tagged under: Wildfires


‘The climate crisis is now’: haunting video spotlights California wildfires

  2022-09-23 in The Guardian

The release by a Greta Thunberg-inspired activist group was timed with the global climate strike protests launching Friday

  Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Activism | Wildfires | California


Tree loss due to fire is worst in far northern latitudes, data shows

  2022-08-17 in The Guardian

Forests in Russia are most affected, as scientists warn of escape of huge quantities of buried carbon dioxide

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Arctic | Greenhouse Gases | Russia | Trees


New research reveals that wildfires can influence El Niño

  2022-08-14 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and Technology

Wildfire is a phenomenon that has affected pretty much every vegetated environment on Earth for millions of years. However, during the past few decades, the planet has been experiencing extraordinary wildfire activity, with widespread devastation in diverse places such as the Mediterranean, North and South America, Southeast Asia, Australia and even Siberia. The current year has already shown troubling signs of massive fires—for example, Europe's total burnt area for the 2022 fire season is four times greater than the 2006–2021 average, according to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS).

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Forest Fires | El Niño | Trees


Megafire rips through swathes of land near Bordeaux

  2022-08-13 (or before) in BBC

Firefighters continue to try to extinguish the wildfire raging through the Gironde region.

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Risk of catastrophic megafloods has doubled in California, study finds

  2022-08-12 in The Guardian

Scientists concluded that a series of storms could dump enough rainfall to displace millions, causing over $1tn in losses

  Tagged under: Extreme Rainfall | Wildfires | Drought | California


French PM sounds climate crisis alarm as ‘ogre-like’ wildfire rages

  2022-08-11 in The Guardian

Élisabeth Borne makes statement as more than 1,000 firefighters battle huge blaze south of Bordeaux

  Tagged under: Wildfires | France


California wildfire: McKinney Fire spreads rapidly in north of state - BBC News

  2022-08-01 (or before) in The BBC

Thunderstorms and erratic winds could complicate the US state's largest fire so far this year.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | California


When Extreme Weather Reigns, Disinformation Pours

  2022-07-29 by in DeSmog

Editor’s Note: This is part of a regular column, Gaslit, which navigates society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. Have a tip or idea? Get in touch. Recent extreme weather across the globe is showing us how rapidly the climate is changing in an increasingly warming world. Heatwaves are scorching Europe, the United States, North Africa, Siberia, […]

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Heatwaves | Drought | Africa | Disinformation and Misinformation


Spanish man filmed escaping wildfire treated for serious burns

  2022-07-19 in The Guardian

Man in 50s emerges from blaze with clothes burned to rags and flames flickering around him

  Tagged under: Spain | Extreme Weather | Wildfires


Humanity faces ‘collective suicide’ over climate crisis, warns UN chief

  2022-07-18 in The Guardian

António Guterres tells governments ‘half of humanity is in danger zone’, as countries battle extreme heat

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Heatwave: More evacuations as Mediterranean wildfires spread - BBC News

  2022-07-17 (or before) in The BBC

Wildfires force France to evacuate some 16,000 people, as Spain, Croatia and Greece are also hit.

  Tagged under: Spain | Wildfires | Heatwaves | France | Greece


‘All that’s needed is a spark’: why the US may be headed for a summer of mega-fire

  2022-07-07 in The Guardian

An explosive spring season has already burned more land than the 10-year average, with summers only expected to intensify

  Tagged under: Oregon | Wildfires | Drought | Texas | California | Alaska


Coal Seam Fire memories still burning a decade later

  2022-07-05 (or before) by in postindependent.com

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado - Ten years ago today, a wildfire sparked by a burning underground coal seam and pushed by hot, dry gusting winds blew up into a roaring

  Tagged under: Colorado State | Wildfires | Coal


Suicides indicate wave of ‘doomerism’ over escalating climate crisis

  2022-05-19 in The Guardian

While alarm over wildfires, droughts, flooding and societal unrest is on the rise, not many of us talk about climate angst

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Drought


List of California wildfires - Wikipedia

  2022-05-15 (or before) in Wikipedia

  Tagged under: Wildfires | California


With water running out, California faces grim summer of dangerous heat, extreme drought

  2022-05-04 in Los Angeles Times

La Niña was expected to dissipate, but it may linger through the summer. That's bad news for drought and wildfire-prone California.

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Drought | California


Scorching Heatwave In India Reaches 115°F

  2022-05-02 (or before) by in Forbes

South Asia (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh) is in the midst of an unrelenting heatwave.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Heatwaves | Climate Change | Famine and Food Insecurity | India


Climate change could cause worst UK wildfires in years warn fire chiefs

  2022-05-01 (or before) in inews.co.uk

UK could face wildfires on the scale of those in southern Spain, within the decade. Madeleine Cuff reveals how the brigade is preparing to deal with a more hazardous environment

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Climate Change


Wildfires will pose great socioeconomic risk in future, say researchers

  2022-03-22 in The Guardian

Chinese and American scientists say western and central Africa may be hit in future

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Africa


Wildfires may slow recovery of ozone layer - study - BBC News

  2022-03-01 (or before) in The BBC

Smoke from Australian wildfires affects the layer that shields the Earth from harmful UV rays.

  Tagged under: Wildfires


'Surreal' January wildfire shuts California highway - BBC News

  2022-01-25 (or before) in The BBC

An unseasonal blaze rages in the Monterey County, forcing evacuations and the closure of Highway 1.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | California


"Have reverence for life" - Interview with ecocentrist Fred Hageneder on climate disruption, species extinction and our future on Earth

  2022-01-22 in Pressenza - International Press Agency

Heat waves, droughts, floods and wildfires are on the rise, the IPCC and the UN are sounding the alarm bells. Recently, even a report by the National

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Drought | IPCC | Extinction


Colorado winter wildfires destroy hundreds of homes as thousands flee

  2021-12-31 in The Guardian

Gusts of up to 105 mph whipped up flames, destroying hundreds of homes and prompting the governor to declare a state of emergency

  Tagged under: Colorado State | Wildfires


Wildfires sweep through Colorado destroying homes as tens of thousands evacuate – video report

  2021-12-31 in The Guardian

Two fast-moving wildfires driven by strong winds erupted in northern Colorado on Thursday afternoon, destroying close to 600 homes and forcing tens of thousands of residents to flee

  Tagged under: Colorado State | Wildfires


LIVE BLOG: Powerful winds cause widespread damage, fuel wildfires

  2021-12-16 (or before) in KWCH | Local News, Weather, Sports | Wichita, KS

The National Weather Service in Goodland said a 107 mph wind gust was observed in Lamar, Colorado, Wednesday morning.

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Wildfires break carbon emission records in US, Siberia, and Turkey, as climate change fans intense blazes, says EU monitoring service

  2021-12-08 (or before) in Sky News

Climate change is producing more intense wildfires which are, in turn, emitting higher levels of CO2, says the European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Climate Change | Russia


Multi-decadal increase of forest burned area in Australia is linked to climate change - Nature Communications

  2021-11-27 (or before) in Nature

The degree to which wildfire activity in Australia is affected by climate change is not well quantified. Here, the authors show that the frequency of forest fires and the area burned have increased significantly over recent decades, mainly due to an increase in dangerous fire weather conditions through warmer temperature and circulation changes.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Climate Change | Forest Fires | Trees


We’re in uncharted territory for the world’s climate, UN says

  2021-10-31 in The Guardian

Report sets out heatwaves, wildfires, droughts and floods that have wreaked havoc this year

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Heatwaves | Drought | COP26


A recent climate report has left me devastated – I beg you to read it | The Independent

  2021-09-26 (or before) in The Independent

As I thought how best to convey the essential, terrifying message of the report, I decided I should just lay out the raw facts and let them reach your soul, writes Donnachadh McCarthy

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Drought | Climate Change


Where Americans Moved Into Fire Danger Zones

  2021-09-25 (or before) in Bloomberg

In the first year of Covid, migration increased into areas that have seen recent wildfires — even as climate change intensifies risk.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Climate Change | Insurance | California | Trees


Copernicus: A summer of wildfires saw devastation and record emissions around the Northern Hemisphere | Copernicus

  2021-09-24 (or before) in Copernicus

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Fresh California wildfire prompts evacuations as forest blazes grow

  2021-09-24 in The Guardian

Fawn fire scorches more than 8.5 sq miles amid hot, dry and gusty conditions as smoke from forest raises air quality concerns

  Tagged under: Wildfires | California | Trees


Russia forest fire damage worst since records began, says Greenpeace

  2021-09-22 in The Guardian

Analysis shows over 18.16m hectares were destroyed in 2021, an absolute record since satellite monitoring began

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Arctic | Greenpeace | Russia | Trees


Global wildfire carbon dioxide emissions at record high, data shows

  2021-09-21 in The Guardian

Figures from EU monitoring service for August are highest since it began measurements in 2003

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Greenhouse Gases | Trees


Economic Growth - Facing Future

  2021-08-21 (or before) in Facing Future

Infinite Growth on a Finite Planet “Global civilization has an operating system. It is disastrously flawed. It is killing us. It is known by two common names: money and growth economics. Money is a virus of the mind which uses humanity [and nature] for its own reproduction.” – Stuart Scott, Director of the Facing Future … Continue reading "Economic Growth"

  Tagged under: Deforestation | Oceans | Farming | Wildfires | Drought | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Methane | Economics | Wildlife | Fossil Fuels | Economic Growth | Sea Level | Trees | Sustainability


The climate science behind wildfires: why are they getting worse? – video explainer

  2021-08-20 by in The Guardian

The Guardian's global environment editor, Jonathan Watts, explains the science behind why wildfires are getting worse and what we need to do to tackle the problem

  Tagged under: Wildfires | IPCC | Climate Change


More Than 40 Million Acres of Land Have Burned in Siberia

  2021-08-20 (or before) by in Smithsonian Magazine

Russia has seen an increasing severity of wildfires in recent years due to rising summer temperatures and a historic drought

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Drought | Climate Change | Russia


Center for Constitutional Rights

  2021-08-18 in The Mercury News - Bay Area news, sports, business, entertainment, lifestyle and commentary

In visit to Big Basin Redwoods State Park, governor talks climate change, wildfire recovery

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Climate Change | California


‘The fire moved around it’: success story in Oregon fuels calls for prescribed burns

  2021-08-12 in The Guardian

Oregon’s Bootleg fire has offered new evidence that Indigenous techniques can change how megafires behave

  Tagged under: Oregon | Wildfires | Climate Change


Smoke from Siberia wildfires reaches north pole in historic first

  2021-08-09 in The Guardian

Occurrence is first since records began and comes as Russian weather officials warn blazes are worsening

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Arctic | Russia


HelpTurkey hashtag under investigation for ‘spreading fear’ about wildfires

  2021-08-08 in The Guardian

Stung by criticism of bungled response to devastating fires, president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says criticism is orchestrated by foreign powers

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Northern Hemisphere wildfires follow pattern of warm and dry weather | Copernicus

  2021-08-07 (or before) in Copernicus

  Tagged under: Wildfires


'Nothing's safe' as wildfire tears through California town | AP News

  2021-08-06 (or before) in Associated Press News

GREENVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Shelton Douthit and his team at the Feather River Land Trust in Northern California have been working to restore the lush natural habitat and protect Indigenous artifacts around Lake Almanor.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Rivers | California


Last month was worst July for wildfires on record, say scientists

  2021-08-06 in The Guardian

Burning of land released 343 megatonnes of carbon, with wildfire season yet to peak in many areas

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Greenhouse Gases


Greece fires: 150 houses destroyed by wildfires as monks refuse to leave stricken island

  2021-08-05 in The Guardian

Villages on Evia are evacuated as blaze rages across the island, and fires also threaten suburbs of Athens and historic Olympia

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Greece


Researchers study conditions that can lead to overwintering wildfires - Wildfire Today

  2021-08-04 (or before) in Wildfire Today - News and opinion about wildland fire

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Brush fire burns 40,000 acres on Hawaii's Big Island - Wildfire Today

  2021-08-04 (or before) in Wildfire Today - News and opinion about wildland fire

  Tagged under: Wildfires


research Archives - Wildfire Today

  2021-08-04 (or before) in Wildfire Today - News and opinion about wildland fire

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Turkey appeals for help to fight wildfires as heatwave continues

  2021-08-02 in The Guardian

Wildfires break out across much of southern Europe, with temperature reaching 45C in Greece

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Heatwaves


Turkish fires sweeping through tourist areas are the hottest on record

  2021-07-30 in The Guardian

Thousands of holidaymakers evacuated from Aegean Sea resorts as country fights more than 50 blazes

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Bootleg Fire is burning up carbon offsets - CNN

  2021-07-28 (or before) by in CNN

These forests were meant to survive one hundred years. Persistent drought and wildfire conditions are threatening carbon offsets. The question is whether these offsets matter, if their stored carbon goes up in smoke due to climate change.

  Tagged under: Oregon | Wildfires | Drought | Climate Change | Trees


ALERT Wildfire

  2021-07-25 (or before) in alertwildfire.org

  Tagged under: Wildfires | India


US set for punishing temperatures as huge ‘heat dome’ to settle over country

  2021-07-24 in The Guardian

Heatwave to next week roast areas already gripped by severe drought, plunging reservoirs and wildfires

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Heatwaves | Drought


The Briefing Room - COP26: Floods, Fire, and the Future - BBC Sounds

  2021-07-22 (or before) in The BBC

Can COP26 help tackle climate change and save us from droughts, wildfires and floods?

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Drought | COP26 | Climate Change


Wildfires, floods and extreme heat: It is time to heed warnings from climate scientists

  2021-07-22 by in The Hill

The science is clear. The impacts and costs are clear. Climate action must therefore remain at the center of current infrastructure spending proposals.

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Drought | Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | Climate Change Impacts


Scorched, Parched and Now Uninsurable: Climate Change Hits Wine Country

  2021-07-18 in The New York Times

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Climate Change | Insurance | California


Scorched, Parched and Now Uninsurable: Climate Change Hits Wine Country

  2021-07-18 in The New York Times

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Coal | Climate Change | Insurance | California


"The fires are outpacing the resources": Western wildfires take toll on firefighters - CBS News

  2021-07-15 (or before) in CBS News

Firefighters in the West are stretched thin as fires cause extensive damage.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | California


American west stuck in cycle of ‘heat, drought and fire’, experts warn

  2021-07-13 in The Guardian

Wildfires in several states are burning with worrying ferocity across a tinder-dry landscape

  Tagged under: Oregon | Wildfires | Drought | California


US heatwave: Wildfires rage in western states as temperatures soar - BBC News

  2021-07-11 (or before) in The BBC

Tributes are paid to two firefighters who died in a plane crash while responding to a blaze in Arizona.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Heatwaves


B.C. town destroyed, Canada Day reflections, Alberta reopens | The National for July 1, 2021

  2021-07-03 (or before) in YouTube

Officials say the town of Lytton, B.C., was essentially destroyed by a wildfire overnight Wednesday as blistering heat sparks more fires throughout the provi...

  Tagged under: Joe Biden | Wildfires | Climate Change | Collapse


Joe Biden blames climate crisis for deadly heatwave in western US and Canada

  2021-06-30 in The Guardian

Record-shattering temperatures linked to dozens of deaths, buckled roads, blackouts and wildfires

  Tagged under: Oregon | Joe Biden | Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Heatwaves | Washington State


Record-breaking heat wave envelops West, straining grid and sparking wildfires - Axios

  2021-06-16 (or before) by in Axios

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Electricity Grid


10% of the World's Sequoias Burned in 2020 Castle Fire

  2021-06-04 (or before) in Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

The climate crisis has put sequoias on a dangerous path. A draft report from the National Park Service indicates that 10% of the largest trees in the world were wiped out in last year’s Castle Fire.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | California | Trees


Los Alamos researchers study how wildfire smoke impacts climate

  2021-04-19 (or before) by in Santa Fe New Mexican News, opinion and sports from Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico

A new tool developed at LANL will analyze moisture levels in wildfire smoke plumes and study how water binds with soot particles.

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Scientists need to face both facts and feelings when dealing with the climate crisis | Kimberly Nicholas

  2021-03-24 in The Guardian

I was taught to use my head, not my heart. But acknowledging sadness at what is lost can help us safeguard the future, says professor of sustainability science Kimberly Nicholas

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Sea Level | Health | Sustainability


Wildfires could become a big threat in the UK due to climate change

  2021-03-24 (or before) by in New Scientist

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Climate Change


Thousands evacuated in Australia's worst floods in nearly half a century | Reuters

  2021-03-23 (or before) in Reuters

Australian authorities issued fresh flood warnings and evacuation orders on Tuesday as torrential rains again pummelled several parts of the country, sweeping away homes, roads and livestock in the worst downpour in more than half a century.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Forest Fires | Wildlife | Trees


Is this the end of forests as we've known them?

  2021-03-10 in The Guardian

Trees lost to drought and wildfires are not returning. Climate change is taking a toll on the world’s forests - and radically changing the environment before our eyes

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Drought | Climate Change | Trees


Fiercer, more frequent fires may reduce carbon capture by forests

  2021-02-25 in The Guardian

Global study shows blazes diminish forest density and tree size, making woods likely to sequester less carbon

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Greenhouse Gases | Forest Fires | Trees | Carbon Capture and Storage


How fires have spread to previously untouched parts of the world

  2021-02-19 (or before) by in The Guardian

Fires have always been a part of our natural world. But they’re moving to new ecosystems previously untouched by fire – and this is concerning scientists

  Tagged under: Bushfires | Wildfires | Brazil | California


Eight priorities for calculating the social cost of carbon

  2021-02-19 (or before) in Nature

Advice to the Biden administration as it seeks to account for mounting losses from storms, wildfires and other climate impacts. Advice to the Biden administration as it seeks to account for mounting losses from storms, wildfires and other climate impacts.

  Tagged under: Joe Biden | Wildfires


California's rainfall is at historic lows. That spells trouble for wildfires and farms

  2021-02-11 in The Guardian

Precipitation fills reservoirs, limits fire danger and feeds important crops. But the state has seen only 30% to 70% of what it would expect

  Tagged under: Farming | Extreme Rainfall | Wildfires | Drought | California


Climate change disasters in B.C. likely to increase if industrial logging continues unchecked: report | CBC News

  2021-02-03 (or before) in CBC.ca - Canada's Public Broadcaster

A report commissioned by Sierra Club B.C. says keeping healthy, mature forests safe from industrial logging will help protect the province from catastrophic flooding, wildfires, droughts and heat waves caused by climate change.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Drought | Climate Change | Flooding | Health | Trees


Climate crisis: 2020 was joint hottest year ever recorded

  2021-01-08 in The Guardian

Global heating continued unabated despite Covid lockdowns, with record Arctic wildfires and Atlantic tropical storms

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Arctic | Fossil Fuels | El Niño


Colorado's record-breaking wildfires show "climate change is here and now" - CBS News

  2020-11-04 (or before) in CBS News

As bad as this year has been, scientists warn it's "unlikely that the records from 2020 will stand for long."

  Tagged under: Colorado State | Wildfires | Climate Change


Clouds of Concern Linger as Wildfires Drag into Flu Season and Covid-19 Numbers Swell - Inside Climate News

  2020-10-24 in Inside Climate News

Wildfire smoke had choked the mountain valleys of western Montana for nearly two months when a team of university researchers landed in Seeley Lake in the fall of 2017. Students and faculty left  their labs behind, headed to the small community and launched a study on how the relentless wildfire smoke was affecting the health […]

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Health


'Total destruction': why fires are tearing across South America

  2020-10-09 in The Guardian

Wildfires, mostly caused by land clearing for cattle grazing and soya production, have set four nations ablaze

  Tagged under: Argentina | Deforestation | Wildfires | Rainforests | Amazon Rainforest | Brazil | Forest Fires | Cattle and Dairy Farming | Trees


Brazil's Amazon rainforest suffers worst fires in a decade

  2020-10-01 in The Guardian

Satellites record 61% rise in hotspots over September 2019 as scientist warns: ‘It could get worse if the drought continues’

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Drought | Rainforests | Amazon Rainforest | Brazil


New studies confirm weakening of the Gulf Stream circulation (AMOC)

  2020-09-17 in RealClimate

Many of the earlier predictions of climate research have now become reality. The world is getting warmer, sea levels are rising faster and faster, and more frequent heat waves, extreme rainfall, devastating wildfires and more severe tropical storms are affecting many millions of people. Now there is growing evidence that another climate forecast is already coming true: the Gulf Stream system in the Atlantic is apparently weakening, with consequences for Europe too. ...

  Tagged under: Extreme Rainfall | Wildfires | Predictions | Sea Level


New studies confirm weakening of the Gulf Stream circulation (AMOC)

  2020-09-17 in RealClimate

Many of the earlier predictions of climate research have now become reality. The world is getting warmer, sea levels are rising faster and faster, and more frequent heat waves, extreme rainfall, devastating wildfires and more severe tropical storms are affecting many millions of people. Now there is growing evidence that another climate forecast is already coming true: the Gulf Stream system in the Atlantic is apparently weakening, with consequences for Europe too. ...

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Extreme Rainfall | Wildfires | Predictions | Gulf Stream (AMOC) | Sea Level


Op-Ed: Concrete steps California can take to prevent massive fire devastation

  2020-09-16 in Los Angeles Times

Fires are inevitable in the West, but widespread devastation doesn't have to be. Here are concrete steps California can take to mitigate fire damage.

  Tagged under: California | Wildfires


The future has arrived. These explosive fires are our climate change wakeup call | Peter Gleick

  2020-09-11 in The Guardian

Scientists have been warning of the growing threat of climate change, and now those projections are a reality

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Climate Change


Climate change is already making California feel unlivable 

  2020-09-11 (or before) in The Telegraph

Through pandemic and wildfires, residents can no longer socialise indoors or out

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Climate Change | California


Broadcast TV networks’ August wildfire coverage missed key factors including climate change, coronavirus, and prison labor

  2020-09-10 (or before) in Media Matters for America

August was a turbulent month for wildfire activity in the Western U.S. California alone suffered through two of its largest wildfires in recent history, and there are more than 80 other large, active fires burning in 15 states. Record-breaking temperatures and climate change are playing a role in the size and scale of the fires, and the coronavirus pandemic is complicating efforts to contain the blazes and safely evacuate those in their path. But a review by Media Matters found that these factors were largely ignored in broadcast TV news coverage of the month’s wildfires. Key Findings: Corporate broadcast TV ou...

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Climate Change | California


Climate Apocalypse Now

  2020-08-27 by in Rolling Stone - Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

Maybe it’s just a failure of human imagination to understand what is coming

  Tagged under: Wildfires | California


California and Colorado Fires May Be Part of a Climate-Driven Transformation of Wildfires Around the Globe - Inside Climate News

  2020-08-22 by in Inside Climate News

The wildfires that exploded over the past few days in California and Colorado show clear influences of global warming, climate scientists say, and evidence of how a warming and drying climate is increasing the size and severity of fires from the California coast to the high Rocky Mountains.  They may also be the latest examples […]

  Tagged under: Colorado State | Wildfires | Climate Change | California


California wildfires: thousands evacuate as 'siege' of flames overwhelms state

  2020-08-20 in The Guardian

Hundreds of fires, stoked by a searing heatwave, prompt governor to declare a state of emergency

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Heatwaves | California


Wildfires in Siberia increase five-fold amid unprecedented heatwave

  2020-07-02 (or before) in The Watchers - Watching the world evolve and transform

Wildfires in Siberia have grown five-fold over the past week amid an unprecedented heatwave, according to Russia's forest fire aerial protection service. This came after the town of Verkhoyansk hit 38 °C (100.4 °F), marking the hottest-ev...

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Heatwaves | Russia | Trees


Climate crisis: alarm at record-breaking heatwave in Siberia

  2020-06-17 in The Guardian

Unusually high temperatures in region linked to wildfires, oil spill and moth swarms

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Heatwaves | Arctic | Russia


Animal deaths 'likely' as wildfire tears through nature reserve

  2020-06-05 (or before) in Brighton Argus

A MYSTERIOUS fire tore through one hectare of a wildlife reserve, potentially killing animals.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Wildlife


False Biomass Energy Industry Claims Demand a Response | Save Our Roots

  2020-06-03 in Save Our Roots - An Indigenous Peoples Campaign to Protect the Sacred Biodiversity of Our Natural Forests

One pervasive piece of biomass industry fiction in this article is that recent tree mortality in California will cause more intense wildfires, so dead trees should be cut down. Yet numerous studies show that dead trees do not increase wildfire severity or extent.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | California | Trees


‘Zombie’ wildfires threaten Arctic Russia, scientists warn

  2020-06-01 (or before) in The Independent Barents Observer |

  Tagged under: Russia | Wildfires | Arctic


Brighton under wildfire warning after driest May since 1897

  2020-05-29 (or before) in Brighton Argus

A WILDFIRE warning has been issued for the weekend.

  Tagged under: Wildfires


Siberian Wildfires Burn an Area Three Times the Size of Delaware

  2020-05-03 (or before) in Earther | Gizmodo

It’s spring in an era of rapid climate change so that means Russia is being lit up by monster fires. But in an era of coronavirus, a confluence of factors has made the wildfires even worse.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Climate Change | Russia


Pope urges politicians to take 'drastic measures' on climate change | Reuters

  2020-03-10 (or before) in Reuters

Pope Francis challenged governments on Sunday to take "drastic measures" to combat global warming and reduce the use of fossil fuels, saying the world was experiencing a climate emergency.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Climate Change | Africa | Forest Fires | Fossil Fuels | Pope Francis | Finance


If Plan A is to Mitigate Climate Change, What’s Plan B? | ArchDaily

  2020-02-29 in ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide

This article was originally published on Washington Post, courtesy of Common Edge. Hundred-year floods. Record-breaking Antarctic heat. Wildfires...

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Antarctic | Wildfires


For the Economy, Climate Risks Are No Longer Theoretical

  2020-01-28 (or before) by in The Wall Street Journal - Breaking News, Business, Financial & Economic News, World News and Video

Climate crises in the next 30 years may resemble financial crises in recent decades: potentially quite destructive, largely unpredictable and, given the powerful underlying causes, inevitable.

  Tagged under: Economics | Wildfires | Climate Change | Economic Growth


‘Blatant manipulation’: Trump administration exploited wildfire science to promote logging

  2020-01-24 in The Guardian

Revealed: emails show Trump and appointees tried to craft a narrative that forest protection efforts are responsible for wildfires

  Tagged under: Donald Trump | Extreme Weather | Wildfires | US Politics | California | Trees


Warren calls on big U.S. banks for steps on climate risk | Reuters

  2020-01-22 (or before) in Reuters

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, a contender for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, is asking the biggest U.S. banks for details on their assessments of and preparations for risks related to global warming.

  Tagged under: USA | Wildfires | Forest Fires | US Politics | Trees


Huge dust storms in Australia hit central New South Wales

  2020-01-19 in The Guardian

Videos posted to social media show the clouds turning day into night in some areas

  Tagged under: Bushfires | Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Drought


Beetles and fire kill dozens of 'indestructible' giant sequoia trees

  2020-01-18 in The Guardian

Deadly interaction between insects, drought and fire damage have forced California’s park officials to trigger climate crisis plans intended for the 2050s

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Drought | Insects | California | Trees


Australia Will Lose to Climate Change

  2020-01-06 (or before) in The Atlantic

Even as the country fights bushfires, it can’t stop dumping planet-warming pollution into the atmosphere.

  Tagged under: Oceans | Global Warming | Climate Change | Australia | Bushfires | Wildfires | Economic Growth | Great Barrier Reef | Coral Reefs


Opinion: Mourning a disappearing world as Australia burns

  2020-01-04 (or before) in The Globe and Mail: Canadian, World, Politics and Business News & Analysis

As fires rage, destroying homes, habitats and lives, it’s difficult not to see this tragedy as a deadly consequence of decades of neglect

  Tagged under: Bushfires | Wildfires | Climate Change | Wildlife


The environment in 2050: flooded cities, forced migration – and the Amazon turning to savannah

  2019-12-30 in The Guardian

Unless we focus on shared solutions, violent storms and devastating blazes could be the least of the world’s troubles. Civilisation itself will be at risk

  Tagged under: Deforestation | Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Drought | Amazon Rainforest | IPCC | Climate Change | Geoengineering


Aloha, Scotty from Marketing, is it resurrection you're looking for?

  2019-12-24 in The New Daily - Latest News Headlines From Australia & World

The return of Nero was scripted by Scotty from Marketing and blown up by his colleagues in Publicity at Newscorp. We must not kid ourselves into thinking he will change, writes Richard Flanagan.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Scott Morrison | Bushfires


Waiting for a megafire: the battle against Australia's biggest blaze

  2019-12-21 in The Guardian

The Gospers Mountain fire has consumed hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest and is now threatening towns and lives

  Tagged under: Bushfires | Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Trees


Revealed: 'monumental' NSW bushfires have burnt 20% of Blue Mountains world heritage area

  2019-12-03 in The Guardian

More than 10% of forest in NSW national parks destroyed by fire this season, with the damage to Gondwana rainforest a ‘global tragedy’

  Tagged under: Deforestation | Bushfires | Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Rainforests | Trees


More homes threatened by NSW bushfires as hazardous smoke blankets Sydney

  2019-12-03 in The Guardian

At least one home lost on NSW south coast as an out-of-control bushfire burned in Forrestdale, south-east of Perth in WA

  Tagged under: Bushfires | Extreme Weather | Wildfires


California: thousands flee from fire burning near Santa Barbara

  2019-11-26 in The Guardian

Up to 6,300 people evacuated and 2,400 homes threatened by wind-driven wildfire that erupted Monday afternoon in Los Padres national forest

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | California | Trees


Police raid office of Brazil NGO linked to brigade that helped battle Amazon fires

  2019-11-26 in The Guardian

Raid and arrests were a politically-motivated attack on dedicated firefighters and a respected NGO, indigenous associations and campaigners say

  Tagged under: Deforestation | Wildfires | Rainforests | Amazon Rainforest | Brazil


Australian residents brace for severe fire danger across NSW, Victoria and Tasmania

  2019-11-20 in The Guardian

Extreme heat hits across the country as parts of Victoria prepare for worst possible bushfire conditions on Thursday

  Tagged under: Bushfires | Extreme Weather | Wildfires


This is what it looks like when your government sells out the climate for votes | Katharine Murphy

  2019-11-15 in The Guardian

The real reason the Coalition doesn’t want to talk about the climate is that its record is one of unmitigated shame and failure

  Tagged under: Bushfires | Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Coal


Climate crisis will affect lifelong health of young, warn doctors

  2019-11-13 in The Guardian

Lancet Countdown tracks impacts of global heating covering disease, wildfires and malnutrition

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Health | Women and Children | Children


Waking Up from the California Dream in the Age of Wildfires

  2019-11-12 (or before) in The New Yorker

  Tagged under: Wildfires | California


We've been in bushfire hell in Glen Innes – and the scientists knew it was coming | Carol Sparks

  2019-11-11 in The Guardian

My community deserves the unvarnished truth from me, its mayor. Ignorance and arrogance delivered us ashes

  Tagged under: Bushfires | Extreme Weather | Wildfires


Californians close to wildfires are more likely to vote green

  2019-11-11 (or before) in The Economist Magazine

Climate disasters are changing Democratic voters’ minds, but not Republicans’ | Graphic detail

  Tagged under: Wildfires | California


Australia bushfires: Three dead and thousands forced from homes - BBC News

  2019-11-09 (or before) in The BBC

More than 100 blazes burn across New South Wales and Queensland, amid warnings of more to come.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Australia | Bushfires


After wildfires, hundreds of thousands of Californians can't get insurance - CBS News

  2019-11-09 (or before) in CBS News

Insurance companies are saying, "We're done with you," one resident says, while others face soaring costs

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Insurance | California


Elected Officials, Community Groups Tell Fire Insurers to Ditch Fossil Fuels in Wake of Rate Hikes and Non-Renewals — INSURE OUR FUTURE — end fossil insurance

  2019-11-09 (or before) in Insure Our Future - end fossil insurance

Amidst ongoing wildfires and massive insurance rate hikes and policy non-renewals across California, 44 groups, businesses, and elected representatives released a letter to the three biggest fire insurers in California to stop fueling the climate crisis, which is creating the conditions for longer wildfire seasons and more destructive fires.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Insurance | Fossil Fuels | California


'Ecological breakdown': Greta Thunberg and youth activists rally as wildfires burn

  2019-11-02 in The Guardian

The Swedish climate activist joined more than 1,000 people for an afternoon of youth-led climate action in Los Angeles

  Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Activism | Wildfires | California


California's fire season has been bad. But it could have been much worse

  2019-11-01 in The Guardian

With planning – and luck – firefighters quickly contained most fires ignited in the past week. But the state remains vulnerable if it doesn’t adapt to more extreme weather

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | California


Ordinary life has vanished in fire-ravaged California | Rebecca Solnit

  2019-10-31 in The Guardian

It’s impossible to quantify the losses caused by the Kincade fire

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | California


Has the climate crisis made California too dangerous to live in? | Bill McKibben

  2019-10-29 in The Guardian

As with so many things, Californians are going first where the rest of us will follow

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | California


'You can't fight this': California wildfires force evacuation in Sonoma county

  2019-10-28 in The Guardian

185,000 evacuated as firefighters battle el diablo winds and governor calls state emergency as 2 million left without power

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | California


California’s governor declares statewide emergency over wildfires as mass evacuation continues - The Washington Post

  2019-10-27 in The Washington Post

The mandatory evacuations affected nearly 180,000 people. About 54,000 acres already have been torched, 94 structures destroyed and State Route 128 turned into a hellish gantlet.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | California


'Potentially historic': dangerous winds expected as fires burn across California

  2019-10-26 in The Guardian

Fresh evacuations in Sonoma county as Kincade fire spreads and wave of power blackouts begin across the state

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | California


California wildfires: tens of thousands ordered to evacuate as power shut off

  2019-10-25 in The Guardian

California’s utility companies impose blackouts to stop winds toppling power lines as strong winds fan fires near Santa Clarita and Geyserville

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | California


World 'gravely' unprepared for effects of climate crisis – report

  2019-09-10 in The Guardian

Trillions of dollars needed to avoid ‘climate apartheid’ but this is less than cost of inaction

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires


Other Climate & Weather Graphics| ACCAP

  2019-09-05 in ACCAP - Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy

Other Graphics Current conditions, changes in extremes, and long time period perspectives. Topics include rain and snow, storminess, and wildfires.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Climate Change


Trump Moves to Open 16.7 Million Acre Alaskan Rainforest to Corporate Exploitation - EcoWatch

  2019-08-28 in EcoWatch - For a Healthier Planet and Life

Trump has reportedly ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to open Alaska's 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest — the planet's largest intact temperate rainforest — to logging and other corporate development projects, a move that comes as thousands of fires are ripping through the Amazon rainforest and putting the "lungs of the world"

  Tagged under: Donald Trump | Wildfires | Rainforests | Forest Fires | Alaska | Trees


NASA Studies How Arctic Wildfires Change the World – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

  2019-08-17 (or before) by in Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

NASA is studying why boreal forest and tundra fires have become more frequent and powerful and what that means for climate forecasting, ecosystems and human health.

  Tagged under: Global Warming | Wildfires | Science | Arctic | Climate Change | Forest Fires | Health | Trees


Climate crisis: CO2 levels rise to highest point since evolution of humans | The Independent | The Independent

  2019-08-15 (or before) in The Independent

‘We don’t know a planet like this’

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Coral Reefs | Sea Level


Arctic wildfires spew soot and smoke cloud bigger than EU

  2019-08-12 in The Guardian

Plume from unprecedented blazes forecast to reach Alaska as fires rage for third month

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Arctic | Greenhouse Gases | Russia | Alaska


Record heatwave 'made much more likely' by human impact on climate

  2019-08-02 in The Guardian

Scientists say July at least equalled and may have beaten hottest month on record

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Heatwaves


Arctic wildfires emitted as much CO2 in June as Sweden does in a year

  2019-07-12 in The Guardian

Wildfires this year have been at an unusual intensity despite being common in the northern hemisphere between May and October

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Arctic | Russia


Alarming wildfires rage near giant ‘Mouth of Hell’ gash in the tundra, a wonder of Siberia

  2019-06-20 (or before) in Siberian Times - all about Siberia, in English

Destruction of trees by flames could see Batagai Depression ‘rapidly enlarge’ while remote local settlements also threatened.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Russia | Trees


Climate change could make insurance too expensive for most people – report

  2019-03-21 in The Guardian

Munich Re, world’s largest reinsurance firm, warns premium rises could become social issue

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Wildfires | Climate Change | Insurance


Heatwaves sweeping oceans ‘like wildfires’, scientists reveal

  2019-03-04 in The Guardian

Extreme temperatures destroy kelp, seagrass and corals – with alarming impacts for humanity

  Tagged under: Oceans | Wildfires | Heatwaves | Coral Reefs


Neil Young criticises Trump after losing his home in California fires

  2018-11-12 in The Guardian

Songwriter says state is vulnerable because of climate change and accuses US president of defying science

  Tagged under: Donald Trump | Wildfires | Climate Change | California


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