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“Apocalyptic Scenes” – Wildfires Consume Turkey
“Apocalyptic Scenes” – Wildfires Consume Turkey Wildfires have been ravaging Turkey’s Mediterranean coast for the past few days, killing four, burning thousands of building structures, and affecting more than a dozen provinces. Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin called the wildfires a national disaster. According to Reuters, at least 60 wildfires have broken out across the country’s […]
Christmas Tree Farms Scorched In Oregon Amid Record Heat
Christmas Tree Farms Scorched In Oregon Amid Record Heat Oregon’s record-breaking heat waves and raging wildfires are set to dent Christmas tree crop output, resulting in supply constraints that may send prices skyrocketing come December. According to Reuters, who spoke with multiple Christmas tree farm operators in Oregon, one of the top Christmas tree producing states, […]
California Grid Strained As Power Shortfalls Loom
California Grid Strained As Power Shortfalls Loom Amid another heat wave across the Western half of the US, California issued a stage-2 power-grid emergency alert Friday and urged customers to conserve power as temperatures surpassed 100 degrees, according to The Sacramento Bee. The state’s grid operator, California Independent System Operator (ISO), issued the alert on Friday, […]
PG&E Warns Of More Blackouts As California Wildfire Season Begins
PG&E Warns Of More Blackouts As California Wildfire Season Begins It has been an arid spring in California, and that’s causing alarm with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. executives who have said this week they will need more frequent power cuts to customers in Northern California to prevent wildfires. PG&E’s chief risk officer Sumeet Singh told WSJ that California’s […]
Wildfires Are Contaminating Drinking Water Systems, and It’s More Widespread Than People Realize
Wildfires Are Contaminating Drinking Water Systems, and It’s More Widespread Than People Realize Fire in one part of a community can contaminate the water system used by other residents, as Santa Rosa, California, discovered after the Tubbs Fire. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images More than 58,000 fires scorched the United States last year, and 2021 is on […]
California Wildfires Cover 1 Million Acres In A Week As Storms Expected To Fan Flames
California Wildfires Cover 1 Million Acres In A Week As Storms Expected To Fan Flames In the course of just one week, wildfires blazing across the state of California have burned through nearly one million acres statewide, destroying hundreds of homes ahead of an expected storm system heading toward the state that could bring more […]
“Dire Circumstances”: Aussie Wildfires Intensify After Killing Half A Billion Animals; Record Numbers Evacuate
“Dire Circumstances”: Aussie Wildfires Intensify After Killing Half A Billion Animals; Record Numbers Evacuate The brushfires raging across Australia which have killed an estimated 480 million animals have intensified over the last 12 hours, according to NASA, causing a record number of residents evacuate as forecasters predict worsening conditions. Authorities on Friday urged evacuations for Australians living in […]
State Of Emergency Declared In NSW Australia As Deadly Bushfires Rage; Military Deployed
State Of Emergency Declared In NSW Australia As Deadly Bushfires Rage; Military Deployed A seven-day state of emergency has been called in the Australian state of New South Wales amid raging wildfires that have killed eight people in the region since Monday, including volunteer firefighters, according to officials. Military helicopters and naval vessels have been […]
Countries from Siberia to Australia are burning: the age of fire is the bleakest warning yet
Countries from Siberia to Australia are burning: the age of fire is the bleakest warning yet It is time not only to think the unthinkable, but to speak it: the world economy, civilisation, and maybe our survival as a species are on the line On any day, between 10,000 and 30,000 bushfires burn around the […]
California’s Blackouts Are Part Of A Far Bigger Problem
California’s Blackouts Are Part Of A Far Bigger Problem This past weekend, Pacific Gas & Electric had to resume electricity blackouts to 930,000 customers affecting upwards of three million people around San Francisco. Meanwhile, two major wildfires, one of which may have been caused by malfunctioning utility equipment, are burning and evacuations are underway. PG&E has informed […]
“Diablo Winds” Are Ferociously Whipping “Out Of Control” Wildfires Across Vast Stretches Of Northern California
“Diablo Winds” Are Ferociously Whipping “Out Of Control” Wildfires Across Vast Stretches Of Northern California Why does this keep happening to California year after year? As you read this article, enormous wildfires are ravaging large portions of northern California, and Governor Gavin Newsom has already declared a statewide emergency. An extreme wind event that began […]
California Fires Spark Massive Mandatory Evacuations; Wineries Burn As Winds Hit 93 MPH
California Fires Spark Massive Mandatory Evacuations; Wineries Burn As Winds Hit 93 MPH California’s annual wildfires are back despite a series of planned power outages aimed at preventing them – the latest of which is expected to affect as many as 3 million people across huge swaths of the state. The most intense fires raged […]
The open Amazon and its enemies: a call for action and optimism
The open Amazon and its enemies: a call for action and optimism The Amazon, now on fire, has become the central political and geopolitical hot spot for humanity’s right to its own future. Optimism is the gasoline that must feed the fight. June and July have been the hottest months on record in the Western […]
The Amazon Inferno
The Amazon Inferno One of the lasting highlights of my teaching at the University of New Orleans in 1991-1992 was my travel to Brazil in January 1992 for a conference on climate change. This was a rehearsal for the June 1992 Earth Summit on Climate Change in Rio. My conference took place in Fortaleza, a […]
Rainforest on Fire
RAINFOREST ON FIRE On the Front Lines of Bolsonaro’s War on the Amazon, Brazil’s Forest Communities Fight Against Climate Catastrophe THE RIVER BASIN at the center of Latin America called the Amazon is roughly the size of Australia. Created at the beginning of the world by a smashing of tectonic plates, it was the cradle of […]
