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Why Is The Weather So Crazy All Of A Sudden?
Why Is The Weather So Crazy All Of A Sudden? All over the planet, global weather patterns have gone completely nuts. Just over the past few days we have seen “life threatening” heatwaves, extremely dangerous wildfires, vicious tornadoes and unprecedented flooding – and that is just in the United States. And of course this is […]
Wildfire Nears Canada’s Major Oil Sands Plants
Wildfire Nears Canada’s Major Oil Sands Plants A massive wildfire raging through the northern part of Alberta has swelled in size and surged north of Fort McMurray, destroying an evacuated oil sands camp on Tuesday and it is projected to encroach on major facilities shortly. The flames consumed a 665-room oil-sands work camp north of […]
Welcome To Hell: The Giant Fort McMurray Fire Is The Worst Blaze In Canadian History
Welcome To Hell: The Giant Fort McMurray Fire Is The Worst Blaze In Canadian History The gigantic wildfire that has forced the evacuation of the entire city of Fort McMurray in northern Alberta has been nicknamed “the Beast“, and mainstream news reports are telling us that it is now approximately 25 percent larger than New […]
A New Global Tinderbox: The World’s Northern Forests
A New Global Tinderbox: The World’s Northern Forests Rapidly rising temperatures, changes in precipitation, and increased lightning strikes are leading to ever-larger wildfires in the northern forests of Alaska, Canada, and Siberia, with potentially severe ecological consequences. Ted Schuur has spent the better part of his career making the connection between climate change and wildfires that […]
Why Logging Forests After Wildfires is Ecologically Destructive
Why Logging Forests After Wildfires is Ecologically Destructive California Spotted Owl. Photo: USFS. When it comes to wildfire, the U.S. Forest Service has it all wrong. In its just-released plan to chop down trees in nearly 17,000 acres hit by last year’s King fire in the Eldorado National Forest – including logging in 28 occupied […]
With Climate Change, a Terrifying New Normal for Western Firefighters
With Climate Change, a Terrifying New Normal for Western Firefighters In the last two decades, officials in Colorado have watched as massive, months-long wildfires have become a regular occurrence in their state. A Yale Environment 360 video goes onto the front lines with Colorado firefighters who describe what it’s like to continuously confront deadly blazes fueled […]
B.C. fires: More than 100 new wildfires in 24 hours
B.C. fires: More than 100 new wildfires in 24 hours Lightning, heat and high winds combine to create challenging conditions for firefighters In just 24 hours, 115 new wildfires have flared up across B.C. — most of them in the Kamloops area and the southeast part of the province. “Lightning was a huge driver of increased fire activity yesterday […]
B.C. wildfire forces evacuation near Shelter Cove area of West Kelowna
B.C. wildfire forces evacuation near Shelter Cove area of West Kelowna Darkness preventing helicopter or air tanker support from effectively assisting firefighters Fire crews and officials scrambled to keep residents safe from a quickly spreading blaze near Westside Road in West Kelowna, B.C., which has so far destroyed at least one home. The wildfire was sparked by lightning on Sunday […]
Metro Vancouver air quality comparable to Beijing
Metro Vancouver air quality comparable to Beijing Health authorities advise caution due to smoke from hundreds of wildfires across B.C. Smoke from wildfires in the Interior of British Columbia blankets the Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver. Health officials in the province have issued air quality warnings as a result of the fires. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press) […]
Another Reason To Move Away From California: ‘Conditions Are Like A Third-World Country’
Another Reason To Move Away From California: ‘Conditions Are Like A Third-World Country’ As if anyone actually neededanother reason to move out of the crazy state of California, now it is being reported that conditions in some areas of the state “are like a third-world country” due to the multi-year megadrought that has hit the state. […]
