#WeDontHaveTime #Politics #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateEmergency #TomorrowIsTooLate #GlobalWarming #Environment #GlobalBoiling #PointOfNoReturn
Source: https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-wildfire-maui-lahaina-f5a7047d407f836f89e90dd7f10faa94
The #fires were whipped by strong winds from #Hurricane #Dora passing far to the south. It’s the latest in a series of disasters caused by extreme #weather around the globe this summer. Experts say #climate change is increasing the likelihood of such events.
https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2023/07/08/deadly-hazards-of-capitalism/
The #forest-fires in #Quebec and #Ontario originate disproportionately in “ #managed-forest,” which are on the continuum of #tree #plantations.
#canada #wildfires #global #heat #toxic #smoke #air-quality #pollution #health #risks #drought #wind #herbicides #climatechange #environment #boreal #forest #ecosystem #monoculture #ecology #capitalism #profit-system
Song for the day....
Insightful, funny, clever, and meant to warn.... way back when.
This song is ripe, from the wonderful Tom Lehrer:
## Pollution
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"Time was when an American about to go abroad would be warned by his friends or the guidebooks not to drink the water. But times have changed, and now a foreigner coming to this country might be offered the following advice:
If you visit American city,"
You will find it very pretty.
Just two things of which you must beware:
Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air!
Beyond just (North) America. Humans impacting the once-pristine and beautiful, sustainable world.
#Pollution #global #climate #AirQuality #hurricanes #wildfires #environment #ecosystem
#wildfires
Photograph. Utah
Wildfire Smoke From Canada Hits East Coast US.
This is the way Utah gets during Wildfire Season - especially in Downtown Salt Lake City where I live. Very Bad Air Quality.
Utah often ranks as #1 Bad Air Quality in America. Ugghhhhh!
Most of the Western US Wildfires are caused by stupid humans.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/wildfire-smoke/?id=99885122
Hello sun... if you can see it.
Brightest part of the day today, midtown Manhattan (NYC)
Holy smoke!
AQI in NY now: 242! (above 150 is dangerous) ["very unhealthy"[
Seeing New Yorkers wearing masks outside again... smart. Advice is still "stay indoors". Not at all hot out, just... stinky & thick.
#myphoto #Canada #wildfires #AQI #climate #NYC #NewYork #AirQuality #smoke
Mapping the fires and their consequences.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/alberta-wildfires-map-1.6838361
#Alberta #wildfires #ClimateDerangement #mapmaking #cartography #smoke #ecologicaleffects #Canada #NorthAmerica
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/05/canada-wildfires-thousands-evacuate-fox-lake-fire
“This is significantly more #wildfire activity for this time of year than we have seen any time in the recent past,” Tucker told a press conference, adding fires were expected to intensify on Friday.
#forest #fire #nature #environment #climate #problem #news #disaster #America
👨🚒 Despite torrential rains drenching large parts of #France 🇫🇷, wildfires in #Portugal 🇵🇹 and #Spain 🇪🇸 continue to rage. Portugal has lost 85,000 hectares of land—or about 1% of the country—to #wildfires this summer, amounting to the highest proportion in #Europe.
Swapping sirens for bells and equipped with voracious appetites, Barcelona’s newest firefighting recruits began delicately picking past hikers and cyclists in the city’s largest public park earlier this year. The four-legged brigade – made up of 290 sheep and goats – had just one task: to munch on as much vegetation as possible.
source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/03/mckinney-fire-california-yreka-rain-heat-deaths
Scientists have said #climate #change has made the west warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and #wildfires more frequent and destructive.
#USA #problem #environment #future #news #disaster #society #politics #heatwave
With more than 25,000 hectares destroyed by blazes throughout July, the fires in Gironde, Brittany and the Ardèche have one thing in common: They were started deliberately.
yup.
#wildfires
There is an imperative for fire agencies to quantify the potential for prescribed burning to mitigate risk to life, property and environmental values while facing changing climates. The 2019–2020 Black Summer fires in eastern Australia raised questions about the effectiveness of prescribed burning in mitigating risk under unprecedented fire conditions. We performed a simulation experiment to test the effects of different rates of prescribed burning treatment on risks posed by wildfire to life, property and infrastructure. In four forested case study landscapes, we found that the risks posed by wildfire were substantially higher under the fire weather conditions of the 2019–2020 season, compared to the full range of long-term historic weather conditions. For area burnt and house loss, the 2019–2020 conditions resulted in more than a doubling of residual risk across the four landscapes, regardless of treatment rate (mean increase of 230%, range 164–360%). Fire managers must prepare for a higher level of residual risk as climate change increases the likelihood of similar or even more dangerous fire seasons.
🙈 MEGHALAYA’S LIVING ROOT BRIDGES FIND A SPOT IN UNESCO’S TENTATIVE LIST
🙈 ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE THROUGH INDIAN AIRPORTS THREATENS CONSERVATION
🙈 J&K’S WILDLIFE PROTECTION DEPT EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER DWINDLING ‘TURTLE DOVE’ NUMBERS
🙈 CARELESSNESS, LACK OF PROMPT ACTION BEHIND REGULAR FOREST FIRES IN PURULIA: W. BENGAL
🙈 ACTION COWS DYING IN ‘GO-SHALAS’, SOP PREPARED TO RUN SHELTERS: ASSAM MINISTER
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#conservation #environment #india #airports #animaltrade #assam #conservation #cow #ecology #environmentind #forest #forestfires #forests #illegalwildlifetrade #jammukashmir #livingroots #meghalaya #news #puruliaforest #saveforest #savecows #traffic #turtledove #unesco #unescotentativelist #westbengal #wildfires #wildlife #wildlifetrade #wildlifetrafficking #wildlifetrade
● NEWS ● #TruthOut #Wildfires ☞ #Climate Crisis Fuels Late-December Wildfires Ravaging Colorado https://truthout.org/articles/climate-crisis-fuels-late-december-wildfires-ravaging-colorado/
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