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“#10 tips for coping with wildfire smoke, from a public health expert” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Wildfires have burned millions of acres in the western United States this year. Tens of thousands have been evacuated and thousands of buildings and other structures destroyed. Thick smoke blankets much of the region—coloring the skies red and orange—and…
“#Decreasing wildfires observed over Central Africa” Satellite imagery of Africa. Credit: Public Domain Referred to as the “fire continent” by NASA, Africa is surprisingly a crucial hot spot for blazes. Global satellite images have shown that on an average August day, it is home to at least 70 percent of the 10,000 wildfires burning worldwide…
“#Europe’s primary forests: What to protect? What to restore?” Primary forests are crucial for biodiversity conservation and store high quantities of carbon in biomass, therefore helping to mitigate climate change. Credit: Tzvetan Zlatanov Primary forests are forests without any signs of past human use and where ecological processes are not disrupted by human influence. These…
“#Smoke from US fires reaches Europe, satellite data shows” Smoke from the deadly US wildfires has been observed as far as 8000 kilometres away Smoke from the fires devastating swathes of the US West Coast has reached as far as Europe, the European Union’s climate monitoring service said Wednesday in its assessment of the “unprecedented”…
“#Australia doubles down on fossil fuels, firing up critics” Prime Minister Scott Morrison has touted a fossil-fuelled recovery plan for Australia’s coronavirus-hit economy The Australian government’s plan for a “gas-fired recovery” of its coronavirus-hit economy ignited fears Wednesday that it would lock in fossil fuel dependence for another generation in a country already ravaged by…
“#Brown Danube: How Belgrade’s sewers taint Europe’s famous river” Around a third of Belgrade has no connection to drainage systems and instead relies on the septic tanks that the trucks empty straight into the rivers Just down the road from Belgrade’s historic city centre, gates open for trucks to pass to the banks of the…
“#As Brazil’s wetlands burn, rain is ‘only hope’” Brazil’s Pantanal—the world’s biggest tropical wetlands—is suffering its worst fires in more than 47 years Lieutenant Silva’s face is grim as he watches his firefighters try—and fail—to control one of the thousands of wildfires ravaging Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s biggest tropical wetlands. “It needs to rain. We’ve…
“#Water shortages in US West likelier than previously thought” This March 26, 2019, file photo, shows a bathtub ring of light minerals showing the high water mark of the reservoir which has shrunk to its lowest point on the Colorado River, as seen from the Hoover Dam, Ariz. Six states in the U.S. West that…
“#Hurricane Sally gains strength as it nears southern US” Sally is one of five tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean—a phenomenon only recorded once before, in September 1971, according to meteorologists Hurricane Sally picked up strength as it edged towards the US Gulf Coast early Wednesday, with forecasts of drenching rains that could provoke “historic”…
“#Winds kick up century old volcanic ash in Alaska” While western U.S. states were suffering from hazy red skies from wildfires, Alaska was dealing with an air quality problem born a century ago. Strong southerly winds picked up loose ash from a 1912 volcanic eruption, sending an ash cloud about 4,000 feet (1,219 meters) into…