#Battle on to save Brazil’s tropical wetlands from flames

“#Battle on to save Brazil’s tropical wetlands from flames” A jaguar crouches on an area recently scorched by wildfires at the Encontro das Aguas park in the Pantanal wetlands near Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020. Firefighters, troops and volunteers have been scrambling to find and rescue jaguars and other animals before…

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#Smoke chokes West Coast as wildfire deaths keep climbing

“#Smoke chokes West Coast as wildfire deaths keep climbing” by Andrew Selsky and Lindsay Whitehurst A fire engine from the Idanha-Detroit Rural Fire Protection District sits on Detroit Avenue Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, in Detroit, Ore. The engine was destroyed on Wednesday when the Lionshead Fire over-ran the resort community of Detroit, Ore., merging with…

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#US gears for rising death toll in West Coast wildfires

“#US gears for rising death toll in West Coast wildfires” The afternoon sun is seen through a smoke-filled sky over fire-ravaged property in the Fresno County community of Pine Ridge in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California US officials girded Saturday for the possibility of mass fatalities from raging wildfires up and…

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#Sri Lanka navy plugs fuel leak on fire-stricken tanker

“#Sri Lanka navy plugs fuel leak on fire-stricken tanker” Sri Lanka’s environmental authorities still fear a marine disaster Sri Lankan military divers fixed a fuel leak from the engine of a fire-damaged oil tanker off the island’s east coast, the navy said Saturday, in a salvage operation after the huge week-long blaze. While the navy…

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#NASA satellite finds a wedge-shaped Tropical Storm Paulette

“#NASA satellite finds a wedge-shaped Tropical Storm Paulette” On Sept. 11 at 12:35 a.m. EDT (0435 UTC), the MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite revealed a small area of the most powerful thunderstorms (yellow) around Paulette’s center where cloud top temperatures were as cold as minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 62.2 Celsius). A…

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#New worry over August deforestation in Brazilian Amazon

“#New worry over August deforestation in Brazilian Amazon” A women hangs clothes in the Juma Sustainable Development Reserve, deep in Brazil’s Amazon, which lost 1,359 square kilometers (525 square miles) to deforestation in August 2020 Last month was the second-worst August on record for deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to official figures released Friday,…

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