Tag: fire
Firefighter shortage across US poses ‘dangerous’ risks as peak wildfire season...
The country’s fire managers moved its response to “Preparation Level 4,” the second-highest designation, which shows that firefighting resources are heavily committed.
California’s bold move to hold Big Oil accountable for climate disasters
New bill aims to shift wildfire recovery costs from taxpayers to fossil fuel companies.
Elon Musk shouts fire firefighters in a crowded theater!
As in Musk's idiotic claim, the arguments against Affirmative Action and DEI are riddled with lies and tinged with racism and sexism.
Animal protection organizations provide life-saving aid for animals in LA fires
In Defense Animal Rescue is helping to support animal rescuers and provide life-saving aid for animals affected by the crisis.
Landlords evicted Maui residents and housed wildfire survivors for more money....
When the agency inked contracts with private companies to identify homes they could rent for survivors, it didn’t prohibit them from signing up properties that had been occupied by long-term residents.
Wildfires could be pumping 3x more soot to the Arctic than...
The new findings are an example of how the impacts of the climate crisis build on each other.
Smoke from western wildfires to spread as far as New York
Wildfire smoke is a problem because it contributes to air pollution.
The climate flames come for us all
This month’s western megafires have burned millions of acres and upended countless lives. It’s a sign of things to come if we don’t start to listen and act.
Suicide watch on Planet Earth
Even for an old man like me, it’s a terrifying thing to watch humanity make a decision, however inchoate, to essentially commit suicide.
How white colonizers set us up for uncontrollable wildfires
"I want us to go humbly to the very people our culture tried to exterminate to listen to what they can teach us. "
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Make corporate complicity unprofitable: Gen Z campaign launches boycott of companies tied to ICE
As Trump intensifies immigration crackdowns, a new boycott movement targets the corporations supplying ICE with infrastructure, technology, and access to consumers.
Where’s the resistance to the Iran war?
A majority of Americans already oppose the war in Iran, but the bombs won’t stop until public opinion is converted into real pressure.
UNICEF warns child casualties are becoming catastrophic as evidence grows in Iran school bombing
More than 1,100 children have been killed or wounded across the Middle East since the United States and Israel launched war on Iran while investigations point to outdated intelligence behind the Minab school strike.
Democrats’ last major obstacle to defeating MAGA for good
If all Americans regardless of their political beliefs, racial backgrounds, and economic standing were required to serve together and learn from each other to achieve a goal as a cohesive unit, it could be what helps future generations heal from the division that’s plaguing our political system.
For once in our lives
Are we right again?