Tag: fires
Smoke from wildfires in the West harms more people in the...
The research underlines the widespread harms caused by wildfires, which are made worse by human-caused climate change, despite their localized acute destruction.
Australian telecommunications company pays phone bills for volunteer firefighters
"We want to do this to show our thanks to firefighters for their efforts in helping keep communities safe."
Record number of fires burning in Amazon rainforest
There are a record number of wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil's space agency has said. Their smoke is visible from space and shrouded the...
‘Unprecedented’ heat wave fueling Arctic fires made more than twice as...
"But equally there is no doubt that we can and should constrain the increasing likelihood of all kinds of extreme weather events by restricting greenhouse gas emissions as sharply as possible."
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What’s certain about results of the presidential election
While we don't know who the next president will be, some outcomes of the election can be foreseen.
How a 20th-century family planning agenda fueled the climate crisis
Broken child welfare policies have undermined political systems and destroyed the planetary ecosystem.
Netanyahu, Putin, and Trump: The three great threats to world peace and stability; all...
With the election on the horizon, America stands at a crossroads that will determine its fate going into the future.
New nuclear push latches on to climate change as reason for nuclear power
“The dirty secret is that nuclear power makes a substantial contribution to global warming. Nuclear power is actually a chain of highly energy-intense industrial processes.”
UN warns Gaza’s economic recovery could take 350 years under Israeli blockade
The UN warns that, should the blockade remain in place, GDP per capita will continue “to decline continuously and precipitously,” placing Gaza’s future in severe jeopardy.