WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today announced the immediate availability of $3 million in … [continued]
Thousands of people in Quebec, Canada evacuated their homes this month due to raging wildfires. More than 400 miles away, … [continued]
Fireworks start over 19,000 fires and send over 9,000 people to the ER each year in the United States.
Not only is the fire season longer, wildfires are burning larger areas more severely and at higher elevations. The average acreage that has burned every year since 2000—7 million—is more than double the annual average of 3.3 million acres in the 1990s,
Brooklyn (NY) — First Street Foundation today released the First Street Foundation Wildfire Model, the only nationwide, probabilistic, climate adjusted, peer reviewed, … [continued]
“There’s a toxic peer culture on climate neglect. Five to 10 years from now, they won’t believe the silence we’re seeing right now.”
As British Columbia reels from the worst fire season in its recorded history, it is easy to look upon this as a local problem. but much of Oregon is wrapped in smoke, there are reports of ash falling like snow in some Washington cities and two days ago a state of emergency was declared in Los Angeles.
Here’s some more top news of the week (other than what we’ve published and what was included in our … [continued]
