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- Is using a wood fire to heat being Green? Wed, 30 Jun 10, 1:02pmWe look at whether using a wood fire to heat your home is being really green or not.
- Arctic wildfires rage through Siberia Wed, 29 Jul 20, 2:30amThe earth's poles have made the news a lot this summer, and not for good reasons. Now, another awful update has hit, with Arctic wildfires burning out of control.[...]
- Koalas extinct? Hardly. “Nearly everything you have read or heard about koalas is wrong” Fri, 3 Jul 20, 5:34amSince Europeans arrived Koalas have been booming and busting The calls were out this week saying that koalas will be extinct in New South Wales in 30 years...
- Koalas extinct? Hardly. “Nearly everything you have read or heard about koalas, is wrong” Fri, 3 Jul 20, 5:34amSince Europeans arrived Koalas have been booming and busting The calls were out this week saying that koalas will be extinct in New South Wales in 30 years...
- PG&E pleads guilty to manslaughter in 2018 wildfire deaths Fri, 19 Jun 20, 3:30amUtility giant Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) pled guilty this week to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter and one felony count of unlawful fire starting, admitting its faulty power lines began a horrendous 2018 wildfire.[...]
- Off the charts: Bushfires may be 20 times more intense than the largest fires humans can control Mon, 27 Jan 20, 7:59pmTen times the fuel means 100 times the intensity Hardly anyone is talking about these numbers yet they show just how far beyond our control the pyroconvective firestorms are and why we need to be so much smarter at preventing...
- ABC says Arson = 1%. NSW police say 42% of fires are man-made. 9% are “natural”. Rest unknown. (So far) Fri, 24 Jan 20, 7:57pmIt’s an arson epidemic Holy Smoke Batman! An astonishing 12,000 fires have started in New South Wales since August. The police have investigated 1700 so far. Of those, fully 42% are described as “deliberately...
- 57 Bushfire Inquiries isn’t enough. We need one more for leaders to hide behind Mon, 20 Jan 20, 1:38pmBig Government strangles our ecosystems just like it strangles scientific research. Australia has had 57 bushfire inquiries since 1939. We knew what was coming and we knew how to stop it, and we’ve known for eighty...
- Skeptics win on fires: ABC quietly flips — suddenly it’s fire management not climate change to blame Tue, 10 Dec 19, 2:45amThis is how the paradigm changes. The old activism is quietly dropped down the memory hole… Buried in a save-the-koala story on ABC News tonight is an ABC journalist saying for the first time that it is “current...
- Skeptics win on fires: ABC quiet flip — suddenly it’s fire management not climate change to blame Tue, 10 Dec 19, 2:45amThis is how the paradigm changes. The old activism is quietly dropped down the memory hole… Buried in a save-the-koala story on ABC News tonight is an ABC journalist saying for the first time that it is “current...
- Witnesses say broken wind turbine caused several hundred acre fire Tue, 23 Jul 19, 1:00pmFrom KEPRTV by Megan Magensky Sunday, July 21st 2019 KLICKITAT COUNTY, Wash. — KLICKITAT COUNTY, Wash. — The Juniper Fire is now 40 percent contained, according to a press release. The fire is mostly burning in the...
- Thousands of animals have been displaced by California wildfires Thu, 15 Nov 18, 4:30amThe California wildfires are raging on, but humans aren’t the only ones in danger. Thousands of pets and farm animals have received attention in Northern and Southern California while over 400 square miles continue to burn....
- Wildfires and drought cause national forest closures in New Mexico and Colorado Thu, 14 Jun 18, 3:00amBlazes in Colorado closed the 1.8-million-acre San Juan National Forest this week. The 416 Fire is burning on 25,900 acres and is 15 percent contained, according to a June 13 Facebook post. Meanwhile, in New Mexico, the 1.6-million-acre...
- Wildfires spewing CO2 in Siberia and Russia could impact the whole planet Thu, 17 May 18, 4:30amWildfires are raging in Russia and Siberia, and they could have drastic consequences for the entire planet. Blazes burning in the Amur region since the start of 2018 have damaged an area around six times bigger than during...
- Wildfires in Siberia are emitting enough carbon to harm the entire planet Thu, 17 May 18, 4:30amWildfires are raging in Russia and Siberia, and they could have drastic consequences for the entire planet. Blazes burning in the Amur region since the start of 2018 have damaged an area around six times bigger than during...
- The largest fire in Greenland's history warns of an extreme future Sat, 14 Apr 18, 3:01amThe largest wildfire in Greenland's history burned bright last summer, a potential warning sign for a future rattled by catastrophic climate change. Scientists are concerned that Greenland's massive ice sheet may absorb...