A new UNICEF report released on Wednesday to coincide with World Children’s Day has found that eight times more children will experience extreme heatwaves globally by 2050. According to The State of the World’s Children 2024, three megatrends will have powerful impacts on the lives of children between now and midcentury, including the environmental and […]
A heat dome over Texas and the southwestern United States is baking more than 23 million people with some of the summer’s hottest temperatures, leading to heat advisories and warnings, Heat.gov said. Extreme temperatures were predicted to continue through the end of the week with record or near-record temperatures in some parts of New Mexico, […]
Last year’s record-breaking wildfires in Canada produced almost a decade’s worth of greenhouse gas emissions from wildfires in one season. According a new study co-led by University of East Anglia (UEA), the United Kingdom’s Met Office, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH), climate change […]
The August 2023 Maui wildfires were devastating for the Hawaiian island’s people, wildlife and flora, including a century-and-a-half-old banyan tree in the beach community of Lahaina. The historic town is celebrating the landmark’s recovery, as parts of the 151-year-old banyan tree have begun to regrow and are even thriving in Lahaina’s decimated waterfront district. “You […]
As wildfires become more frequent and intense, they’re creating raging thunderstorms that fuel them even further, making them much more difficult to fight. These pyrocumulonimbus clouds (pyroCbs) are caused when a wildfire’s intense heat and smoke create strong updrafts, where they condense and form clouds. Those clouds can then develop into fierce thunderstorms that ignite […]
Thousands of firefighters in California are battling the Park Fire in northern California after it doubled in size within 24 hours, reported Reuters. The massive wildfire is the sixth-largest in the state’s history, having burned 370,000 acres since it started on Wednesday, The New York Times reported. It had also destroyed more than 100 structures […]
In a lawsuit over the Maui wildfires of August 2023, Hawaiian Electric and other defendants have tentatively agreed to a settlement of more than $4 billion. The proposed deal, which has not yet received final approval, would settle the lawsuits of thousands of businesses and homeowners against the island’s utility, Hawaiian Electric, said people familiar […]
California officials discovered human remains in a burned Mendocino County home on July 8, reporting the state’s first death of an unusually devastating 2024 wildfire season. The woman is believed to be 66-year-old Dagmar Stankova, who was last seen using a garden hose to try to extinguish flames outside of her home, as The New […]
As of Thursday afternoon, the Thompson wildfire in northern California was contained enough for most of the roughly 17,000 residents who had been evacuated to return home. The fire began near Oroville on Tuesday, but was 46 percent contained as of Friday morning, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). […]
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