Articles 2020

Quelque 1 400 sapeurs-pompiers sont mobilisés. Environ 200 personnes sont soumises à un ordre d’évacuation en raison de l’avancée des flammes, qui menacent également 50 bâtiments.

Aucune victime n’a été déclarée pour le moment mais les premières évacuations commencent à être ordonnées. Le «Madre Fire» intervient alors que l’administration Trump coupe dans les budgets des agences environnementales.

Brazil records 62% jump in area burned by forest fires: monitor

Avec la prolifération des drones sur les champs de bataille modernes, les armées du monde entier cherchent des moyens efficaces pour contrer cette menace agile, bon marché… et potentiellement mortelle. En France, une nouvelle arme se prépare à entrer en service, et elle promet de faire le ménage dans les airs : le Rapidfire Land, un système de défense anti-aérienne développé par Thales et KNDS France, qui s’attaque aux essaims de drones, aux hélicoptères, aux avions légers — et même aux roquettes et mortiers.

Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new contentA major US government website supporting public education on climate science looks likely to be shuttered after almost all of its staff were fired, the Guardian has learned.

Toxic pollution from wildfires has infiltrated the homes of more than a billion people a year over the last two decades, according to new research. The climate crisis is driving up the risk of wildfires by increasing heatwaves and droughts, making the issue of wildfire smoke a “pressing global issue”, scientists said.

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Human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires, a scientific study found. But the myriad of causes that go into the still smoldering fires are complex, so the level of global warming's fingerprints on weeks of burning appears relatively small compared to previous studies of killer heat waves, floods and droughts by the international team at World Weather Attribution. Tuesday's report, too rapid for peer-review yet, found global warming boosted the likelihood of high fire weather conditions in this month's fires by 35% and its intensity by 6%.

Wildfires that blazed around the world in 2024 helped to drive a record annual leap in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, surprising scientists. The data shows humanity is moving yet deeper into a dangerous world of supercharged extreme weather.

The multibillion-dollar chemicals company 3M told customers its firefighting foams were harmless and biodegradable when it knew they contained toxic substances so persistent they are now known as “forever chemicals” and banned in many countries including the UK, newly uncovered documents show.

Face à l'avancée du "Mountain fire", un incendie qui a déjà consumé près de 8 100 hectares depuis mercredi, des milliers de personnes ont été invitées à évacuer vers les collines du nord-ouest de la région de Los Angeles, en Californie.

Extreme heat affecting nearly 23m people across US south-west and pushing Texas’s electrical grid to the limit.

SAO PAULO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region surged to a record high for the month of July in almost two decades, government data showed on Thursday, amid a drought in the region fanned by climate change. The Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, plays a vital role in curbing global warming because of the vast amounts of greenhouse gas it absorbs.

Unprecedented wildfires in Canada and parts of Amazonia last year were at least three times more likely due to climate change and contributed to high levels of CO2 emissions from burning globally, according to the first edition of a new systematic annual review.

L’Etat de l’ouest américain est de nouveau en proie à un mégafeu depuis le 24 juillet, qui a déjà calciné plus de 150 000 hectares.

L’incendie est le septième plus important de toute l’histoire de cet Etat de l’Ouest américain. Il a contraint plus de 4 000 personnes à évacuer.

Un incendie incontrôlable dans le nord de la Californie est devenu en trois jours l'un des plus importants jamais enregistrés dans cet État de l'ouest des États-Unis. Le "Park Fire" a déjà dévoré plus de 142.000 hectares, ce qui en fait le septième plus gros incendie de l'histoire de cet État, a déclaré samedi l'agence étatique Cal Fire.

The wildfire destruction to Jasper National Park has reverberated across all of Canada.

« J’étais effrayé », raconte un octogénaire, qui a dû quitter sa maison. Depuis le 5 juillet, de violents incendies touchent l’ouest des États-Unis, en particulier la Californie. Des dizaines de milliers de personnes ont été évacuées.

Blackened trees, dead animals and scorched earth – early wildfires have already devastated Brazil’s Pantanal and local people worry they may lose the battle to save them

Scientists warn of ‘scary’ feedback loop in which fires create more heating, which causes more fires worldwide

La pêche serait la première responsable de la perte de biodiversité marine. Arrêter de manger du poisson serait alors la meilleure solution.

Christopher Lockyear, secretary general of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), called today on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to demand an immediate and sustained ceasefire in Gaza. Addressing the Council at its monthly meeting on Gaza, Lockyear also called for the unequivocal protection of medical facilities, staff, and patients. “Meeting after meeting, resolution after resolution, this body has failed to effectively address this conflict,” Lockyear said. “We have watched members of this Council deliberate and delay while civilians die. This death, destruction, and forced displacement are the result of military and political choices that blatantly disregard civilian lives. These choices could have been—and still can be—made very differently.” After more than four months of war, nearly 30,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza amid Israel’s constant bombing and attacks. Approximately 1.7 million people—nearly 75 percent of the population—are estimated to be forcibly displace

If you've ever seen the movie Soylent Green, you know it's not about cannibalism. It's about the banality of social collapse. It's not quick. It's a slow burn. Nobody shows any sense of urgency about anything. Everyone still watches talk shows, even if they have to pedal a bike to generate electricity for their television. Nobody under 50 remembers anything better. Here's the plot twist: It's not that corporations are using people as the main ingredient in everyone's favorite new food. It's

As we mark 100 days until the COP28 UN climate summit, the urgency of addressing the climate crisis has never been more palpable. Global failures to mitigate emissions and adapt to the impacts continue to wreak havoc on the planet, and we’re seeing this in a range of ways. Unprecedented extreme weather events have occurred with frightening regularity in 2023. In March, over 500 people lost their lives when Cyclone Freddy struck Malawi. Last month, flooding in the Philippines caused by Typhoons Doksuri and Khanun displaced more than 300,000 people, and the recent wildfires that ravaged Hawaii – in part exacerbated by climate change – continue to make for distressing headlines. This list is likely to become even longer by the end of the year, when COP28 gets underway in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Heatwaves, wildfires and floods are just the ‘tip of the iceberg’, leading climate scientists say

Three brush fires burning in rural areas across Riverside county, where 1,000 homes are under evacuation orders

Unearthly skies and unhealthy air resulting from Canadian wildfires may persist for days.

We can’t call these supercharged seasonal infernos our ‘new normal.’ There’s nothing natural about how we changed the Earth’s climate

n the UK, when climate activists want to block a road, they sit down on it. When their fellow activists in France want to do the same, they build a wall across one side, and set the other side on fire. As Extinction Rebellion drew tens of thousands to their peaceful “Big One” protests in London last month, in the south of France 8,500 environmental protesters occupied the road from Toulouse to the town of Castres.

Carbon dioxide emissions from wildfires, which have been gradually increasing since 2000, spiked drastically to a record high in 2021, according to an international team of researchers led by Earth system scientists at the University of California, Irvine.

Energy prices are rocketing, inflation is soaring and millions are being starved of grain. Surely Johnson knew this would happen?

Après avoir parcouru quelque 6 800 hectares de végétation, le "Oak Fire" continuait, lundi, de se propager à un rythme toujours "très rapide" dans le centre de la Californie, aux États-Unis. L'incendie n'est contenu qu'à hauteur de 10 % et menace quelques milliers d'habitations.

Un feu de forêt destructeur près du parc Yosemite, qui continue de grossir de manière incontrôlée, est en train de devenir l’un des plus grands incendies de l’année en Californie, obligeant des milliers de résidents à fuir. Mais les politiques semblent impuissants face à ce phénomène qui se répète.

Près de 6.800 hectares de forêt californienne ont déjà brûlé lors du passage du "Oak Fire", un incendie contenu seulement à hauteur de 10% et dont la progression est toujours "très rapide", ont indiqué lundi les pompiers.

Food supply expert paints grim global picture hunger 05.23.2022 By Arvin Donley NEW YORK, NEW YORK, US — Global wheat inventories currently stand at about 10 weeks of global consumption, a food supply expert said during a special meeting of the United Nations Security Council on May 19. Sara Menker, chief executive officer of Gro Intelligence, an organization that gathers and analyzes global food and agricultural data, said she disputes official government agency estimates that put global wheat inventories at 33% of annual consumption, countering inventories are closer to 20%. “It is important to note that the lowest grain inventory levels the world has ever seen are now occurring while access to fertilizers is highly constrained, and drought in wheat growing regions around the world is the most extreme it’s been in over 20 years,” Menker said. “Similar inventory concerns also apply to corn and other grains. Government estimates are not adding up.” Menker told the security council that while much of the blame

What else is new? Hotspots are getting hotter. The major hotspot in April stretched from Iraq to India and Pakistan, and toward the northeast through Russia (Fig. 1). Temperature exceeded 45°C (113°F) in late April in at least nine Indian cities,[1] on its way to 50°C (122°F) in Pakistan in May,[2] where a laborer says “It’s like fire burning all around” and a meteorologist describing growing heatwaves since 2015 says “The intensity is increasing, and the duration is increasing, and the frequency is increasing.” Halfway around the world, Canada and north-central United States were cooler than their long-term average, but people in British Columbia and northwest United States remember being under their own record-breaking hotspot last summer.

A Russian former foreign minister has joined a call for all sides in the Ukrainian war to return to diplomacy and so reduce “the dramatically elevated risk” of a nuclear conflict. The appeal co-authored by Prof Igor Ivanov, now the president of the Russian International Affairs Council, may be a sign that some in the Russian foreign policy establishment believe that pursuing a purely military solution in Ukraine is a strategic mistake.

The ground, typically moist from snow this time of year, was dry and flammable as a result of unusually warm temperatures and a lack of precipitation in recent months, experts said.

When we call for help because of a house fire, we don’t expect the fire department to say that we should wait until it has that great new fire truck with better hoses. We don’t expect the firemen to tell us their jackets aren’t quite fireproof so they can’t help.