Flux continu

La Belgique pourrait bien à l’avenir être confrontée à des feux de végétations et de forêts plus nombreux et plus intenses. Une menace sérieuse qui a mené à la création d’un réseau belge de lutte contre les feux de forêts : le "Belgian Wildfire Network".

Wildfires used to die down and even stop at night with cooler temperatures and increased humidity. But a study released Friday says climate change is making burning weather more around the clock in North America because night is becoming warmer and drier. Canadian fire scientists say potential burning hours for fires have increased 36% in the last 50 years. California now has about 550 more fire-friendly hours a year than it did in the 1970s. North American summer nights are warming faster than days, evening relief is evaporating for forests and that means the area of land burned is soaring.

Au Pentagone, le cœur central de l’armée américaine, où les militaires vivent en ce moment, est une valse de dirigeants. Le ministre américain de la guerre, Pete Hegseth, lui, dit vouloir mettre la force armée la plus puissante du monde à sa botte.

​"Extreme heatwaves like the one impacting the Western US this month are one of the catastrophic disasters these companies predicted their conduct would bring about," said Public Citizen.

Children’s developing lungs make them vulnerable to air pollution.

En partant de rien, une start-up privée ukrainienne a conçu et produit massivement, en très peu de temps, un drone à longue portée rivalisant avec le Shahed, l’arme avec laquelle la Russie bombarde quotidiennement le territoire ukrainien depuis trois ans.

US president’s son-in-law was instrumental in getting deal – which could bring him huge windfall if plan to redevelop Gaza ever comes to fruition […] For a man with no formal role in the White House, Jared Kushner last week literally took centre-stage as Donald Trump’s emissary to the Middle East. As the administration took a victory lap for hammering out a Gaza ceasefire last week, Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, stood in Tel Aviv’s ‘hostages square’, addressing a feverish crowd that had booed the mention of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and later broke into chants of: “Thank You Trump!”

Reports suggest the administration’s staffing cuts may be hampering its firefighting capabilities.

Extreme heat is breaking records around the world, with wildfires and poor air quality compounding the crisis, according to a report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released Thursday.

L’incendie, qui s’est déclaré jeudi après-midi dans une région montagneuse du sud de la Californie, se propage rapidement. Il a ravagé en quelques heures près de 2 000 hectares de végétation, selon un dernier bilan des autorités, diffusé vendredi matin.