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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.

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.

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.

Forests have historically acted as a reliable planetary thermostat. They regulate Earth’s temperature by removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and locking it in trees, roots and soil — carbon that is emitted if trees are cut down. In a typical year, forests and other vegetation absorb roughly 30% of the carbon that humans emit from burning fossil fuels — a vital climate service performed at virtually no cost by trees around the world, from tropical rainforests to temperate and boreal forests.

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.

Adam Greenfield author of Lifehouse, Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire. A Lifehouse is an institution at the heart of each neighborhood that responds to the terrifying reality of climate collapse in our own communities.In this book Adam Greenfield, recovers lessons from the Black Panther survival programs, the astonishingly effective Occupy Sandy disaster-relief effort and the solidarity networks of crisis-era Greece, as well as municipalist Spain and autonomous Rojava, to show how practices of mutual care and local power can help shelter us from a future that often feels like it has no place for us...

In this book Adam Greenfield, author of Radical Technologies, recovers lessons from the Black Panther survival programs, the astonishingly effective Occupy Sandy disaster-relief effort and the solidarity networks of crisis-era Greece, as well as municipalist Spain and autonomous Rojava, to show how practices of mutual care and local power can help shelter us from a future that often feels like it has no place for us or the values we cherish.

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