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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

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

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).

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Black Summer forest fires of 2019–2020 burned more than 24 million hectares, directly causing 33 deaths and almost 450 more from smoke inhalation. But were these fires unprecedented? You might remember sceptics questioning the idea that the Black Summer fires really were worse than conflagrations like the 1939 Black Friday fires in Victoria.

Climate change has turbocharged severe storms, fires, hurricanes, coastal storms and floods — threatening millions

Des milliers de personnes ont reçu l’ordre d’évacuer, lundi 30 août, la rive sud du lac Tahoe, en Californie, une zone très touristique menacée par l’approche d’un incendie qui dévaste la région depuis plus de deux semaines.

Les résidents du comté de San Bernardino, à une centaine de km de Los Angeles (Californie), ont reçu l’ordre d’évacuer alors qu’un nouveau feu de forêt met en péril un millier d’habitants, a indiqué mercredi (heure locale) le service d’incendie de Californie, Cal Fire. Selon Cal Fire, environ 600 bâtiments sont menacés par les flammes.

C’est, de l’avis de pompiers et de spécialistes, un des pires incendies qu’ait jamais connu la Californie. Avec des conditions météorologiques qui ne devraient pas s’améliorer dans les prochains jours, le pire est à craindre.

Au UAS, le gigantesque Dixie Fire, devenu dimanche le deuxième plus vaste incendie de l'histoire de la Californie, a désormais détruit plus de 1.045 structures, dont 550 maisons, selon le récent bilan des autorités. Plus de 16.000 autres structures sont aussi en danger et les pompiers restent en alerte pour de nombreuses autres communautés.

Le bilan tiré par les pompiers le 9 août indiquait que près de 187.000 hectares avait déjà été réduit en cendres par Dixie Fire. Si ce chiffre ne vous parle pas, sachez que cela représente quelques 1800 km²... soit la moitié de la superficie du Hainaut environ ou presque deux fois la superficie du Brabant Wallon (1097 km²).

Dit jaar zien we wereldwijd enorme branden die land, bos en gemeenschappen verwoesten. Waarom komen deze catastrofale branden steeds vaker voor en wat zijn de gevolgen? Hoogleraar Fire and Global Change Victor Resco de Dios: ‘Welkom in een nieuw tijdperk van bosbranden.’

Le gigantesque Dixie Fire, devenu dimanche le deuxième plus vaste incendie de l’histoire de la Californie, devrait perdurer pendant encore au moins une dizaine de jours, faisant fuir des milliers de personnes tandis que trois habitants manquaient toujours à l’appel.

Le gigantesque brasier n’a fait que grossir depuis la mi-juillet, attisé par une chaleur étouffante, une sécheresse alarmante et des vents continus.

Le gigantesque brasier, le troisième plus grand feu de l'histoire de la Californie a dévasté cette semaine les commerces et habitations de la petite ville de Greenville, ainsi que le village de Canyondam. Il a déjà dévoré plus de 180 00 hectares dans quatre comtés depuis qu'il s'est déclaré mi-juillet, et selon le site des pompiers californiens, il n'a pu être contenu que sur 21% de sa surface.

En trois semaines, l’incendie a parcouru tellement de terrain qu’il s’est hissé sur le podium des feux les plus importants connus dans l’Etat californien, de plus en plus confronté aux graves sécheresses à cause du changement climatique.

La sécheresse prolongée, dont les scientifiques estiment qu'elle est liée au changement climatique, a rendu l'ouest des Etats-Unis particulièrement vulnérable à ces feux très destructeurs.

L’incendie, étendu à plus de 110 000 hectares, a ravagé dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi la localité, la population ayant évacué quelques heures auparavant.

Quelque 2000 habitants de Californie ont été appelés mercredi à évacuer "immédiatement" leurs domiciles, à l'approche du Dixie Fire, le plus grand incendie de Californie cette année, attisé par des vents violents.

Incendies de forêt gigantesques, canicules, sécheresse, tempêtes tropicales et hivernales. Les Etats-Unis sont victimes de catastrophes naturelles à répétition. Mais est-ce la faute du changement climatique ? Certaines agences nationales américaines font le lien et prévoient de lourdes conséquences sur l’économie américaine.

Le plus grand feu de l'année 2021 en Californie. Depuis le 14 juillet, le feu de forêt appelé "Dixie Fire" fait rage dans le nord de la Californie. Mardi, sa taille avait déjà atteint celle de la ville de Chicago. Mais ce qui rend extrêmement difficile le travail des secouristes est un phénomène météorologique particulier : le feu s'auto-alimente. "Le Dixie Fire est si gros qu'il a déjà créé ces derniers jours des nuages appelés pyrocumulus qui provoquent foudre, vents violents et alimentent en retour l'incendie", exlique la météorologue américaine Julia Ruthford à AFP.

The Bootleg Fire is raging through a project in southern Oregon, where 400,000 acres of forest owned by Green Diamond Resource Co. are being preserved to compensate for greenhouse gas emissions elsewhere. Microsoft in February paid Green Diamond to offset a quarter million tons of the tech giant’s 2021 carbon emissions.Two other wildfires are active within a Colville Indian Reservation carbon project in eastern Washington.

Le Dixie Fire, dans les forêts du nord de la Californie, ne fait que grossir depuis la mi-juillet et a déjà dévoré une surface de végétation équivalente à la ville de Chicago.

Le plus gros incendie de Californie, qui a déjà dévoré l'équivalent de la ville de Chicago en végétation, est si volumineux qu'il génère désormais son propre climat, au risque de rendre la tâche des pompiers qui le combattent encore plus ardue lundi.

Le plus gros incendie de Californie, qui a déjà dévoré l'équivalent de la ville de Chicago en végétation, est si volumineux qu'il génère désormais son propre climat, au risque de rendre la tâche des pompiers qui le combattent encore plus ardue lundi.

Le Bootleg Fire. Rien ne semble pouvoir l'arrêter. D'autant que le voici qui se met à générer sa propre météo au-dessus de l'Oregon. Des orages secs qui le rendent encore plus virulent.

This is Why it Feels Like We Might Not Have a Future Anymore. The truth is that we’re probably way past the point of no return. Every thoughtful mind can see the writing on the wall. Experts, like me, can weight in with facts. Ecologists will tell you that mass annihilation is going to rip us apart, too. Climate scientists will tell you it hasn’t been this hot for millions of years, and every year, the temperature goes up by the equivalent in bio-geological time, of a few million years.

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On the first day of summer, I woke up to the acrid smell of hot tar. Even before my sleepy brain could name the source, my body tensed with anxiety: wildfire season was underway. Given the deepening drought and record-setting heat across most of the American west, this year’s fire season is widely predicted to be among the worst in recent memory – which is saying something, because last year’s was grotesque.

What could bring down the industrial civilization? Would it be global warming (fire) or resource depletion (ice)? At present, it may well be that depletion is hitting us faster. But, in the long run, global warming may hit us much harder. Maybe the fall of our civilization will be Fire AND ice.

Situated deep in the middle of Brazil, Xingu Indigenous Park encompasses some of the most biodiverse rainforest in the country and is home to dozens of Indigenous communities and a multitude of wildlife. It also sits in the country’s infamous “Arc of Deforestation,” a vast swath of land heavily degraded by industrial agriculture that stretches from one side of Brazil to the other and which is punctuated in just a few places by islands of protected forest.

CCS - Carbon Capture and Storage: A research brief published by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) concludes that the abrupt recent shutdown of the Petra Nova coal-fired carbon capture plant in Texas should be seen as a strong signal for investors to avoid such projects.