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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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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.