Study links wildfire smoke to COVID case spikes and deaths
Smoke from last year’s West Coast wildfires was associated with almost 20,000 excess COVID-19 cases.
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Election 2021 is here — and young people are paying attention
The younger voters in Canada’s Sept. 20 election have particular needs they want addressed, not least a livable wage on an inhabitable planet, but the broader COVID-19 spending debate may eclipse them.
After UN climate report, individuals seek to cut carbon emissions
Young urban shepherd Lukas Janssens guides his flock among the graves in Schoonselhof, one of Belgium’s iconic cemeteries, knowing sheep are kinder to nature than lawnmowers.
Wind whips up growth in B.C. wildfires and hundreds evacuate
High winds intensified numerous wildfires burning in British Columbia, forcing more evacuation orders for residents in hundreds of homes late Sunday, says the BC Wildfire Service.
U.S. Forest Service puts a hard stop on controlled burns for wildfire control
The U.S. is determined to douse every wildfire burning in the western states..
Earth fries as July heat scorches records
Earth sizzled in July and became the hottest month in 142 years of recordkeeping, U.S. weather officials announced.
Fierce winds a 'direct threat to life'
Winds forecast to fan wildfires over the weekend in British Columbia are a "direct threat to life and property," a BC Wildfire Service official says.
Hot, windy weather working against B.C. firefighters
High temperatures, low humidity and an increase in winds are making wildfire conditions challenging in southern British Columbia, says the provincial deputy forests minister.
Greek PM calls this summers wildfires a major ecological catastrophe
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday, August 12, 2021, that the devastating wildfires that burned across the country for more than a week were the greatest ecological catastrophe Greece had seen in decades.
Fire danger high as second heat wave hits B.C.
Heat warnings and special weather statements cover most of southern British Columbia as temperatures are forecast to soar through the weekend, magnifying anxiety about wildfire risk.
Dixie Fire is the latest town-eating monster in California’s exploding megafire crisis
Fossil fuel pollution has been searing the Golden State into a hot, dry tinderbox. The megafires have followed in accelerating fury and frequency, and carbon columnist Barry Saxifrage has the charts to prove it.
Massive California fire wipes out nearly 900 homes and buildings
California's largest single wildfire in recorded history kept pushing through forestlands on Tuesday, August 10, 2021, as fire crews tried to protect rural communities from flames that have destroyed hundreds of homes.
To prevent more wildfires, we need urgent climate action now
The forest fires raging across northern Ontario and much of the rest of the world are another stark and frightening reminder of the climate emergency that fossil fuels create, writes Dianne Saxe.
