Boreal forest being driven to tipping point by climate change, study finds – ‘'The changes could be very dramatic and very fast’

By Bob Weber21 August 2015 (The Canadian Press) – Climate change is forcing the boreal forest that covers much of northern Canada to a tipping point, concludes a newly published study. “The changes could be very dramatic and very fast,” said Dmitry Schepaschenko of Austria’s Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. Schepaschenko was one of three […]

2015 is on track to be the worst U.S. wildfire season on record

Daily statistics 8/27/15 Number of new large fires 5 States currently reporting large fires: Number of active large firesTotal number includes full suppression and resource managed fires.25Total does not include individual fires within complexes. 66 California (11)Idaho (19)Montana (11)New Mexico (1) Oregon (10)Utah (2)Washington (12) Acres from active fires 1,696,874 Fires contained 6 Year-to-date statistics […]

Scientists fear toxic algae bloom spreading on Pacific coast – Stretching from southern California to Alaska, this year’s blooms thought to be the largest ever recorded

By Ryan Schuessler1 August 2015 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Al Jazeera) – The toxic algae blooms in the Pacific Ocean stretching from southern California to Alaska — already the largest ever recorded — appear to have reached as far as the Aleutian Islands, scientists say. “The anecdotal evidence suggests we’re having a major event,” said Bruce Wright, […]

Dry days in U.S. West bring a ferocious start to the fire season – ‘By heavens, if this isn’t a sign of climate change, then what is climate change going to bring?’

By Fernanda Santos1 August 2015 WALLA WALLA, Washington (The New York Times) – Another summer of record-breaking drought and heat has seized the West, setting off costly and destructive wildfires from Southern California, where a single blaze burned more than 30,000 acres of national forest east of Los Angeles, to Montana, where a fast-moving fire […]

Premier of British Columbia fears raging forest fires new norm, blames global warming

By Keven Drews22 July 2015 WEST KELOWNA, B.C. (The Canadian Press) – Relentless forest fires burning across British Columbia may be the new normal, Premier Christy Clark warned as she stood not far from a raging fire that threatened homes in her own riding. Clark spoke near the Westside Road fire outside West Kelowna on […]

Study finds climate change is increasing length of wildfire seasons across globe – ‘Climate change isn’t a future projection, it actually started around 1980’

By David Erickson19 July 2015 MISSOULA (Independent Record) – The length of wildfire seasons across the globe and the burnable areas of Earth’s surface have drastically increased in the past three decades due to climate change, according to a groundbreaking new study supported by years of research from the U.S. Forest Service’s Missoula Fire Sciences […]

Video: Forest fire at Lac La Ronge, Saskatchewan, 13 July 2015

  By Lolita Poirier13 July 2015 (Facebook) – I don’t know how to describe it but it is really amazing … a life in itself. Wildfire Along Canadian Lake VIDEO – 250,000 Acres On Fire – July 13, 2015 Technorati Tags: forest fire,wildfire,Canada,North America,global warming,climate change

Graph of the Day: Lifetime CO2 output of proposed global coal-fired generating capacity

March 2015 (CoalSwarm / Sierra Club) – Because coal is the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel and coal plants have a long lifespan, growth in coal capacity has major implications for climate stability. From 2004 to 2013, increased coal utilization outweighed all other sources combined, producing 62 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions growth from fossil […]

Graph of the Day: Glacier decline in southern Alaska, 1994-2013

By Kathryn Hansen7 July 2015 (NASA) – Airborne surveys of southern Alaska have helped scientists get a better handle on where ice is being lost from this heavily glaciated region. Melting ice from Alaskan glaciers is estimated to be one of the main contributors to global sea level rise. The maps above show changes to […]

Forest fires burn at the wettest place in North America

By Monica Blaylock9 July 2015 (Motherboard) – Vancouver Island is home to the wettest place in North America—and right now it’s on fire. Drought has plunged the the Port Alberni-Clayoquot Region, part of Canada’s only rainforest, into one of the worst dry seasons on record. Forest fires are spreading quickly through sun-scorched woods that, in […]

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