By Maxim Tkachenko, CNNSeptember 3, 2010 11:36 a.m. EDT Moscow, Russia (CNN) — Fires left at least eight people dead and hundreds homeless in three regions of central Russia, government officials said Friday. The regions of Volgograd, Saratov and Samara — all along the Volga River in central Russia — have been hit by forest […]
By James Corcut Friday, 3 September 2010 Europe’s rarest seabird, the Zino’s Petrel, found only in Madeira, has suffered potentially devastating losses from a forest fire which struck the birds’ breeding area on the Atlantic island. The fire on Madeira’s central mountain massif killed 25 chicks – 65 per cent of this year’s young […]
www.mongabay.com August 27, 2010 The number of fires burning in Brazil has more than doubled compared with the same period last year. Surprisingly, the news has sparked a Twitter sensation, with more than 120,000 users “tweeting” messages with the hashtag “#chegadequeimadas” about the fires in a 48 hour window. The phenomenon emerged after analysis of […]
By Molly Rettig, Fairbanks News-Miner Monday, August 02, 2010 FAIRBANKS – One hundred years ago, the growing season in Fairbanks was less than three months long. Last year, some local gardeners were still harvesting broccoli and cabbage in mid-September. Fairbanks is 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit hotter and 11 percent drier than it was in the early […]
By JENNA McMURRAY, QMI AgencyAugust 23, 2010 6:47am CALGARY – Though haze that settled over Calgary and much of Alberta last week due to wafting smoke from B.C. forest fires dissolved somewhat on the weekend, there’s more where that came from, according to Alberta Environment. Bob Myrick, manager for air policy, said though the air […]
Multiple clusters of fires burned in British Columbia, sending a thick plume of smoke over the Pacific Ocean in mid-August 2010. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image on August 13. East of the snowcapped Coast Mountains, numerous fires, many of them clustered into large groups, send smoke […]
By Tamara Baluja, The Province; with files from Laura Baziuk August 22, 2010 B.C.’s ferocious wildfires have resulted in an air-quality advisory that remained in effect Saturday for B.C., Alberta and even parts of Saskatchewan as smoke continues to drift east. There have been unconfirmed reports that the smoke has even drifted to the western […]
Haze is reducing visibility, carries a strong smell, and poses a health risk By Vivian Luk, Vancouver Sun August 21, 2010 VANCOUVER — Clouds of stinking smoke from B.C. forest fires covered much of Western Canada on Friday, reducing visibility and sparking air-quality advisories. Cooler weather and a chance of showers could ease some of […]
BBC20 August 2010 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has sacked the head of the forestry agency for failing to deal adequately with the recent wildfires. The fires have destroyed hundreds of thousands of hectares of countryside, and shrouded Moscow in dense smog. Mr Putin replaced Alexei Savinov with his deputy, Viktor Maslyakov. However, some Russian […]
By Vladimir Slivyak, 21 August 2010; translated by Maria Kaminskaya MOSCOW – Last Wednesday, August 18, a group of journalists and environmentalists joined representatives of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations (MChS) to visit Bryansk – a region in Central European Russia where wildfires threatened to spread into areas affected by the 1986 Chernobyl fallout, […]
