WILD FIRES

[Nom De Plume]

We have never seen anything quite like this. This week the skies above Brazil’s largest city turned black in the middle of the afternoon due to the massive wildfires that are currently raging in that country. But the wildfires aren’t actually happening anywhere near São Paulo. In fact, the smoke that turned the skies black actually came from fires that were happening more than 1,000 miles away. Can you imagine how powerful the fires have to be in order to do that? And it isn’t just Brazil – right now horrific fires are scorching vast stretches of our planet from South America all the way up to the Arctic. Some of the fires are producing so much smoke that you can actually see it from space. And in the process, irreversible damage is being done to our ecosystems.

I know that this number is hard to believe, but there have been more than 72,000 wildfires in Brazil so far in 2019, and most of those fires are happening in the Amazon rainforest. I understand that many of you may not care what happens in Brazil, but you should. Approximately 60 percent of the entire Amazon rainforest is in Brazilian territory, and that rainforest produces approximately 20 percent of all the oxygen in our atmosphere. So essentially the “lungs of the Earth” are being burned away right in front of our eyes…

read more here... http://endoftheamericandream.com/archiv ... our-planet

[Nom De Plume]

Northern California crews battling the country's deadliest wildfire in a century were bracing for strong winds, with gusts up to 80 km/h, creating the potential to erode gains they have made in containing a disaster that has killed at least 76 and leveled a town.
Even as hundreds of searchers sift through the rubble in the town of Paradise looking for the dead, nearly 1,300 people remain unaccounted for more than a week after the fire sparked in Butte County, Sheriff Kory Honea has said. Authorities stressed that the long roster does not mean they believe all those people are missing.

https://www.9news.com.au/world/death-to ... 47975df4ed

[Nom De Plume]

MOSCOW — Hundreds of Russian towns and cities are shrouded in heavy smoke from wildfires in Siberia and the Far East Thursday, and the blazes appear to be spreading in remote terrain.
Avialesookhrana, Russia's aerial forest protection service, said more than 30,000 square kilometers (11,850 square miles) are on fire, with the vast majority in areas that are hard to reach and where potential damage is likely to be less than the cost of fighting them.
Although the fires have not hit populated areas, heavy smoke from them is affecting about 800 communities, officials said, including the large cities of Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk and Chita.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/wor ... 887183001/

[Nom De Plume]

Wildfires are ravaging parts of the Arctic, with areas of Siberia, Alaska, Greenland and Canada engulfed in flames and smoke.
Satellite images show how the plumes of smoke from the fires, many caused by dry storms in hot weather, can be seen from space.
While wildfires are common at this time of year, record-breaking summer temperatures and strong winds have made this year's fires particularly bad.
They are now at "unprecedented levels", says Mark Parrington, a wildfires expert at the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (Cams).

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49125391

[Nom De Plume]

B.C. Wildfires Map 2019: Updates on fire locations, evacuation alerts/orders

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-new ... rts-orders

[Nom De Plume]

Unprecedented Fires in Southern Africa

The fires that raged across southern Africa this August and September produced a thick "river of smoke" over the region. NASA-supported studies currently underway on the event will contribute to improved air pollution policies in the region and a better understanding of its impact on climate change.
This year the southern African fire season peaked in early September. The region is subject to some of the highest levels of biomass burning in the world. The heaviest burning was in western Zambia, southern Angola, northern Namibia, and northern Botswana. Some of the blazes had fire fronts 20 miles long that lasted for days.
In this animation, multiple fires are burning across the southern part of the African continent in September 2000. The fires, indicated in red, were observed by the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) instrument on board the NOAA-14 satellite. The fires generated large amounts of heat-absorbing aerosols (the dark haze), which were observed with the Earth Probe Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instrument.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/image ... ern-africa

[brian ross]

Didn't you hear, Nom? All the wildfires in Brazil have been caused by NGOs, according to the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro...

[Nom De Plume]

Didn't you hear, Nom? All the wildfires in Brazil have been caused by NGOs, according to the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro...

link please

[cods]

you didnt mention Qld Nom...they are battling them as well....

[brian ross]

Didn't you hear, Nom? All the wildfires in Brazil have been caused by NGOs, according to the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro...

link please

Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro baselessly blames NGOs for Amazon fires and ignites global outrage