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California Legislature warned in new report about ‘growing concern’ over wildfire smoke

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When California legislators return to the state Capitol in three weeks, reducing wildfire smoke won’t be at the top of their to-do list. But a new report calls the pollution source a “growing concern.”

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Canberra 2020 bushfire inquest postponed

An inquest into Canberra's devastating 2020 bushfires has been adjourned just one day into evidence about the monster blaze in the Orroral Valley.

AAP

Orroral Valley fire inquiry hears pilot of helicopter that started blaze did not see long grass before landing

An Australian Army helicopter pilot tells the first day of an inquest into a fire sparked by a light on the chopper he didn't take the area's long grass into account before landing.

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Inquest told army helicopter started blaze

Two army personnel in charge of a helicopter that started Canberra's 2020 Orroral Valley bushfire have given evidence to an inquest at the ACT Coroners Court.

AAP

The arrest that shocked the firefighting world – and threatens a vital practice

A fire chief is under investigation for a prescribed burn gone wrong and stirred up long-simmering tensions over wildfire risk

The Guardian - US

Wildfires incite animal behavior changes

Wildfires affect forest animals in a multitude ways — both harmful and helpful, oddly

Salon

Emergency services battle huge fire in Dundee city centre

FIREFIGHTERS rushed to Dundee city centre on Saturday night after a huge fire erupted in an abandoned building.

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Firefighters tackle massive blaze in Dundee as roads in city centre blocked off

The well developed fire is believed to have started in an abandoned building just after 6pm.

Daily Record

$Koala escapes flames with fractured foot: RFS warns of grass fires this summer$

Koala escapes flames with fractured foot: RFS warns of grass fires this summer

THERE are serious concerns for the koala population around Salamander Bay after a fire tore through the Mambo Wetlands. Kyrie the koala was lucky to survive.

Newcastle Herald

Mambo Wetlands bushfire: wind change key to keeping fire under control

A FIRE which reached the rear of several properties at Salamander Bay on Tuesday will be monitored carefully while water bombing helicopters attempt to douse the flames.

Newcastle Herald

Roads closed as Coalfields shed fire takes hold

Government Road at Loxford was closed yesterday as a team of 20 fire fighters fought to keep a shed fire under control.

Newcastle Herald

Rain, snowfall reduce risk of wildfires in California

A turn to wet weather has blunted an already moderate wildfire season in California but some risk remains as changing climate has made a rainy fall no guarantee of a stormy winter

The Independent UK

Massive blaze rips through former care home as people warned to keep windows closed

At least ten fire crews were at the site of a former care home in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, which caught alight earlier this evening as people were told to stay away

Daily Mirror

Wildfire smoke may warm the Earth for longer than we thought

As atmospheric chemists living in a region frequently polluted by wildfire smoke, we wanted to know more about these effects.

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Ore. residents agog at wildfire warning

Homeowners fear the state will devalue their properties by publicizing their fire risk

ABC News

Climate change hampers fire reduction efforts after successful decade in Kimberley

In the 2000s wildfires raged in the Kimberley until a huge increase in planned burning reduced their impact. But climate change means that success is far from guaranteed into the future.

The Canberra Times

House fire in Farrer closes road

The street was closed in both directions.

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Healthy Country plan to save glossy black cockatoos underway in Shoalhaven

Aboriginal custodians take a leading role as they work with the NSW government to rehabilitate crucial habitat for the glossy black cockatoo.

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Fires blazing across Top End amid heatwave, lightning strikes

Across the Northern Territory, thousands of square kilometres of parched savanna and grazing land have been reduced to ashes as bushfires spread rapidly amid another heatwave and weeks of ongoing electrical storms.

The Conversation

How 1970s conservation laws turned this ‘paradise on Earth’ into a tinderbox

Southeast Australia’s bushfire crisis culminated in the devastating bushfire season of 2019 and 2020 that burnt nearly 25 million hectares of bush.

The Independent UK

'Burn boss' arrest inflames Western land use tensions

A ranching family in Oregon is applauding the arrest of the leader of a U.S. Forest Service crew that carried out a prescribed burn in a national forest that spread onto the family’s property

The Independent UK

Official: 2021 Colorado wildfire losses surpass $2 billion

A wildfire that destroyed nearly 1,100 homes and businesses in suburban Denver last winter caused more than $2 billion in losses, making it by far the costliest in Colorado history

Tribune News Service

California tree carnage: A decade of drought and fire killed a third of Sierra Nevada forests

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Admirers of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains are familiar with the swaths of blackened trees flanking its sprawling green forest ranges. A new University of California, Berkeley study quantifies that devastation, finding nearly a third of southern Sierra conifer forests have died in the last decade.

The Guardian - UK

Climate crisis: UN finds ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’

Failure to cut carbon emissions means ‘rapid transformation of societies’ is only option to limit impacts, report says

Glasgow Live

Huge Lanarkshire fire spotted from motorway as flames engulf building in deliberate attack

Police have launched an investigation after the blaze ripped through the derelict building on Saturday night, and say they are treating the incident as wilful and appealed for witnesses.

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