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The Wildfire Survivors Who Didn’t Want to Be Climate Models

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Everyone says Lytton was a beautiful place to live. The small Canadian town sits at the confluence of two rivers and was built on one of the oldest continuously inhabited areas in North America—the Nlaka’pamux people have called it home for more than 10,000 years. About 250 people lived in the Lytton of the recent past, on a few cross streets and several dozen lots—you could take it in all in one breath. One blistering June evening in 2021, a

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Kritiker kritisieren den Maui Wildfire Fund von Oprah und Dwayne Johnson

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*Dwayne The Rock Johnson Und Oprah Winfrey haben einen Wiederaufbaufonds für die Opfer der Waldbrände auf Maui aufgelegt.

In einem am Donnerstag auf Instagram geposteten Video gaben die beiden bekannt, dass sie 10 Millionen US-Dollar gespendet hätten, um die Kampagne auf den Weg zu bringen. Sie rufen auch die Öffentlichkeit auf, für die Bemühungen zu spenden.

„Wie wir aus erster Hand gesehen haben, waren die Auswirkungen dieser Waldbrände verheerend, und wir sind hier, um mit 100-prozentiger Garantie sicherzustellen, dass

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Miracle in Maui: SIXTY wildfire survivors are rescued from inside single house, as death toll climbs to 106 and 1,300 remain unaccounted for

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Sixty survivors of Maui’s devastating wildfires were rescued from a single house during the massive search operation.

The group, many of whom were previously unaccounted for, were found taking refuge in an isolated private residence where electricity and phone lines had failed.

Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen announced the miracle discovery before the death toll was revised to 106, with more than 1,000 people also still missing.

Authorities are now using the term ‘unaccounted for’ instead of missing because the

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Hawaii wildfire death toll grows to 93 as shocking new video shows residents being tossed around in the ocean after diving in to flee the flames – as report reveals Maui officials were warned it was a tinderbox YEARS ago

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The death toll from the Hawaiian wildfires has climbed to 93 as new video emerges of residents being tossed around the ocean after jumping in to flee flames. 

Blazes on the island of Maui have now become the deadliest wildfires in modern US history, as authorities continue to work to identify the victims. 

As the fires swept the island, new footage has also emerged of people who had jumped into the Pacific Ocean in an effort to escape the flames.  

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Why It’s So Hard to Forecast Wildfire Smoke

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Picture the boreal forest, in northern Quebec, on the morning of June 1st. Bears, moose, and wolves roamed, circling its unusually dry lakes, bogs, rivers, and creeks. In the afternoon, after weeks of sunshine, severe thunderstorms suddenly rolled over the forest’s vast tracts of black and white spruce, subalpine fir, jack pine, and aspens. Lightning struck the ground repeatedly. A hundred and twenty-three fires were lit in a single day. The peat and duff of the forest floor began to

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More than 1,000 evacuated as Portugal wildfire spreads – EURACTIV.com

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Hundreds of firefighters scrambled on Tuesday (8 August) to put out a blaze raging in southern Portugal that has scorched thousands of hectares of land and forced the precautionary evacuation of around 1,400 people.

The wildfire, currently being tackled by over 800 firefighters, started on Saturday in the municipality of Odemira, in the Alentejo region, but has since spread south towards the Algarve, one of Portugal’s top tourist destinations.

High temperatures and strong winds are complicating efforts to combat the

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Greek PM offers free holidays to tourists as wildfire compensation – POLITICO

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Greece will grant tourists whose vacation was interrupted by the wildfires which devastated Rhodes a one-week free holiday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Wednesday.

“For all of those whose holidays were cut short as a result of the wildfires, the Greek government, in cooperation with the local authorities, will offer one week of free holidays on Rhodes next spring or next fall,” Mitsotakis told British broadcaster ITV, adding the island was now “back to normal.”

Around 20,000 people, including thousands

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The Brief — Up close and personal with wildfire – EURACTIV.com

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In this extremely hot summer, wildfires are raging in many countries across our continent, especially in the south. We usually blame them on climate change and extreme weather.

This is the big picture. The small picture, seen above this text, shows this reporter fighting a smaller wildfire in his native Bulgaria. This is what happened:

TV and radio broadcasts announced that 26 July was the hottest day of the month in Bulgaria and possibly of the year. Staying in the

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Climate change has made dangerous wildfire smoke a more common threat

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Even as the thick clouds of smoke from wildfires raging in eastern Canada, which blanketed the U.S. East Coast in a dangerous orange haze, begin to dissipate, researchers are warning it’s a sign of the times.

Canada’s fire outlook will remain higher than normal for June. And on a larger scale, climate change is projected to make fire conditions more common across Canada, Russia and Alaska’s boreal forests.

The current fires were sparked by lightning in the Canadian province of

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