Tag: megafires
“We encourage people to leave now”: in Canada, the city of Yellowknife evacuated in the face of megafires
Alexandre Lepoutre with AFP / Photo credit: SYLVIA WEBSTER / UGC / AFP 07:48, August 18, 2023 Thousands of people living in Canada’s Far North rushed en masse to the…
Megafires in Canada: evacuations continue in the city of Yellowknife
Alexandre Lepoutre / Photo credit: BC WILDFIRE SERVICE / ANADOLU AGENCY / ANADOLU AGENCY VIA AFP 10:12 a.m., August 19, 2023 Hundreds of active megafires continue to ravage Canada. In…
Megafires in Canada: the bar of 10 million burned hectares crossed
More than 10 million hectares have burned this year in Canada, a figure well above anything the country has ever seen and which will continue to rise in the coming…
Megafires in Canada: death of a firefighter, ever more numerous fires
“It is with heavy hearts that our union mourns the loss of a family member who lost his life today fighting a wildfire outside of Revelstoke,” B.C. the BCGEU trade…
Mercury panicking, mega-fires, devastating floods… 2021, the year of the accumulation of extreme events
Europe experienced an avalanche of extreme weather events last year which illustrate the need to act against global warming, underlines an inventory of the European climate published on Friday. On…