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7 votes
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How people live off a garbage mountain that keeps catching on fire | World Wide Waste
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Simultaneous tragedy: Fire at Evergreen Packaging
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What happened in Colorado was something much scarier than a wildfire
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Climate change in Brazil: Fire, frost, and drought shake global markets
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Black Snow: To harvest America’s cane sugar, billion-dollar companies set fire to fields, a money-saving practice that’s being banned by other countries
12 votes -
How returning lands to native tribes is helping protect nature
6 votes -
Hosting company OVH had a fire at their Strasbourg, France data center last night, completely destroying the "SBG2" location and damaging others
31 votes -
Jair Bolsonaro's Brazilian regime incentivizes landlords to burn off forests; anarchist fire brigades pick up the slack
16 votes -
Private firefighting crews in California spark conflict after alleged illegal backfires in Glass Fire
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Sara Sweeney, a 21-year veteran of the US Forest Service and pioneering wildfire fighter, on the thrills and threats of the job
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Cities without people
5 votes -
This electrical transmission tower has a little problem
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2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park
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CA Gov. Gavin Newsom: By this point last year, 4,292 fires had burned 56,000 acres. This year, 7,002 fires have chewed through more than 1.4 million acres.
7 votes -
Fires linked to fireworks erupt across San Francisco, Bay Area
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A major scorecard gives the health of Australia’s environment less than one out of ten
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Scientists are leading Notre Dame’s restoration—and probing mysteries laid bare by its devastating fire
6 votes -
Inside Australia's climate emergency: For months, Australians breathed air pollution up to 26 times above levels considered hazardous to human health. The long-term impact could be devastating.
9 votes -
Celeste Barber’s $52 million bushfire fund has been held up thanks to legal wrangling
3 votes -
An open letter on Australian bushfires and climate: urgent need for deep cuts in carbon emissions [signed by Laureates of the Australian Research Council]
4 votes -
Why Australia's fires are linked to floods in East Africa
4 votes -
Humble Australia Fire Relief Bundle - $25 for 29 games including Hollow Knight, Void Bastards, and Hand of Fate 2, with all proceeds going to help the wildlife affected by the Australian bushfires
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Incredible, secret firefighting mission saves famous Australian 'dinosaur trees'
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The Australian government has been forced to talk about climate change, so it’s taking a subtle – and sinister – approach
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The ecological devastation of the Victorian bushfires has been laid bare in a leaked report which warns some species are likely to already be extinct
4 votes -
A News Corp employee has accused the organisation of a "misinformation campaign" filled with "irresponsible" and "dangerous" coverage of the national bushfire crisis
14 votes -
Australia's bushfire emergency is being exploited on social media, as misinformation is spread through cyberspace via hundreds of thousands of posts.
News article: Fires misinformation being spread through social media This includes a prominent local billionaire, Andrew Forrest, who has pledged $70 million for bushfire relief: "I think there's...
News article: Fires misinformation being spread through social media
This includes a prominent local billionaire, Andrew Forrest, who has pledged $70 million for bushfire relief: "I think there's a multitude of reasons why the fire extent has bene so devastating. I think a warming planet would be part of that — [but] the biggest part of that is arsonists," he said.
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Australia’s bushfire catastrophe in photos
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Major fire at Stavanger airport on Norway's west coast destroyed hundreds of cars, grounded air traffic and led to the evacuation of the facilities
5 votes -
Scott Morrison stands by Liberal ad promoting Australian government's bushfire response
Scott Morrison stands by Liberal ad promoting government's bushfire response Here's the advertisement itself: https://twitter.com/ScottMorrisonMP/status/1213330419044638722 For the non-Aussies,...
Scott Morrison stands by Liberal ad promoting government's bushfire response
Here's the advertisement itself: https://twitter.com/ScottMorrisonMP/status/1213330419044638722
For the non-Aussies, and for the Aussies who aren't political tragics like me... the reason everyone's up in arms is that this video has been released by the Liberal Party, not by the Australian government. We can tell by the "Authorised by" statement in the final frame. Government information comes with the Commonwealth coat of arms and says "Authorised by the Australian Government, Canberra". Party political advertisements have to be "authorised by" someone within the political party. In other words, this is a political ad, not a government press release. The Liberal Party (not the government!) is promoting itself on the basis of what the government is doing for the bushfires.
Scott Morrison has already been an utter failure during this crisis. He went on holiday after the fires started. He's done as little as possible since he returned. And people have noticed. People have abused him when he turned up to visit their town. People have literally refused to shake his hand (but he grabs their hands and shakes them anyway!).
But, despite all this wrong-footedness, this new advertisement is the most tone-deaf thing he's done (so far!). It reflects his background in marketing. Everything's a message for him. Unfortunately for him, the message here is "I'm using your suffering to promote myself".
Scott Morrison has fucked up yet again.
11 votes -
How big are the fires burning in eastern Australia? Interactive map
16 votes -
Australian government deploys army reservists, third navy ship to support firefighters
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Australian navy begins evacuation of beach where thousands had sought refuge from fire
17 votes -
New Zealand 'blanketed' by smoke and dust from raging NSW and QLD bushfires
7 votes -
Firefighters in Australia say situation 'out of control' as Prime Minister denies request for emergency aid
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Australia heatwave: State of emergency declared over bushfire crisis
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Mapping the Australian fires
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Photos of Australia’s "catastrophic" bushfires
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Former NSW Fire chief frustrated at Govt for 'sweeping climate change under the rug'
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NSW fires destroy at least 150 homes, Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast communities under bushfire threat in Qld
7 votes -
Human activities are drying out the Amazon
5 votes -
PG&E releases list of California cities, counties on power shut-off watch
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A trailblazing plan to fight California wildfires
5 votes -
Finland urges EU to consider banning Brazilian beef over Amazon fires
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Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal
10 votes -
For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of the American imagination — and a preview of the American future
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Kyoto Animation recovers data from server after studio 1 fire
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Fire at notorious Brooklyn federal jail as NYC enters heat wave
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Several deaths and many injuries in Kyoto Animation studio fire
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