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By Linda GIVETASH Paris (AFP) - Alors que des régions d'Amérique du nord et de l'Europe sont déjà confrontées aux flammes en ce début d'été, le monde n'est pas préparé à faire face à des incendies rendus toujours plus féroces par le changement climatique, mettent en garde des experts. Des paysages de cendres sont déjà apparus cette année dans le sillage des vagues de chaleur au Canada, aux Etats-Unis, en Grèce ou en Turquie. Si des moyens nouveaux ont été alloués dernièrement à la lutte contre les incendies, il n'en va pas de même pour l'anticipation de telles catastrophes, jugent les experts....
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Paris (AFP) - Le nombre et l'intensité des feux de forêt extrêmes, les plus destructeurs et les plus polluants, ont plus que doublé dans le monde depuis 20 ans, en raison du réchauffement climatique dû à l'activité humaine, selon une nouvelle étude publiée lundi. À l'aide de données satellites, les chercheurs ont étudié près de 3.000 incendies de forêt ayant une énorme "puissance radiative" - la quantité d'énergie émise par rayonnement - entre 2003 et 2023 et ont constaté que leur fréquence avait été multipliée par 2,2 au cours de cette période. Ce sont les forêts tempérées de conifères, notam...
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Washington (AFP) - The number of missing persons following the massive wildfire that leveled a town on the island of Maui last month has fallen from 385 to 66, Hawaii Governor Josh Green said Friday. Green made the announcement one month after the fire that destroyed the town of Lahaina, the deadliest in the United States for more than a century. The death toll from the blaze remains at 115 people, but could rise further as a police investigation unfolds, Green said. The Maui Police Department is investigating the cases of missing persons, Green said, noting that "the numbers are getting sorte...
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Washington (AFP) - Disinformation about deadly wildfires in the United States and Canada has run rampant across social media, with posts falsely blaming coordinated arson, lasers -- and plans to develop "smart cities." Allegations that the fires are a deliberate policy to clear areas for urban redesign deploy screenshots of government websites or headlines about everything from traffic monitoring to conferences about new technology. "So what are the odds that we have two fires in two places within a week's time, and both of these places have initiatives to become smart-intelligent cities?" say...
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Kings Canyon National Park (United States) (AFP) - When ferocious wildfires tore through California's prized giant sequoia forests, they killed towering trees that have lived there for thousands of years -- and perhaps changed the nature of the groves forever. Now the US National Park Service (NPS) wants to give Mother Nature a helping hand, planting lab-grown seedlings it says will kick-start the return of these magnificent stands. "The goal is to reestablish enough sequoias in the first few years after fire so that we have trees 60, 100, 400 years from now," says Christy Brigham, chief of re...
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By The Conversation Wildfire is a phenomenon that has affected pretty much every vegetated environment on Earth for millions of years. However, during the past few decades, the planet has been experiencing extraordinary wildfire activity, with widespread devastation in diverse places such as the Mediterranean, North and South America, Southeast Asia, Australia and even Siberia. The current year has already shown troubling signs of massive fires – for example, Europe's total burnt area for the 2022 fire season is four times greater than the 2006-2021 average, according to the European Forest Fi...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Firefighters made progress battling California's largest wildfire of the summer on Tuesday, with more than one-quarter of the blaze near Yosemite National Park contained. The Oak Fire in central California broke out on Friday and spread rapidly, destroying 41 buildings and forcing thousands to evacuate. By Tuesday, nearly 3,000 firefighters and 24 helicopters at the scene had achieved some success containing the blaze, aided by slightly higher humidity levels, which are forecasted to increase further in the coming days. Jonathan Pierce, a California fire department spokesma...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - The wildfire threat to the world's largest trees in California has almost passed, with the blaze now spreading away from giant sequoia trees in Yosemite National Park, a forestry official said Thursday. More than 1,000 firefighters have scrambled to contain the Washburn fire, which started a week ago, and which for days threatened the world-renowned Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias. "The threat is essentially almost gone," Stanley Bercovitz, a US Forest Service spokesperson, told AFP. "Currently none [of the giant sequoias] have been killed. You never know, down the road. I...
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Paris (AFP) - The number of major wildfires worldwide will rise sharply in coming decades due to global warming, and governments are ill-prepared for the death and destruction such mega-blazes trail in their wake, the UN warned Wednesday. Even the most ambitious efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions will not prevent a dramatic surge in the frequency of extreme fire conditions, a report commissioned by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) concluded. "By the end of the century, the probability of wildfire events similar to Australia's 2019–2020 Black Summer or the huge Arctic fires in 2020 occ...
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