Winds expected to calm but humidity remains lowExperts warn of toxic effects of wildfire smokeWith winds finally turning in their favor, firefighters are throwing all their resources into boxing a California blaze burning mere miles from Lake Tahoe and…
Lake Tahoe ski resort uses snow-making machines to fight wildfire
Staff defending building and equipment turned to repurposed water cannons as huge Caldor fire approachedAs the flames of California’s Caldor fire approached a popular Lake Tahoe-area ski resort, staff used every tool they could to protect the property,…
Greece’s deadly wildfires were sparked by 30 years of political failure | Yanis Varoufakis
The climate emergency and state neglect caused this disasterAfter the second world war, Greece’s countryside experienced two debilitating human surges – an exodus of villagers, then a most peculiar human invasion of its fringes. These two surges, aided…
‘Pivotal day’: firefighters battle to head off Caldor blaze ahead of gusty winds
Two weeks in, huge fire is only 19% containedNearly 90 blazes burning across US westWildfires threaten way of life in California mountain townsFirefighters faced a critical day in efforts to prevent a huge California wildfire from reaching the Lake Tah…
Caldor fire bears down on Lake Tahoe as communities clouded in smoke
Evacuation orders issues in two counties as more than 14,000 firefighters battle wildfires up and down CaliforniaA wind-driven wildfire continued to advance towards Lake Tahoe, clouding the alpine vacation and tourist spot in a sickly yellow layer of s…
BreezoMeter, which powers air quality in Apple’s Weather app, launches Wildfire Tracker
BreezoMeter has been on a mission to make environmental health hazards accessible to as many people as possible. Through its air quality index (AQI) calculations, the Israel-based company can now identify the quality of air down to a few meters in dozens of countries. A partnership with Apple to include its data into the iOS […]
A16Z leads investment in Firemaps, a marketplace for home hardening against wildfires
Wildfires are burning in countries all around the world. California is dealing with some of the worst wildfires in its history (a superlative that I use essentially every year now) with the Caldor fire and others blazing in the state’s north. Meanwhile, Greece and other Mediterranean nations have been fighting fires for weeks to bring […]
‘Fire weather’: dangerous days now far more common in US west, study finds
Hot, arid and dry conditions that fuel extreme wildfires have grown more frequent from Pacific coast to Great PlainsThe hot, dry and windy weather conditions fueling the huge wildfires that have besieged the western US this summer have increased in fre…
Here in British Columbia, we have spent the summer running from cruel wildfires | Mary Stockdale
Blazes are destroying whole communities. The Canadian government must act now to tackle this existential threatSmall fires crackle into life on the hills around us at the slightest provocation. Creeks swell with flash floods, as upland snow melts at re…
Caldor fire: crews prepare for high winds that could fan northern California blaze
The wildfire has destroyed dozens of homes and closed down a stretch of Interstate 50 to the Nevada state lineCrews were digging in and burning out fire lines amid fears that another round of high winds on Saturday could bring renewed fury to a norther…