"New research shows that the health consequences of wildfire smoke exposure stretch well beyond the smoky days themselves, contributing to nearly 16,000 deaths each year across the U.S., according to a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) analysis released in April."
“Climate change poses an additional challenge by fundamentally shifting #wildfire risk, fire behavior, and the trajectory of postfire recovery in ways that current fire behavior models … are not designed to meet.”
This first phase of the report did not analyze what caused the #Lahaina#wildfire, but provided a comprehensive timeline of events before, during and after the fire over a 72-hour period.
Utility-related fires are wreaking havoc across the United States. Since 2017, fires related to electricity transmission have burned at least 3 million acres.
#Canada#wildfires > A pipeline caught fire west of #Edmonton late Tuesday morning, sending up a large plume of flames and smoke visible from many kilometres away and triggering a small #wildfire.
Alberta Wildfire is responding to the blaze north of Obed Lake.
Airtankers, heavy equipment and firefighters are en route.
The #wildfire started in the Serra del Ferrer due to uncontrolled agricultural burning. The affected area is a thick pine forest, dry due to the lack of rain, difficult to access.
Evacuated as a precaution: 40 homes / 60 residents
April 1 snowpack snow water equivalent as a percent of 1991-2020 median in/around Alaska from ERA5 Land courtesy of ECMWF/Copernicus. Most of Alaska snowpack is near to above normal with a small exception in the central Interior and a larger exception in central and southern Southeast. In Canada, much of northern BC, NW Alberta and western NWT snowpack is far below typical for this point in the season. #akwx#ytwx#ntwx#Arctic#SnowPack#Hydrology#Wildfire @Climatologist49@DeniseGutzmer
1/several: Come hear about #ClimateJustice and Cultural Burning in Napa and beyond, this Monday April 1 on Zoom, from 6 - 7 pm Pacific! Our speaker is Charlie Toledo (Towa), Executive Director of Suscol Intertribal Council in Napa. She'll speak to questions like, How has colonialism's outlawing of cultural burns contributed to the climate crisis? What can settler climate activists do to support Indigenous cultural burners, here and abroad? https://www.climaterealitybayarea.org/chapter-events/2024/04/01/cultural-burning-and-climate-resilience
2/several: If you want to check out our list of Cultural Burning suggested readings/watchings/listenings featuring Indigenous creators/authors, click here; also, u can sign up for tomorrow's zoom meeting (no need to have read all or any of them! I'm happy to meet u & be in solidarity)! My takeaway: #wildfire season is almost here, & looking at #fire as always bad (& a Manly Man occupation) is settler-centric. Fire has been, can be, & is good! #ClimateJusticehttps://www.climaterealitybayarea.org/chapter-events/indigenous-voices-reading-listening-circle-zl5nl-5ma83
#Texas#Fire#weather > Personnel and equipment are positioned across areas of concern in the Texas Panhandle and Southwest Texas today to respond to any requests for assistance on new #wildfire ignitions.