Colorado wildfire blamed for one death as California blaze expands
Reuters A fast-moving wildfire has killed at least one person in the Rocky Mountain foothills of Colorado, one of a handful of blazes burning across the state, while thousands of firefighters in California struggled to contain the largest fire in the country. The individual killed in the Stone Canyon Fire, burning about 32 kilometres north […]
From floods and fires to locusts, ‘climate breakdown’ cost rich and poor in 2020
Barcelona, Spain Thomson Reuters Foundation Disasters fuelled by weather and climate extremes brought “catastrophic results for millions” across rich and poor nations in 2020, causing thousands of deaths and tens of billions of dollars in losses, charity Christian Aid said on Monday. In a report, the aid agency identified 15 of the most destructive climate disasters […]
US lands lost in severe wildfires rising over decades
New York City, US Thomson Reuters Foundation The yearly land area burned by severe wildfires in the western United States has grown eight times larger in less than four decades, researchers said on Monday, warning that higher temperatures and drier conditions are threatening irreparable forest loss. Some 210,000 acres burned in 2017, up from 26,000 […]
Postcards: Choking on smoke – US cities open clean air shelters for homeless
GREGORY SCRUGGS, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Seattle on how communities are grappling with declines in air quality on the US west coast as wildfires rage…