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juli g pausasThe discussion on <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/megafires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#megafires</a> continues ... Megafire (>10,000 ha), Gigafire (>100,000 ha). Terafire (>1,000,000 ha) Do these definitions serve a useful purpose? - Time will tell ...Megafire—you may not like it, but you cannot avoid it. Linley et al. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GEB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GEB</a> <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/geb.70032" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/geb.70032</a>Megaflood, megatsunami, megaquake, megafauna, megacity, megaspore, megalith, megadune, ...

O=C=OCapitalism Eating Itself by Fueling Climate Mayhem, Warns Capitalist If humanity stays on current course, warns top insurer, the "financial sector as we know it ceases to function. And with it, capitalism as we know it ceases to be viable."According to GüntherThallinger, a former top executive at Germany's branch of the consulting giant <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/McKinsey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#McKinsey</a> & Company and currently a board member of <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Allianz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Allianz</a> SE, one of the largest insurance companies in the world, the <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> is on a path to destroy <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> as we know it."We are fast approaching temperature levels—1.5C, 2C, 3C—where <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/insurers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insurers</a> will no longer be able to offer coverage for many" of the risks associated with the <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climate</a> crisis, Thallinger writes in a recent post highlighted Thursday by <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/TheGuardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheGuardian</a>.There is no way to "adapt" to temperatures beyond human tolerance. There is limited adaptation to <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/megafires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#megafires</a>, other than not building near <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#forests</a>. Whole cities built on flood plains cannot simply pick up and move uphill. And as temperatures continue to rise, adaptation itself becomes economically unviable.Once we reach 3°C of warming, the situation locks in. Atmospheric energy at this level will persist for 100+ years due to carbon cycle inertia and the absence of scalable industrial carbon removal technologies. There is no known pathway to return to pre-2°C conditions. (See: <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/IPCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IPCC</a> AR6, 2023; NASA Earth Observatory: "The Long-Term Warming Commitment")At that point, risk cannot be transferred (no insurance), risk cannot be absorbed (no public capacity), and risk cannot be adapted to (physical limits exceeded). That means no more mortgages, no new real estate development, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function. And with it, capitalism as we know it ceases to be viable. <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/capitalism-climate" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.commondreams.org/news/capitalism-climate</a>

BellingenNSWCommunity Efforts to Care for Animals During Climate Disasters: Experiences and Recommendations from an Australian Bushfire Affected Region"Formal disaster prevention, preparation, risk management, and response remain highly anthropocentric, with non-human animals afforded minimal attention, resourcing, and support. This article reports on informal community efforts to care for non-human animals during and after the 2019/2020 “Black Summer” bushfires in Australia, when over three billion animals were killed, injured, or displaced.""Key findings are that: human communities understood and treated non-human animals as part of their communities; humans went to extraordinary lengths to care for and rescue animals; these efforts were largely invisible to, and unsupported—even condemned—by formal emergency management agencies. We conclude that human-centric emergency and disaster management policies are at odds with community values and behaviors. We argue that disaster management must evolve to accommodate and support the realities of community-based rather than individual-based approaches, and must simultaneously expand to consider communities as multispecies." >> Sturman, A., Celermajer, D., MacDonald, F. et al. Community Efforts to Care for Animals During Climate Disasters: Experiences and Recommendations from an Australian Bushfire Affected Region. Int J Disaster Risk Sci (2025). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-025-00623-8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-025-00623-8</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/bushfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bushfires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/fires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ClimateBreakdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateBreakdown</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/care" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#care</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NSW</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/megafires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#megafires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/2019Bushfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#2019Bushfires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/BlackSummer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackSummer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/disaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disaster</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/preparation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#preparation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/pets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pets</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/property" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#property</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/livestock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#livestock</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/anthropocentrism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anthropocentrism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/multispecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#multispecies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#community</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/values" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#values</a>

BellingenNSWCare for non-human animals during and after the 2019/2020 “Black Summer” bushfires in Australia"In fighting these fires, authorities focused almost entirely on protecting human lives and property...The role of rescuing and caring for domesticated and wild animals fell almost entirely to community groups and individual carers, who stepped up to fill the gap at significant cost to themselves – financially, emotionally and sometimes even at a risk to their safety.The standard view in Australia is that only humans matter in the face of bushfires. While some guidance on disaster preparation talks about how to protect pets such as cats and dogs, wildlife carers, farmers and horse owners often found themselves facing incoming fires with little or no information or support." >> <a href="https://theconversation.com/as-the-black-summer-megafires-neared-people-rallied-to-save-wildlife-and-domestic-animals-but-it-came-at-a-real-cost-248432" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/as-the-black-summer-megafires-neared-people-rallied-to-save-wildlife-and-domestic-animals-but-it-came-at-a-real-cost-248432</a>"69% of Australian households own a pet.">> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/29/the-veterinarian-shortage-in-regional-australia-is-not-a-looming-crisis-were-already-in-it" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/29/the-veterinarian-shortage-in-regional-australia-is-not-a-looming-crisis-were-already-in-it</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/bushfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bushfires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/fires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FossiFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossiFuels</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NSW</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/megafires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#megafires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/2019Bushfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#2019Bushfires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/BlackSummer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackSummer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/disaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disaster</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/preparation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#preparation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/property" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#property</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/IntroducedPets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IntroducedPets</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/livestock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#livestock</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/pets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pets</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/dogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dogs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/cats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cats</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/menagerie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#menagerie</a>

Larry NeufeldCalifornia’s well-documented climate and fire history shows how megafires are responding with accelerating frequency and fury <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildfires</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#California</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/LosAngelesFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LosAngelesFire</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/megafires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#megafires</a> <a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/28/analysis/megafires-weather-California" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/28/analysis/megafires-weather-California</a>

Joël MétreauA few weeks before the L.A. fires, <a href="https://mastodon.social/@lemonde" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@lemonde</a> published my review of Fire Weather from John Vaillant, L'Âge du feu in french <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/lafires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lafires</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/losangeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#losangeles</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/megafires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#megafires</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/fireweather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fireweather</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climatechange</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/johnvaillant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#johnvaillant</a> <a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/12/18/l-age-du-feu-histoire-d-un-embrasement_6455770_3232.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/12/18/l-age-du-feu-histoire-d-un-embrasement_6455770_3232.html</a>

Joël MétreauMy review for <a href="https://mastodon.social/@lemonde" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@lemonde</a> of « L’Age du feu », Fire Weather in english, by John Vaillant. A good and informative book about how humanity lost control on fire after taming It <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/JohnVaillant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnVaillant</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/fire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fire</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/megafires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#megafires</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/lagedufeu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lagedufeu</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/fireweather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fireweather</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climatechange</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/fortmcmurray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fortmcmurray</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/lemonde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lemonde</a> <a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/12/18/l-age-du-feu-histoire-d-un-embrasement_6455770_3232.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/12/18/l-age-du-feu-histoire-d-un-embrasement_6455770_3232.html</a>

BellingenNSWAre industrial scale burns incinerating Australian biodiversity?"The “industrial” scale burns which are designed to “process landscapes as efficiently as possible” are known to frequently kill – in 2022, Victorian authorities accidentally incinerated several koalas when they set a forest alight, and evidence suggests fires set in Tasmania have killed endangered devils.""A complete “rethink” of fire management practices by state authorities" is needed. >> <a href="https://au.news.yahoo.com/rare-aussie-bird-under-threat-over-common-tree-practice-catastrophic-061116403.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://au.news.yahoo.com/rare-aussie-bird-under-threat-over-common-tree-practice-catastrophic-061116403.html</a>Driscoll, D.A., Macdonald, K.J., Gibson, R.K. et al. Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires. Nature (2024). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08174-6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08174-6</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/bushfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bushfires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/fires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/megafires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#megafires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/PyroConvectiveStorms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PyroConvectiveStorms</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/incineration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#incineration</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/pileburning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pileburning</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/sprawl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sprawl</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#destruction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#birds</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/GlossyBlackCockatoos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GlossyBlackCockatoos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/koalas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#koalas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CulturalBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CulturalBurning</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ExtinctionCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExtinctionCrisis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a>

Bruce WebberHow often & where prescribed burning takes place needs a rethink if Australia's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> is to be preserved, from a Nature paper led by <a href="https://mastodon.au/@DonDriscoll" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@DonDriscoll</a> on the 2019/20 Australian <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/megafires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#megafires</a>.<a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-11-14/black-summer-impact-study-suggests-prescribed-burn-rethink/104592912" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-11-14/black-summer-impact-study-suggests-prescribed-burn-rethink/104592912</a>

BellingenNSWMegafires - A rethink is needed"We should not forget that Australia’s 2019-20 megafires were the predictable consequence of climate change.The alternative fire management approaches we suggest will likely fail if climate change continues unabated."Bushfire management agencies aim to reduce fire risks through frequent fuel-reduction burning...But our research suggests this practice, which increases fire frequency, may create larger disruptions to ecosystems when big bushfires occur...Alternative approaches to large-scale prescribed burning are required.">> <a href="https://theconversation.com/catastrophic-declines-massive-data-haul-reveals-why-so-many-plants-and-animals-suffer-after-fire-241691" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/catastrophic-declines-massive-data-haul-reveals-why-so-many-plants-and-animals-suffer-after-fire-241691</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/bushfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bushfires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/megafires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#megafires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/BlackSummer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackSummer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/incineration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#incineration</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateEmergency</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/PrescribedBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrescribedBurning</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/RightWay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RightWay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/fire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fire</a>

michael31-Oct-2024 Indigenous population expansion and cultural burning reduced shrub cover that fuels megafires in Australia<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Indigenous</a> burning practices in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> once halved shrub cover, reducing available fuels and limiting <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wildfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildfire</a> intensity for thousands of years, but the removal of these practices following European <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/colonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colonization</a> has led to an increase in the tinder that has fueled today’s catastrophic <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/megafires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#megafires</a>, researchers report. <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1062754" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1062754</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecology</a>

BellingenNSWLessons from another settler society about current fire practices, land management and logging practices: With more good fire comes less feral fire."To understand modern fire policy in California requires an analysis of California’s settler attitude toward the more-than-human world. This attitude relies heavily on the invented concepts embedded in the words nature and wilderness." “The white man sure ruined this country, it’s turned back to wilderness.” Sierra Miwok elder James Rust, quoted by M. Kat AndersonExcerpts of The State of Fire: Why California Burns by Obi Kaufmann. Heyday Books, in Los Angeles Review of Books September 15, 2024 >> <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-then-is-natural/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-then-is-natural/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/bushfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bushfires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CulturalBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CulturalBurning</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/MegaFires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MegaFires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/gigafire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gigafire</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/arson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arson</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ClimateBreakdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateBreakdown</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Cryosphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cryosphere</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#droughts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/smoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#smoke</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/loggingIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#loggingIndustry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LoggingImpacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSWLogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NSWLogging</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FCNSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FCNSW</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/harm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#harm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/WUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WUI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/sprawl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sprawl</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/cars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cars</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extractivism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/denial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#denial</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousPeoples</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecosystems</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/SettlerSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SettlerSociety</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/mindset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mindset</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/BelloBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BelloBook</a>

BellingenNSWAs summer heat arrives in August and they are expanding fossil fuels. It is time to be prepared for mega fires in Australia."Australia’s unprecedented bushfires of 2019 to 2020 burned an area larger than the United Kingdom, killed at least 33 people, killed or displaced close to 3 billion animals, and destroyed the habitats of more than 500 species."For 60,000 Years, Australia’s First Nations Have Put Fire to Good Use. Watch “Burnt Country”, Kirsten Slemint's documentary on cultural burning in Australia. >> <a href="https://e360.yale.edu/features/2024-film-contest-second-place-australia-indigenous-fire" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://e360.yale.edu/features/2024-film-contest-second-place-australia-indigenous-fire</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/bushfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bushfires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/IndigenousBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousBurning</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CulturalBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CulturalBurning</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/MegaFires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MegaFires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ExtremeHeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExtremeHeat</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/koalas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#koalas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extinction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a>

BentleySupercharged by <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Climate</a> Change, Western <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/Megafires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Megafires</a> Explode Simultaneously - <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/HeatWaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeatWaves</a> and “flash <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#droughts</a>” fuel intense <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildfires</a> in California, Oregon and Canada. <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30072024/todays-climate-west-megafires-heat/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30072024/todays-climate-west-megafires-heat/</a>

Chuck DarwinOregon’s wildfire season is off to an explosive start, with more than 1 million acres charred in less than a month, as experts warn that extreme heat and unusual lightning strikes are creating “catastrophic conditions” for fires to ignite and spread.The state is currently home to the largest wildfire burning in the US. By Friday afternoon, the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Durkee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Durkee</a> fire had burned nearly 290,000 acres (117,000 hectares) and was only 20% contained. The fire had forced evacuations, shut down a major interstate highway and even produced its own weather system.The Durkee fire is one of more than 100 lightning-ignited fires, including four “<a href="https://c.im/tags/megafires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#megafires</a>”, that have started over the past week and are currently raging in the eastern and central parts of Oregon. A megafire is defined by National Interagency Fire Center as blazes that have burned more than 100,000 acres (40,000 hectares).The more than 1 million acres (405,000 hectares) charred so far have already 🔸quadrupled last year’s total 🔸and are approaching the massive 2020 season, which saw 1.2 million acres burned. The fire season typically runs until autumn rains arrive in mid-September, but bad years can see blazes burn into October.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/27/oregon-wildfire-season?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/27/oregon-wildfire-season?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

Social Display EuropeOur consortium partner <a href="https://mastodon.world/@eldiarioes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@eldiarioes</a> traveled to areas in Greece, Portugal, and Spain affected by three of the worst mega-fires recorded in Europe in recent years to understand what lessons we have learned and whether we are better prepared for such increasingly frequent phenomena.Read what they found out here:<a href="https://displayeurope.eu/article/mega-fires-are-burning-across-europe-are-we-prepared/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://displayeurope.eu/article/mega-fires-are-burning-across-europe-are-we-prepared/</a><a href="https://displayeurope.social/tags/megafires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#megafires</a> <a href="https://displayeurope.social/tags/spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spain</a> <a href="https://displayeurope.social/tags/greece" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#greece</a> <a href="https://displayeurope.social/tags/portugal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#portugal</a> <a href="https://displayeurope.social/tags/eu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eu</a> <a href="https://displayeurope.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climatechange</a> <a href="https://displayeurope.social/tags/europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#europe</a>

O=C=O52,000 km2 of 'long unburnt' Australian habitat has vanished in 40 yearsFire regimes are changing across the globe, stoked by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climate</a> and land-use change. Recent <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/megafires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#megafires</a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Brazil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Brazil</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a> epitomize the dire consequences of shifting fire regimes for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humanity</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> alike. We found areas of long unburnt vegetation are shrinking. Meanwhile, areas of recently burnt vegetation are growing. And fires are burning more frequently.<a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-04-puff-square-kilometers-unburnt-australian.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2024-04-puff-square-kilometers-unburnt-australian.html</a>

CoolMcCoolAs we wake up to a smokey morning as <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> prepares for another <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/bushfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bushfire</a> season, I'm remembering the 2019-20 <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/megafires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#megafires</a>, when the smoke was as thick as soup. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/p/Coolmccool/606626456171101771" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://pixelfed.social/p/Coolmccool/606626456171101771</a><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/climatemergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climatemergency</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/WhyAreWeOpeningUPMoreCoalmines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhyAreWeOpeningUPMoreCoalmines</a>

NSW.BiodiversityLyrebirds are social learners and mastering their vocalisations requires a lot of practice. Working hard to impoverish lyrebid vocalisations: habitat degradation, fossil fuel cacophony, and bushfires.<a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-16/lyrebirds-catalyst-sound-protecting-vocal-diversity/102583278" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-16/lyrebirds-catalyst-sound-protecting-vocal-diversity/102583278</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#birds</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#culture</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/MegaFires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MegaFires</a>

Saint PalermoWow! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MegaFires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MegaFires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wildfires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateFires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateFires</a> <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=GEyxORwJqKk&feature=share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/watch?v=GEyxORwJqKk&feature=share</a>

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