As 5 major fires—Palisades, Eaton, Hurst, Lidia, Sunset—rage across LA & Southern California, ThePrint looks at the history of wildfires in California & the effect of climate change.
By Jackie Luna, Joe Brock and Matt McKnight LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Raging wildfires surrounded Los Angeles on Wednesday, killing at least five people, destroying hundreds of homes and stretching
Witnesses reported a number of homes on fire and flames near cars as residents fled Topanga Canyon, where the wildfire spread rapidly toward the Pacific Ocean.
The study, led by NASA-JPL scientists and published in Nature, used observational data from a European Space Agency satellite to quantify carbon emissions from these megafires.
While Africa saw 2 major floods highlighting perils of climate change, Europe had its own share of natural disasters. Closer home, it was heatwaves, cyclone & glacial lake outburst.
The case - filed in September 2020 against the 27 EU member states - is the largest climate case ever to be heard by the European Court of Human Rights.
The fire brigade said a probe is underway as there’s possibility that the bodies were of migrants who entered the country illegally because no residents had been reported missing.
The fast-moving inferno, which started on Tuesday, spread from the brush outside of town and ravaged the historic city of Lahaina that was once the capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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