wildfires

A new report released by Greenpeace on the 10th of April 2008 finds that logging in Canada’s Boreal Forest is making global warming worse by releasing greenhouse gases and reducing carbon storage. It also finds that logging makes the forest more susceptible to global warming impacts like wildfires and insect outbreaks, which in turn release more greenhouse gases.

The western half of the continental United States is heating up 70% faster than the world as a whole, with a long list of potential consequences, including drought, heat waves and wildfires.

The HSUS Disaster Services team has ramped up its response to the wildfire emergency in southern California, operating around the clock to rescue, shelter, and provide veterinary care to hundreds of animals.

House Global Warming Select Committee Chairman Ed Markey (D-MA) delivers remarks opening a hearing on the scientific link between a changing climate and the frequency and intensity of wildfires.

President Bush dismissed comparisons between the federal response to Hurricane Katrina and the California wildfires Thursday, saying that getting help to people who are hurting is the most important thing.

Thousands of people in southern California evacuated from their homes due to wildfires are seeking refuge at Qualcomm stadium, where many say they’re getting good care.

Fire crews in southern California have been fighting an exhausting battle this week, on the fire lines sometimes 24 hours a day, in intense heat, while saving homes threatened by wildfires.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger updates the damage totals from the wildfires and gives thanks to the firefighters working day and night to control the flames.

Easing winds have offered firefighters some respite after days of battling wildfires that have killed at least three and caused more than a billion dollars in property damage. The blazes run from Malibu to the Mexican border and have raced across 426,000 acres. AFPTV followed a firefighting team from the US Forest Service overnight in the mountains above San Diego.

Fire crews in southern California are getting a break from fierce winds, and gaining containment on several fires, but the scope and size of the destruction is still growing.

Thousands of evacuees have flocked into San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium to escape California’s wildfires. Old and young, rich and poor, more than 10,000 have formed a well-organized refugee camp in the parking lot of the stadium that usually provides a home to the San Diego Chargers American football team. Voiced report

Eleven members of the Oregon Trail chapter of the Red Cross will head to San Diego on Wednesday while Longview, Wash., volunteers have opened their call center.

The hearing considers scientific assessments of the impacts of global climate change on wildfire activity in the United States.

KFMB-TV reporter Larry Himmel walked viewers through the destruction of his house, as flames still burned.

More than a half million people in Southern California fled wind-whipped wildfires that have killed two people and destroyed more than 1,600 homes.