Etichetta: wildfire
California vineyard laborers wanted wildfire safety. Then came a shadowy counter-movement
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When Margarita García, a 39-year-old mother from Oaxaca, Messico, picks wine grapes during a wildfire, the sky is red and thick with smoke. Ash falls on her face, irritating her throat and eyes. The hot, fast work make...
L'incendio del New Mexico dilaga mentre un nuovo incendio divora le ville della California
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Le condizioni estreme di incendio continuano ad alimentare un enorme incendio nel nord del New Mexico, rendendo difficile per gli equipaggi contenere il più grande incendio negli Stati Uniti, che è cresciuto fino a quasi 260,000 acri acri giovedì. L...
L'incendio del New Mexico si sta diffondendo a nord verso le località turistiche di montagna vicino a Taos
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Molte case vicino al più grande incendio d'America sono sopravvissute all'ultima raffica di venti ululanti e fiamme irregolari, ma martedì il governatore del New Mexico ha affermato che il rischio di ulteriori distruzioni è alto e che i costi a lungo termine di ...
Potentially historic winds forecast as firefighters battle New Mexico wildfire
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Extreme wind conditions described as potentially historic were forecast for New Mexico on Saturday and for the next several days as hundreds of firefighters and a fleet of airplanes and helicopters worked feverishly t...
New Mexico crews battle largest wildfire burning in US as residents flee
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Fire crews were battling on several fronts to keep the largest wildfire burning in the US from pushing into more populated areas as it fed on drought-parched landscape in northern New Mexico. Authorities were encourag...
‘Turning the dial up’: US south-west braces for extended wildfire season amid drastic drought
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Hot, dry winds will continue to spur flames burning through the drought-stricken landscapes in the south-west and the American plains, complicating efforts to extinguish roughly a dozen destructive wildfires that have...
Enormi incendi spazzano la riserva naturale di Canford Heath nel Dorset
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Le famiglie sono state evacuate dalle loro case dopo che un incendio ha colpito la brughiera del Dorset, distruggendo 17 ettari (42 acri) di habitat ricco di fauna selvatica. Canford Heath a Poole è una riserva naturale di 340 ettari...
‘This is not typical’: Arizona wildfire fighters brace for threat ‘on steroids’
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Firefighters working to keep more homes from burning on the edge of a mountain town in northern Arizona were treated to scattered showers and cooler temperatures early on Friday, but the favorable weather was not expe...
Wildfire smoke in Pacific north-west erasing reductions in emissions – study
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The billowing black smoke that has cloaked the US Pacific north-west during wildfire disasters in past years has caused atmospheric carbon monoxide levels to spike, with the contaminants offsetting recent reductions i...
Pacific Gas & Electric agrees to pay $55m to avert California wildfire prosecution
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Pacific Gas & Electric, the nation’s largest utility provider, has agreed to pay more than $55m to avoid criminal prosecution for two large wildfires started by its ageing power lines in northern California. PG&am...
Big Sur wildfire burns near California highway – video
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Hundreds of people in California were told to evacuate because of a new blaze as authorities were forced to shut one of the state's main highways. Firefighters were battling the blaze that broke out in rugged mountain...
Big Sur wildfire causes evacuations as Harris visits state to tout federal plan
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On the day Vice-President Kamala Harris visited California to highlight new funding for fighting wildfires, residents in the Big Sur area in the north of the state were told to evacuate due to a new blaze. The wind-d...
Human remains found near suspected origin of Colorado wildfire
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Investigators have found partial human remains in an area near the suspected origin of the destructive Colorado blaze that broke out last Thursday. In un comunicato di mercoledì, the Boulder county sheriff’s office said...
Revisiting Greenville: the mountain town destroyed by California’s largest wildfire
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At least once a week April Wielputz jogs down Main Street in Greenville, California, as she has for years. But now the exercise takes her past piles of charred brick and warped metal that once constituted the 19th-cen...
Colorado wildfire investigation could take days or weeks, says county sheriff
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Federal and state investigators have interviewed dozens of people in their search for the cause of a destructive Colorado wildfire but the investigation could take days if not weeks, the Boulder county sheriff warned....
Colorado wildfire: officials investigate blaze that destroyed nearly 1,000 le case
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Investigators are trying to determine what sparked a massive fire in a suburban area near Denver that burned neighborhoods to the ground and destroyed nearly 1,000 homes and other buildings. Three people are missing. ...