February (All News)
Recent Media Highlights on Fire, Policies, and Politics
February 2019
- INDIA: Blanket ban on fuel removal in forests hindering fire management: WB study (Published by https://www.thehindu.com/ 28 February 2019)
- UK: ‘Rewetting work at Marsden has saved moors from more wild fires’ (Published by https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/ 28 February 2019)
- USA: CA Governor Wants $40M for More CAL FIRE Firefighters (Published by https://www.firehouse.com/ 28 February 2019)
- INDIA: Forest fires in India tripled in the last four months (Published by https://www.downtoearth.org.in/ 27 February 2019)
- PERU: The Economist: El cambio climático y la amenaza para las empresas (Published by https://gestion.pe/ 27 February 2019)
- USA: PG&E drops 4% after report it delayed safety work on power line linked to wildfire (Published by https://www.cnbc.com/ 27 February 2019)
- RUSSIA: Train on Trans-Siberian railway goes through wall of fire from grass and forest inferno (Published by http://siberiantimes.com 27 February 2019)
- UK: Wildfires Rage in Britain After Record Temperatures (Published by https://www.nytimes.com/ 27 February 2019)
- USA: Wildfires could get smaller in the future, new models predict (Published by https://www.upi.com/ 26 February 2019)
- INDIA: Forest fire in TN spreads to 250 acres (Published by https://newstodaynet.com/ 26 February 2019)
- CANADA: Why Canada’s boreal forest is gaining international attention (Published by https://thenarwhal.ca/ 26 February 2019)
- USA: Wildfire firefighting technology bill headed to Trump, would expand drone mapping and GPS (Published by https://www.kiro7.com/ 26 February 2019)
- USA: Alaska in Flux: Wildfire Recovery Paints Alaska Green (Published by https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ 26 February 2019)
- INDONESIA: Thousand of Riau residents suffer respiratory problems due to haze (Published by: https://en.antaranews.com 26 February 2019)
- USA: Dangerous Wildfire-Generated Pyrocumulonimbus Cloud Thunderstorms Are on the Rise (Published by https://weather.com/ 26 February 2019)
- BELARUS: Allowing ‘The Lungs of Europe’ to breathe again (Published by https://www.undp.org/ 25 February 2019)
- INDONESIA: Governor calls on people to cultivate peatlands for farming (Published by https://en.antaranews.com/ 25 February 2019)
- KENYA: Kenya Forest Services puts out bush fire in Mt Kenya forest (Published by http://www.kbc.co.ke/ 25 February 2019)
- INDONESIA: Indonesia takes steps to prevent wildfires ahead of El Nino (Published by https://www.straitstimes.com/ 25 February 2019)
- CHILE: Gobierno presentará querella contra responsables de incendio en cerro San Cristóbal (Publishe by https://www.cooperativa.cl/ 25 Febrero 2019)
- CHILE: After Earthquakes and Volcanoes, Chile Is Threatened by New Natural Disaster (Published by https://www.bloomberg.com/ 25 February 2019)
- USA: OSU ramping up research to better predict wildfire behavior (Pùblished by https://www.eurekalert.org 25 February 2019)
- INDIA: Fire destroys 50 acres of forest land in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (Published by http://www.newindianexpress.com/ 25 February 2019)
- INDIA: Chamarajanagar: Wildfire at Bandipur – 3,000 hectares of forest land destroyed (Published by https://www.daijiworld.com/
25 February 2019) - USA: Inmate Firefighters May Get Chance To Fight Fires After Their Sentence Is Up (Published by https://sacramento.cbslocal.com 25 February 2019)
- MONGOLIA: Mongolia beefs up prevention of forest, steppe fires (Published by http://www.xinhuanet.com/ 25 February 2019)
- CHILE: Gobierno presentará querella contra responsables de incendio en cerro San Cristóbal (Publishe by https://www.cooperativa.cl/ 25 Febrero 2019)
- CHILE: After Earthquakes and Volcanoes, Chile Is Threatened by New Natural Disaster (Published by https://www.bloomberg.com/ 25 February 2019)
- INDIA: Fire at government-run airshow in India destroys hundreds of cars (Published by https://www.reuters.com 23 Ferbuary 2019)
- USA: Wildfires Worse for Children’s Immune Health Than Planned Fires (Published by https://www.mdmag.com/ 23 February 2019)
- AUSTRALIA: Researchers Uncover Just How Damaging Fires and Logging Are to Forest Soil (Published by https://psmag.com/ 22 February 2019)
- USA: Utility Defends Delays in Eliminating Wildfire Risks (Published by https://www.courthousenews.com/ 22 February 2019)
- PHILIPPINES: Forest fire kills at least 5 in Itogon, Benguet (Published by https://www.gmanetwork.com/ 22 February 2019)
- AUSTRALIA: Bushfire at Cape Le Grand, National Park closes (Published by https://www.esperanceexpress.com.au/ 21 February 2019)
- ISRAEL/PALESTINE: Report: IDF drone fires at Gaza motorbike after arson balloons launched at south (Published by https://www.timesofisrael.com/ 21 February 2019)
- SPAIN: ‘It eats everything’—the new breed of wildfire that’s impossible to predict (Published by https://phys.org/ 21 February 2019)
- INDONESIA: Indonesian fires robbed kids of height and future income (Published by https://www.futurity.org/ 21 February 2019)
- AUSTRALIA: Bushfire at Cape Le Grand, National Park closes (Published by https://www.esperanceexpress.com.au/ 21 February 2019)
- TURKEY: Surprising findings on forest fires (Published by https://www.sciencedaily.com/ 21 February 2019)
- THAILAND/LAOS: Thailand, Laos launch forest fire prevention campaign (Published by https://en.vietnamplus.vn/ 21 February 2019)
- USA: Wildfire victims may become low priority in PG&E bankruptcy case (Published by https://www.eastbaytimes.com/ 20 February 2019)
- INDONESIA: Emergency declared over Indonesian peat fires (Published by https://www.ucanews.com/ 20 February 2019)
- USA: How Solar and Batteries Could Help California Manage Fire-Prevention Grid Shutdowns (Published by https://www.greentechmedia.com/ 20 February 2019)
- SPAIN: Fire break requirements for properties in woodland areas (Published by https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/ 20 February 2019)
- SPAIN: Multidisciplinary approach needed to create new wildfire strategies (Published by https://medforest.net 20 February 2019)
- USA: New firefighting foam worth a closer look (Published by https://www.firechief.com/ 20 February 2019)
- USA: For a Warming World, A New Strategy for Protecting Watersheds (Published by https://e360.yale.edu/ 19 February 2019)
- USA: Prenatal forest fire exposure stunts children’s growth (Published by https://www.eurekalert.org/ 19 February 2019)
- CANADA: The Wildfire Within (Published by https://www.iawfonline.org/ 19 February 2019)
- USA: In the Line of Fire (Published by https://www.usnews.com/ 19 February 2019)
- USA: Tiny Homes For Homeless Get The Go-Ahead In The Wake of California’s Worst Wildfire (Published by https://www.npr.org/ 18 February 2019)
- UKRAINE: Large wildfire engulfs forest in Chernobyl’s EXCLUSION ZONE (Published by https://www.rt.com/ 18 February 2019)
- INDONESIA: Forests and/or pants on fire?: Fact-checking Jokowi’s ‘no fires for 3 years’ statement (Published by https://coconuts.co/ 18 February 2019)
- NORWAY/INDONESIA: (Published by https://www.energylivenews.com/ 18 February 2019)
- CHILE: La Araucanía: Brigadistas se movilizaron por malas condiciones laborales (Published by https://www.cooperativa.cl/ 17 February 2019)
- USA: Their Home Survived The Camp Fire — But Their Insurance Did Not (Published by https://www.npr.org/ 17 February 2019)
- INDIA: Forest department launches SMS alerts to notify forest fire incidents (Published by https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ 16 February 2019)
- USA: Failed wildfire evacuation of Santa Rosa care homes fuels new bill to protect seniors (Published by https://www.pressdemocrat.com/ 16 February 2019)
- AUSTRALIA: Territory Police investigating whether Uluru National Park bushfire was intentionally lit (Published by https://www.abc.net.au/ 15 February 2019)
- USA: New Model Proposed to Reduce Wildfire Risk with California Disaster Insurance (Published by http://www.ksro.com/ 15 February 2019)
- CHILE: Incendios forestales dejan a tres personas fallecidas y más de 50 mil hectáreas consumidas (Published by https://www.biobiochile.cl/ 15 February 2019)
- CHILE: Red Alert declared for Pinto due to forest fire inside the Ñuble National Reserve (Published by https://www.biobiochile.cl/ 07 February 2019
- USA: Company pitches roving resilience to communities threatened by wildfires (Published by https://energynews.us/ 07 February 2019)
- CHILE/USA: Neither Ilyushin nor Super Tanker: the American plane that will reach the south to fight fires (Published by https://www.biobiochile.cl/ 06 February 2019)
- CHILE: Moreno ruled out “militarization” of La Araucanía: We are helping mapuche and non-Mapuche (Published by https://www.cooperativa.cl/ 06 February 2018)
- AUSTRALIA: Climate change is poised to deliver more Black Saturdays in decades to come (Published by https://theconversation.com/ 06 February 2019)
- AUSTRALIA: How a bushfire can destroy a home (Published by https://theconversation.com/ 06 February 2019)
- ZAMBIA/US: United States provides Traditional leaders with technology to fight deforestation (Published by https://www.lusakatimes.com 05 February 2019)
- USA: Wildfire victims living in RVs ordered to leave properties (Published by https://gfmc.online/ 04 February 2019)
- CHILE: Two arrested for starting campfire in Conguillío National Park in full fire emergency (Published by https://www.biobiochile.cl/ 04 February 2019)
- AUSTRALIA: Bushfires devastate Tasmanian leatherwood honey production, prices set to rise (Published by https://www.abc.net.au/ 04 February 2019)
- SOUTH AFRICA: A solution to the Western Cape veld fires (Published by https://www.insideeducation.org/ 04 February 2019)
- ISRAEL: Increased lightning hazard ‘almost guarantee’ (Published by https://physicsworld.com/ 04 February 2019)
- AUSTRALIA: ‘Astounded’: former fire chief unloads on politicians over climate change inaction (Published by https://www.smh.com.au/ 04 February 2019)
- CANADA: Smoke from wildfire is like a ‘chemical soup,’ says fire researcher (Published by https://nationalpost.com/ 04 February 2019)
- AUSTRALIA: Greens want inquiry into Tasmanian bushfires that damaged World Heritage Area Published by https://www.abc.net.au/ (04 February 2019)
- INDIA: Fire breaks out in Dibru-Saikhowa Park (Published by http://nagalandpost.com/ 03 February 2019)
- CHILE: Red Alert declared for fires in La Araucanía and Los Ríos: an older adult died calcined (Published by https://www.biobiochile.cl/ 03 February 2019)
- CHILE: Chiloé: They controlled forest fire in El Tepual sector (Published by https://www.cooperativa.cl/ 03 February 2019)
- CHILE: Second fatality was confirmed by forest fires in the Araucanía region (Published by https://www.ahoranoticias.cl 03 February 2019)
- USA: Average size of wildfires continued to increase in 2018 (Published by https://wildfiretoday.com/ 02 February 2019)
- USA: As California wildfires grew, so did PG&E lobbying spending (Published by https://www.sanluisobispo.com/ 02 February 2019)
- USA: How badly did the government shutdown harm wildfire prep? Democrats want answers (Published by https://www.mercedsunstar.com/ 01 February 2019)
- AUSTRALIA: Tasmania’s fire disaster revealed in satellite images showing the extent of the damage (Published by https://www.abc.net.au/ 01 February 2019)
