GFMC: Recent Media Highlights on Fire, Policies, and Politics
Recent Media Highlights on Fire, Policies, and Politics
December 2014
- USA: Feds seen as coming competition to private aerial firefighters (published by www.digitaljournal.com 31 December 2014)
- Australia: Fighting fire with science (published by www.queenslandcountrylife.com 31 December 2014)
- Indonesia: As the forests burn, activists place hopes on Jokowis green policies (published by www.todayonline.com 31 December 2014)
- Uruguay: Uruguay presenta un estudio climático para prevenir los incendios forestales (published by www.holaciudad.com 30 December 2014)
- Australia: Residents near Victorian bushfire told ‘it’s too late to leave’ (published by http://tvnz.co 29 December 2014)
- Australia: Vic govt bans Alpine cattle grazing (published by www.9news.com 29 December 2014)
- India-Nepa: Air pollution haze over India and Nepal as seen from space (published by www.spaceref.com 28 December 2014)
- India: Javadekar climbs PMs satellite tree to give forests ISRO cover (published by www.newindianexpress.com 28 December 2014)
- Pakistan: Inferno: Forest fire wreaks havoc in Malam Jabba (published by http://tribune.com 28 December 2014)
- USA: Colt Summit not based on best science (published by http://missoulian.com 26 December 2014)
- Bhutan: Fires destroys more than 100 acres of forest (published by www.kuenselonline.com 26 December 2014)
- Australia: Bushfire payout ends five-year tussle (published by www.bradenton.com 23 December 2014)
- USA: Man injured in fuel tanker fire near Belgrade (published by www.9news.com 22 December 2014)
- España: Unos 1.500 empresarios agrícolas dejan el campo en solo dos años (published by www.laverdad.es 21 December 2014)
- Australia: Committee apologises after man wrongly declared dead in official Hills bushfire review (published by www.perthnow.com 20 December 2014)
- North Korea: GIS applied to analyzing spread of forest fire (published by www.kcna.co 18 December 2014)
- Indonesia: BP REDD+ helps regions monitor forest fires (published by www.thejakartapost.com 18 December 2014)
- Australia: Weather alert as bushfires burn in Victorias northeast (published by www.heraldsun.com 18 December 2014)
- Australia: Man injured in Barossa Valley bushfire (published by www.skynews.com 17 December 2014)
- Australia: One home, 2000 livestock lost to bushfires (published by www.brisbanetimes.com 17 December 2014)
- USA: Sentencing reform clouds California’s inmate firefighting corps (published by http://news.yahoo 17 December 2014)
- Puerto Rico: Incendio arrasó con 150 hectáreas de bosques y sabanas en el Meta (published by www.eluniversal.com 16 December 2014)
- Australia: Hundreds running from massive brush fires in Australia (published by www.kristv.com 16 December 2014)
- Australia: Drones pose risk to firefighters (published by https://au.news.yahoo 15 December 2014)
- Ghana: Fire destroys farm in Gbiligu in the N/R (published by www.spyghana.com 15 December 2014)
- Japan: Japan’s Iwate prefecture orders an AW139 helicopter for firefighting (published by www.aero-news.net 14 December 2014)
- USA: Landslides caused by combination of dry earth, wildfire damage, rainfall (published by www.hngn.com 13 December 2014)
- Portugal: “Arsonists” sentenced to prison for Portugal forest fires (published by www.brudirect.com 13 December 2014)
- Indonesia: UN climate change talks finally feels like they have momentum (published by www.independent.co 12 December 2014)
- Germany / GFMC: “Biikebrennen” A cultural fire tradition has been included in the German UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage on 12 December 2014 (published by https://gfmc.online 12 December 2014)
- Israel: Four years after devastating Carmel forest fire, Israels firefighters now prepared (published by www.breakingisraelnews.com 11 December 2014)
- USA: A future of lightning, and wildfire? (published by http://wildfire.blog 11 December 2014)
- Gambia: Gambia: Govt remains committed to sound environmental management (published by http://allafrica.com 10 December 2014)
- Australia: CFS volunteer dies after being hit by fire truck in South East (published by www.borderchronicle.com 10 December 2014)
- Malaysia: Selangor to spend RM1.04 Million on latest technology to overcome open fires (published by http://malaysiandigest.com 10 December 2014)
- Australia: Above ground bushfire shelter developed by Greek Australian (published by http://neoskosmos.com 09 December 2014)
- Peru: Risks of extreme European summer heat waves rise sharply: study (published by http://planetark.org 09 December 2014)
- Australia: Science fights bushfires on a multitude of fronts (published by www.theage.com 08 December 2014)
- Australia: Black Saturday victim defrauded of $400,000 (published by www.cbc.ca 07 December 2014)
- Canada: 2 dead after series of crashes along Highway 16 (published by www.theage.com 05 December 2014)
- Canada: B.C. wildfire risk to soar with climate change says report (published by http://www.cbc.ca 04 December 2014)
- Indonesia: REDD+ on the ground: For one initiative in Indonesia, politics in the peatlands (published by http://blog.cifor 03 December 2014)
- Zimbabwe: Veld fire related deaths up 300pc (published by www.chronicle.co.zw 02 December 2014)