April (All News)
Recent Media Highlights on Fire, Policies, and Politics
- USA – Loggers return to native forests burnt in summer bushfires (30 April 2020)
- BRAZIL – Brazilian Vice President says army will be deployed to fight Amazon deforestation and fires (30 April 2020)
- USA – Forest Service debuts state-by-state statistics on carbon (28 April 2020)
- RUSSIA – Siberian Officials Suspected of Starting Wildfires (29 April 2020)
- RUSSIA – Natural forest fires may begin in Russia in May, weather expert says (29 April 2020)
- INDONESIA – Gov’t to Use Artificial Rains to Prevent Peat Wildfires (28 April 2020)
- BELIZE – Airplane from Spanish Lookout loaded with water to douse Belmopan-area fires tomorrow (28 April 2020)
- USA – Red Cross Preps for Wildfire Evacuations with Social Distancing
- MEXICO – In the midst of the pandemic,Yucatan fights relentless forest fires (28 April 2020)
- UKRAINE – Zhytomyr region sees new forest fire outbreak spreading to nearby nature reserve (28 April 2020)
- BELIZE – Forest Department Wildland Fire Crew responds to fires in Vaca Forest Reserve (27 April 2020)
- USA – Professional Private Wildland Fire Services Stands Ready to Respond for 2020 Fire Season (27 April 2020)
- GERMANY/US – Garrison firefighters help German crews battle forest fires (27 April 2020)
- UKRAINE – Wenn radioaktive Wälder brenne (23 April 2020)
- USA – USFS reverts to ‘old’ fire plan in time of coronavirus (24 April 2020)
- USA – Arizona wildfire officials say COVID-19 will change the way they battle wildfires (24 April 2020)
- AUSTRALIA/GLOBAL Australian bushfire smoke cloud continues to circle the earth, one of the largest ever observed (23 April 2020)
- THAILAND – Key to controlling wildfires lies with communities (23 April 2020)
- BRAZIL – Satellite data show Amazon rainforest likely drier, more fire-prone this year (23 April 2020)
- UKRAINE – The stubborn Ukrainian tradition behind forest fires in Chornobyl (23 April 2020)
- UKRAINE – Regional Eastern Europe Fire Monitoring Center (REEFMC) Press Release: large wildfires near Chernobyl (22 April 2020)
- INDIA – Over 1.5k forest workers threaten to boycott work (22 April 2020)
- AUSTRALIA – How Australia’s Wilderness Is Recovering From Wildfires (23 March 2020)
- UK – How moors ravaged by the ‘worst fire in living memory’ are becoming Britain’s newest forest (23 March 2020)
- AUSTRALIA – Bushfire smoke, pollution responsible for over 400 excess deaths (23 March 2020)
- USA – PG&E to plead guilty to 84 involuntary manslaughter counts over 2018 wildfire (23 March 2020)
- USA – PG&E, SCE abandon big microgrid plans for temporary emergency measures as wildfire season nears (23 March 2020)
- AUSTRALIA – Toxic smoke from Australia’s deadly bushfire season killed over 400 people – more than 10 times the death toll from the blazes themselves (21 March 2020)
- NIGERIA – International Day of Forest: Forests are more than just trees (21 March 2020)
- AUSTRALIA – Fallout from Australia’s Large Wildfires Is Choking Rivers (21 March 2020)
- AUSTRALIA – Call for Indigenous burning program used on remote cattle station to be adopted elsewhere (20 March 2020)
- USA – How the Coronavirus Crisis May Hinder Efforts to Fight Wildfires (20 March 2020)
- AUSTRALIA – Changes to development controls for bush fire prone land (20 March 2020)
- AUSTRALIA – Australian bushfire smoke killed more people than the fires did, study says (20 March 2020)
- USA – Southwest Kansas, Other Parts Of State At Risk For Wildfires (19 March 2020)
- USA – Report: Climate Change Requires a ‘Rethink’ of How Catastrophic Events are Funded (19 March 2020)
- THAILAND – Forest fire hikes up PM2.5 in Chiang Mai (19 March 2020)
- GLOBAL – The effect of wildfires on sustainable development (23 January 2020)
- AUSTRALIA – Indigenous groups tell Scott Morrison of ‘deep sorrow’ at bushfire devastation (23 January 2020)
- AUSTRALIA – Survey Reveals: Bushfires Cost 1.8 million Work Days, Leave 5 Million Sick from Smoke (23 January 2020)
- USA – San Diego attorney wants to send utilities CEOs to jail if they lie about wildfire prevention measures (23 January 2020)
- USA – Pollution in New York linked to wildfires hundreds of miles away (22 January 2020)
- EUROPE – Wildfires show us how the climate emergency is already affecting Europe (22 January 2020)
- USA – Wildfires report, drawn from California’s historic fires in 2017 and 2018, shares insights to help reduce future losses (22 January 2020)
- GREECE – Simiza Traganou: Ashes of 50 acres of forest (22 January 2020)
- INDIA – Most forest fires in India on account of human activity (22 January 2020)
- GLOBAL – Bushfire education is too abstract. We need to get children into the real world (21 January 2020)
- AUSTRALIA – Black Summer fires royal commission receives 400 submissions, victims call for extension (20 April 2020)
- IRELAND – Scientists to count carbon emissions of country’s escalating wildfires (20 April 2020)
- CHINA – 1,000 people battling forest fire in China’s Yunnan (19 April 2020)TIBET/CHINA – Over 2,600 dispatched to fight forest fire in Tibet (17 April 2020)
- GREECE/UKRAINE – Greece Not Affected By Chernobyl Forest Fire, Experts Declare (17 April 2020)
- UKRAINE – Firefighters Battle New Blazes In Ukraine’s Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (17 April 2020)
- AUSTRALIA – Bushfire Royal Commission into Australia’s harrowing ‘Black Summer’ begins in Canberra (16 April 2020)
- UKRAINE – Regional Eastern Europe Fire Monitoring Center (REEFMC) Press Release: large wildfires near Chernobyl (16 April 2020)
- THAILAND – Forest fires rage in northern Thailand (16 April 2020)
- AUSTRALIA – Wildfire smoke worsens coronavirus risk, putting firefighters in extra danger (15 April 2020)
- USA – Trump Administration Halts Wildfire Prevention Tool in California Over Coronavirus (15 April 2020)
- UKRAINE – Regional Eastern Europe Fire Monitoring Center (REEFMC) Press Release: large wildfires near Chernobyl (14 April 2020)
- UKRAINE – Losses from fire in Chornobyl reach tens of millions of hryvnias | KyivPost – Ukraine’s Global Voice (13 April 2020)
- USA – Wildfire season in Arizona this year is expected to be as bad as 2019 (12 April 2020)
- UKRAINE – Chernobyl Wildfires Reignite, Stirring Up Radiation (11 April 2020)
- USA – Coronavirus Already Affecting Firefighters Training For Wildfire Season (09 April 2020)
- USA – Coronavirus forces new approaches to fighting wildfires (09 April 2020)
- UKRAINE – Chernobyl forest wildfire seen from space as radiation spikes (photo) (09 April 2020)
- UKRAINE – Firefighters battle blaze around Chernobyl’s defunct nuclear plant (08 April 2020)
- CROATIA – Smoke from forest fire drifts over Dubrovnik this morning (08 April 2020)
- AUSTRALIA – Firies cleared for hazard reduction burns but with new hygiene rules (07 April 2020)
- THAILAND – Local Gov’t Lacks Means to Tackle Wildfires Raging in North, NGOs Say (07 April 2020)
- AUSTRALIA – Rethinking crisis communications (07 April 2020)
- UKRAINE – Multiple fires around Kyiv, Chornobyl pollute air, destroy nature (05 April 2020)
- AUSTRALIA – How do bushfire victims follow COVID-19 social distancing measures after losing their homes? (04 April 2020)
- UKRAINE – Ukraine Says Fire Extinguished Near Contaminated Site Of Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster (04 April 2020)
- CHINA – China’s Yunnan implements closed-off management on forests (03 April 2020)
- AUSTRALIA – After a disastrous summer, Australia braces for yet another plague (03 April 2020)
- THAILAND – Thailand seeks Myanmar, Laos cooperation to fight haze (03 April 2020)
- AUSTRALIA – Housing needed on Kangaroo Island due to bushfire, COVID-19 coronavirus impact (03 April 2020)
- USA – Letter to Bernhardt and Perdue on Fire Readiness & COVID19 (02 April 2020)
- USA – Trump Administration Finalizes Rangeland Wildfire Plan (02 April 2020)
- MEXICO – 50 Active Forest Fires in Mexico (01 April 2020)
- RUSSIA – The forestry Agency has warned about the elevated risk of forest fires in the Russian regions (01 March 2020)
- MEXICO – 50 Active Forest Fires in Mexico (01 April 2020)
- RUSSIA – The forestry Agency has warned about the elevated risk of forest fires in the Russian regions (01 March 2020)
- AUSTRALIA – Victoria’s plans for logging in bushfire zones ‘grossly irresponsible’ (01 April 2020)
- CHINA – Fire danger worse than last year in many regions (01 April 2020)
