Climate change and fires: Bolivia's forests in peril

2021-11-11T10:19+0100terradaily (en)

The road through San Matias, Bolivia, is a no man's land. Hundreds of thousands of hectares of once lush forest are now a wasteland of twisted, carbonized tree stumps. It is a protected area, but San Matias -- which also hosts subsistence farmers, cattle ranches and quartz mines -- burns every year as land is cleared for the next planting season.

Climate change and fires: Bolivia's forests in peril

2021-11-10T10:57+0100phys (en)

It is a protected area, but San Matias—which also hosts subsistence farmers, cattle ranches and quartz mines—burns every year as land is cleared for the next planting season. The practice is legal during May and June, after the rainy season, with each farmer allowed to burn 20 hectares—also in the....

Climate change and fire: endangered Bolivian forests

2021-11-10T10:55+0100floridanewstimes (en)

The road through San Matthias in Bolivia is a no-man’s land. Hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest, once lush, are now a wasteland of twisted, carbonized tree stumps. Although a protected area, San Matthias, with its self-sufficient farmers, ranches and quartz mines, burns every year as the land is cleared for the next planting season.

Climate change and fires: Bolivia's forests in peril

2021-11-10T03:09+0100digitaljournal (en)

The road through San Matias, Bolivia, is a no man’s land. Hundreds of thousands of hectares of once lush forest are now a wasteland of twisted, carbonized tree stumps. It is a protected area, but San Matias — which also hosts subsistence farmers, cattle ranches and quartz mines — burns every year as land is cleared for the next planting season.

Climate Change And Fires: Bolivia's Forests In Peril

2021-11-10T02:57+0100barrons (en)

The practice is legal during May and June, after the rainy season, with each farmer allowed to burn 20 hectares -- also in the reserve located in Bolivia's eastern Santa Cruz department, near the border with Brazil . The limit is often deliberately exceeded, and the fines negligible.

Climate change and fires: Bolivia's forests in peril

2021-11-10T02:48+0100yahoo-sg (en)

The road through San Matias, Bolivia, is a no man's land. Hundreds of thousands of hectares of once lush forest are now a wasteland of twisted, carbonized tree stumps. It is a protected area, but San Matias -- which also hosts subsistence farmers, cattle ranches and quartz mines -- burns every year as land is cleared for the next planting season.

10/11/2021 Climate change and fires: Bolivia's forests in peril

2021-11-10T02:41+0100rfi-en (en)

It is a protected area, but San Matias -- which also hosts subsistence farmers, cattle ranches and quartz mines -- burns every year as land is cleared for the next planting season. The practice is legal during May and June, after the rainy season, with each farmer allowed to burn 20 hectares -- also....

‘Controlling the weather’?: The US army HAARP conspiracy theory

2021-11-07T11:13+0100france24-en (en)

From deadly floods in China to massive forest fires in Turkey, people online have been talking about the natural disasters we saw in the summer of 2021. But some, especially on TikTok and Twitter, are saying weather events like these are caused by something called HAARP, a so-called climate-control device used by the US government.

EXPLAINER: What’s the difference between 1.5°C and 2°C of global warming?

2021-11-07T08:48+0100inquirer (en)

“We never had such a global warming in only a few decades”, said climate scientist Daniela Jacob at the Climate Service Center Germany. “Half a degree means much more extreme weather, and it can be more often, more intense, or extended in duration.” Just this year, torrential rains flooded China and Western Europe, killing hundreds of people.

Antarctica burned with forest fires when dinosaurs roamed Earth, says study

2021-10-30T08:31+0200menafn (en)

- BreezyScroll) When we think of Antarctica, we think of unending ice sheets and also cute-looking penguins. It’s difficult to imagine anything other. Antarctica is a barren wasteland with little vegetation and few animals. Can we even envision dinosaurs moving around in Antarctica amid massive....

Extreme weather: the worrying consequences of climate change ahead of Cop26

2021-10-29T23:57+0200telegraph (en)

In August the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said July had been earth’s hottest month since records began 142 years ago. To pick the month of June as an example, this year the contiguous US and North America as a whole, the continent of Africa, and individual countries including....

Un murale creato con le ceneri delle foreste bruciate in Amazzonia: l’opera “denuncia” dello street artist Mundano

2021-10-29T10:25+0200ohga (it)

Un viaggio di 10mila chilometri attraverso quattro biomi dello stato del Brasile , per raccogliere due quintali di cenere prodotta dagli alberi bruciati nella foresta amazzonica. Il fine non è solo quello di ristrutturare un edificio di San Paolo, ma quello di mandare un messaggio forte e....

Antarctica's lush forests were hit by a massive fire that raged 75 million years ago

2021-10-27T17:27+0200thetimeshub (en)

Dinosaurs flee from a wildfire in Antarctica/Maurilio Oliveira. When dinosaurs roamed the Earth and Antarctica was covered in lush rainforest, wildfires raged across the southern continent. What Antarctica looked like tens of millions of years ago. During the Late Cretaceous ( 66-100 million years....