Climate

The wildfire has grown to over 413K acres and is currently 53 percent contained, according to the InciWeb national wildfire information system.

A proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency on rules to take strides towards combatting climate change is expected to be released as early as next week.

In response transportation officials noted the "susceptibility of all of Boston and its infrastructure to rising sea levels."

"Everybody is gonna be selling their cows, so it's probably smarter now to do it while the price is up before the market gets flooded," rancher Buzz Bates said.

The U.S. Geological Survey announced Saturday that average daily water levels had dropped about an inch below the previous 1963 record of 4,191.4 feet.

The Bootleg Fire is the largest active wildfire in the U.S. and the third-largest wildfire in Oregon's history.

"Our firefighters have put in an incredible amount of hard work on this fire," said Joe Hessel of the Oregon Department of Forestry Incident Management Team.

The advent of climate change means deadly heat waves like the one that swept through the Pacific Northwest earlier this summer are likely to become more common.

The Dixie Fire, which burned 223 square miles by Friday morning, is the largest wildfire California has seen so far in 2021.

"Today we learnt that vinyl doesn't like heatwaves," the man who sacrificed a Demi Lovato album jokingly concluded.

A philanthropic group dedicated to increasing funding for environmental justice efforts is pushing for major donors to make their allocations public.

We will need to grow renewables to win on climate change, and we need competitive electricity models to get there.

A meteorologist with the National Weather Service said the phenomenon of wildfire smoke traveling thousands of miles east has emerged over the past two years.

The cloud seeding efforts, which use electrical charges to prompt rainfall, contributed to stormy weather rarely seen in the United Arab Emirates.

After the local cemetery in Ahrweiler, Germany, had flooded and washed away most of the tombstones, officials were trying to find ways to bury the dead.

After a weekend of unusually heavy rainfall, the banks of major rivers overflowed and caused severe flooding across China's Henan province on Tuesday.

"It is not a mystery that China and the U.S. have many differences. But on climate, cooperation is the only way to break free from the world's current mutual suicide pact,'' he said.

"We are prepared for the worst, and hoping for the best," Mike McCann said in a statement released by the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest.

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The UNESCO committee deemed the Great Barrier Reef "in danger." Australian government suspected it was a political move on China's part.

Air quality has taken a major hit due to wildfires in Oregon, with fire clouds in the state also reaching dangerous levels.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) was reportedly headed to a Texas fundraising event hosted by Republican donors from the oil industry two days after saying that a Democratic plan to eliminate fossil fuels would make climate change "worse."

The fire doubled in size almost daily early on, with strong winds from the south on Thursday afternoon pushing the flames rapidly to the north and east.

The island's government says it "wants to take co-responsibility for combating the global climate crisis."

Parts of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands were hit with around two months' worth of rain on Thursday.

"They want to get rid of [fossil fuel], and thinking that's going to clean up the global climate, it won't clean it up all. If anything, it would be worse," Manchin said.

"This fire is going to continue to grow," said an incident commander. "The extremely dry vegetation and weather are not in our favor."

The fire, which is about 28 miles northeast of Klamath Falls, was first reported by officials on July 6 and has an estimated containment date of November 30.

The protesters are demanding that the fast food giant moves to an entirely plant-based menu by 2025.

A public information officer for the Bootleg Fire wrote to Newsweek that the estimated containment date was set in November because officials "will have a great deal of mop-up, repair and recovery to complete."