The wildfire ripping through Canada could be the costliest natural disaster in its history…And more
The wildfire ripping through Canada could be the costliest natural disaster in its history
An evacuee from the Fort McMurray wildfires sits on a bed at an evacuation centre in Lac la Biche, Alberta, Canada, May 7, 2016.
Alberta (Reuters) – Canadian officials on Sunday showed some optimism for the first time that they were beginning to get on top of the country’s biggest wildfire, as cooler weather and light rain stopped the blaze from growing as much as feared and winds took the flames away from oil sands boomtown Fort McMurray. “It definitely is a positive point for us, for sure,” said Alberta fire official Chad Morrison in a news briefing, when asked if the fight to contain the flames had a reached a turning point. “We’re obviously very happy that we’ve held the fire better than expected,” said Morrison. “This is great firefighting weather…
Researchers say some parts of the globe will become so hot they’ll be uninhabitable
Man-made climate change is a problem that simply won’t go away. It will increase the likelihood of conflict in water-scarce regions for one thing, and there’s already some evidence that it played a vital role in sparking the initial uprising in Syria back in 2011. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and the Cyprus Institute in Nicosia have been studying the effects of climate change on the notoriously dry and hot Middle East and North African regions for some time, and they have come to a chilling conclusion…
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