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Professor David Bowman said that,
because many of the fires in Australia this month appear to have burnt rapidly through grassland,
it made for difficult firefighting conditions.
“You can’t fight these things in the same way you fight a forest fire
because they’re travelling so quickly with high winds.
Everything you’re trying to do was being controlled by the wind,” he said.
Professor Bowman said, if heatwave conditions continued in Victoria,
the e…

Hundreds of satellite images capture Victoria's destructive bushfires erupting
Hundreds of images captured by an orbiting weather satellite, and stitched together by the ABC, show the scale and destructive force of the Victorian bushfires.

When bushfires make their own weather #environment

When bushfires make their own weather
Bushfires are strongly driven by weather: hot, dry and windy conditions can combine to create the perfect environment for flames to spread across the landscape.

We gaan ze missen, als uitzicht en als bron van bijvoorbeeld Rijn en Rhône:
Gletsjers verdwijnen nog sneller dan gedacht, vooral in de Alpen en Scandinavië | de Volkskrant
https://archive.ph/CZ3fD

Der Postdoktorand erschien zur Besprechung seines Buchmanuskripts mit einem kleinen Glas selbstgemachten Gomasios.

Trump's redistricting campaign isn't going well (Cameron Peters/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/468844/indiana-redistricting-trump-backfiring-california-virginia
http://www.memeorandum.com/251114/p124#a251114p124

Mein Lieblingsbaum, eine alte Erle am Bach hinterm Haus, wurde gestern um gesägt. 😭
In ihr tobte das Leben! Viele Vögel nutzen ihn zum Rasten, als Ausguck, Nahrungsquelle, Unterschlupf... Spechte, Kleiber, Tauben, Krähen, Sperber, Rotmilan...
Auch Eichhörnchen konnte ich dort oft beobachten .
Er war wunderschön und im Winter bezaubernd.
Ich vermisse ihn schmerzlich.
#Biodervisität

How media coverage of Trump's AI EO overstated federal authority over states and overlooked how the order's interstate commerce argument could backfire (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/12/trump-pretends-to-…

Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal
The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you’d think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across…

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Nilüfer Yanya:
🎵 Just A Western (Boy Harsher Remix)
#NowPlaying #NilüferYanya
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Judges Neomi Rao and Justin Walker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Friday night
blocked D.C. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg from beginning his scheduled Alien Enemies Act case contempt proceedings next week.
Judge J. Michelle Childs, a Biden appointee, would not have granted the stay.
The “administrative stay” issued by two Trump appointees on the appeals court after the close of business on Friday blocking Boasberg’s contempt proceedings <…

Breaking: D.C. Circuit's Trump appointees again block Judge Boasberg's contempt inquiry
DOJ keeps going to the D.C. Circuit, where Trump appointees on the court have repeatedly stopped the district court's effort to hold the Trump admin accountable.

Australia heat wave stokes risk of catastrophic bushfires #Australia

'Hectic' bushfires threaten rural towns in Australian heat wave
Bushfires destroyed houses and razed vast belts of forest in southeast Australia on Friday, firefighters said, as hot winds fanned "hectic" conditions in the tinder-dry countryside.