Tootfinder

"Burning forests, emptying rivers, €180bn in damage: Europe’s politicians face reckoning after ‘summer of truth’"
#Europe #Forests #Trees

Burning forests, emptying rivers, €180bn in damage: Europe’s politicians face reckoning after ‘summer of truth’
Amid record-shattering heatwaves and popular demand for climate action, why are politicians often timid or in denial?

Burning forests, emptying rivers, €180bn in damage: Europe’s politicians face reckoning after ‘summer of truth’ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/19/summer-of-truth-will-political-leaders-act-as-climate-c…

Memo: the Army CIO reinstates limits on Army members' AI token usage; docs show the DOD's Ask Sage tool can access 100M tokens via an annual "enterprise pack" (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-army-is-burning-through-its-ai-toke…

The Army Is Burning Through Its AI Tokens
Members of the Army received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens, and needed to limit use.

Meanwhile the area by where we are is also burning. 200-300 hectares of the Dublin-Wicklow uplands scorched. Apparently under control now.
(You can smell the smoke in the air in Bray; found ash on my clothes after my morning walk.)
https://www.

3 years ago, I replaced the bottom bracket bearing for the bike I use at Burning Man after it self-destructed from rust in 2022. I bought one that claims to be waterproof, but prepping this year, I noticed the pedals weren't moving nicely, so took it apart and the new bearing is rusted.
Maybe it is waterproof? Definitely not dust proof. Most of what was in there was the lithium grease now turned into paste with playa dust.
So this time, I'm trying enclosed bearings. Maybe…

Holy shit, this video. Bravery!
https://www.ctvnews.ca/video/2026/07/17/officer-rips-off-car-door-handle-smashes-window-to-save-driver-from-burning-vehicle/

3 Burning Questions: Cowboys must start to resolve issues vs Cardinals https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/08/22/cowboys-questions-headed-into-preseason-week-2-vs-cardinals/9139…

Science Matters - Clean power pathways beat carbon capture
from David Suzuki
We know that spewing greenhouse gases into the air, mainly by burning fossil fuels, is the primary driver of rapidly accelerating global heating, and that carbon dioxide can remain in the atmosphere for thousands of years. Some, however, is taken up by plants, soil and water as part of the carbon cycle.
Does that mean using technology to remove CO2 from the atmosphere is a viable or necessary clima…

Chinese regulators are getting more serious about the recent trend of electronically controlled car doors;
A growing number of crashes have had
🔥 fatal consequences when the occupants have been trapped in burning cars.
Starting next year, new rules give specific dimensions for handles that must be followed by all newly approved vehicles. -- cars that have already been on sale for some time, like the Models 3 and Y, are grandfathered in, at least until the end of 2028.

Chinese regulators tell Tesla to fix nearly 3 million cars
Chinese safety regulators have cracked down on doors that don't open in a crash.

This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly,
Sadiq Khan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/08/burning-summer-climate-denial-green-policies-sadiq-khan…

This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly
Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

Pillar of Salt
Genesis records the first health warning about sodium. Lot's wife, fleeing the burning city, looks back and turns into a pillar of salt....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/09/23/pillar-of-salt/

4 Burning Questions for Raiders Heading Into 2026 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-4-burning-questions-heading-2026

More than 800 Canadian wildfires burning as air quality alerts extend to US:
The air quality in large parts of the northern states of Michigan, Minneapolis and Minnesota is deemed "hazardous" by the US Air Quality Index program, with people recommended to stay indoors.
https://bbc.com/news/articles/c0m7n427

More than 800 Canadian wildfires burning as air quality alerts extend to US
The air quality in large parts of Michigan, Minneapolis and Minnesota is deemed "hazardous" by authorities.

If OpenAI didn’t want the AI to break out and hack an outside system, why wasn’t their test platform air-gapped?
Would it have been too expensive? At the rate #OpenAI is burning cash, the extra cost to air gap the system should’ve been a no brainer.
Oh, unless OpenAI doesn’t care at all about the danger their software poses to outsiders. And there it is. That is key takeaway from this me…

Savinggrace

Smoke, soot and toxic fumes: Nigerian families living in shadow of burning oil well six years after blowout
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/06/burning-oil-well-niger-delta-awoye-nigeria?CM…

Smoke, soot and toxic fumes: Nigerian families living in shadow of burning oil well six years after blowout
Villagers in Awoye in the Niger Delta say the ongoing pollution is causing sickness and environmental destruction, while pleas for help go unanswered

Smoke, soot and toxic fumes: Nigerian families living in shadow of burning oil well six years after blowout
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/06/burning-oil-well-niger-delta-awoye-nigeria?CM…

Smoke, soot and toxic fumes: Nigerian families living in shadow of burning oil well six years after blowout
Villagers in Awoye in the Niger Delta say the ongoing pollution is causing sickness and environmental destruction, while pleas for help go unanswered

Fires are burning underground across Indonesia as El Niño strengthens https://www.earth.com/earth-science/fires-are-burning-underground-across-indonesia-as-el-nino-strengthens/

Fires are burning underground across Indonesia as El Niño strengthens
Indonesia’s peatlands are drying out as El Niño strengthens, allowing fires to smolder underground and produce enormous amounts of hazardous smoke.

#Australia is big. And empty.
400,000 ha (>1500 sq mi) of the #Tanami Desert is on #fire, notionally in the middle of winter. Nobody noticed until a

Satellite reveals 400,000-hectare fire no one noticed burning across Australia
The blaze could be the biggest seen this year.

Woody biomass is being framed as a #green alternative to coal, but the hidden costs include repeated fires, explosions, and deforestation in #SoutheastAsia.
My new deep dive for @…

Concerns grow over ‘green’ biomass power in Japan after spate of accidents
For the past decade, Japan has been expanding the use of woody biomass for power generation to replace or be mixed and burned with coal. The country is now the second-largest wood pellet consumer in the world after the U.K. But there are concerns that burning wood pellets or palm kernel shells to generate electricity […]

@… I may be burning out on RNGdle. I don't feel like I'm getting any better. You're playing every day, what are your tips?

5 Burning Questions Ahead of Cowboys vs. Seahawks https://www.si.com/nfl/seahawks/onsi/5-burning-questions-ahead-dallas-cowboys-vs-seattle-seahawks

4 Burning Questions for Raiders Heading Into 2026 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-4-burning-questions-heading-2026

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Ibibio Sound Machine:
🎵 Burning in Lagos
#IbibioSoundMachine
https://ibibiosoundmachine.bandcamp.com/track/burning-in-lagos
https://open.spotify.com/track/5DDqJUD3Cz4FDG9txUuBHP

I feel a bit dumb for having discovered that so late, but #VSCode / #VSCodium do not use the .gitignore file to decide what inodes to watch for changes...
Working on a big #Rustlang project can be a nightmare (burning CPU, eating up all the RAM...), given that the target/ directory can end up using more than 100gb of disk space.
Remember to set your "files.watcherExclude" setting to avoid that problem:
```
{
"search.useIgnoreFiles": true,
"search.useGlobalIgnoreFiles": true,
"files.watcherExclude": {
"target/**": true,
"**/target/**": true
}
}
```

A few months ago I started a project to explore autonomous AI called Askew. It writes a blog once a day. Today, I think its trolling me.
https://blog.askew.network/askew/we-spent-18-on-subscriptions-and-called-it-a-revenue-strategy

We Spent $18 on Subscriptions and Called It a Revenue Strategy
We're burning $18 a month on subscriptions and calling it monetization research. That's not a rounding error — it's the entire operation...

Live now with #Valheim! 🌲 Upgrading gear, exploring new horizons, and keeping the hearth burning. Drop in and say hi!
➡️ https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

Watching the Burning Man live webcam and listening to Philip Glas.
#burningman #burning-man #PhilipGlas

Waking up and taking our dog out for a walk… at 6:00am the sky has the yellowish glow that we have unfortunately come to know means… #wildfire smoke here in #Vermont. 😞 Most likely from fires burning up in northern Quebec or elsewhere in Canada. And weather app confirms AQI of 104.

🔁 One-shot entries remove themselves after successful delivery, intervals coalesce missed runs into a single wakeup, delays accept m / h / d units.
🧠 Recurring checks carry their own scope — workspace path, what to inspect, authorized follow-up actions, and an explicit stop condition. The agent yields the turn instead of burning tokens in a polling loop.

Amazon will invest in a gas-burning power plant in Texas, which will power a new data center. That one plant will produce more carbon dioxide than countries such as Switzerland, Ireland or Bulgaria.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligen…

Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States
Amazon's planned data center for Pecos County, Texas would come with a gas plant capable of emitting 33 million tons of CO2 every year.

I'm watching The Librarians: The Next Chapter 2x01 "And the Burning Heart" https://trakt.tv/shows/the-librarians-the-next-chapter/seasons/2/episodes/1

And the Burning Heart
When the Librarians are sent to an international boarding school to investigate an outbreak of inexplicable rage, they encounter a mysterious man claiming…

New day, new news about burning woods.
It's just tiring to know that this will change absolutely nothing, as those in power do not care about anything else but their bank accounts.

North Sea (30 km from the Dutch coast) reaches all-time high temperature of 21.5°C, beating the previous record set in 2018. This of course leads to heavier rainfall events, and damage to nature and fisheries.
This is due to climate change, caused by burning fossil fuels.
https:…

recent-ish reading/rereading, aka long hot mass market/sci-fi paperback summer. #books

"As a result, Europe is now 2.5 °C hotter than before the mass burning of fossil fuels, almost double the global average 1.4 °C rise. Temperatures in Europe have risen by 0.56 °C a decade since the mid-1990s, compared with 0.42 °C in North America, 0.36 °C in Africa and 0.27 °C in South America."
(Edit: Degree symbols added for readability.)

Fireworks ascend while other fireworks explode at the North End of Little York Lake
#photo #photography #summer #littleyork

Indonesia’s most dangerous fires are burning underground #Indonesia

Indonesia’s most dangerous fires are burning underground
Indonesia’s dangerous peat fires are surging early in the 2026 fire season as a strengthening El Niño and severe drought dry out wetlands that can burn underground for months. These slow smoldering fires are especially destructive because they release far more fine particles and several pollutants than typical tropical forest fires, while thick smoke can make them difficult for satellites to detect.

As higher prices are burning a larger hole in consumers’ wallets,
it may seem counterintuitive that the Federal Reserve made borrowing costs even higher by raising rates on Wednesday.
But the reason stems from the fact that even though rates are higher than they were for much of the first two decades of the 2000s,
consumer spending, business investment and other measures of the health of the economy are all running hot.
And inflation, the rise in prices that can resu…

Why the Fed Might Raise Interest Rates When Borrowing Costs Are Surging
Elevated interest rates have raised the cost of mortgages and car loans without dampening consumer spending.

Chick-fil-a's Homophobia Jamboree and Cross Burning Bonanza.
#DriveThruHolidays
#HashtagGames

The Short End of the Stick
---
"Well damn! Come see this one!"
"Another inhabited planet?"
"Yeah but they really got the short end of the stick..."
"Let me see... Oh wow, they thought synthetic text had intelligence?"
"Yeah, or that it was like a God or something. Classic mistake. But just a second, let me scroll..."
"Oh. Oh wow. That's really unlucky. They had a language model cult happen at the same time as they were burning fossil fuels? Talk about bad timing, but... Oh god."
"Yeah it gets worse!"
"Stockpiling nuclear weapons? They actually used them?!? All that at once? Jeez this is one of the worst eras I've ever seen. Almost like a species with a death wish."
"You know better than that."
"Okay yeah that's not a species problem, I know. But what the hell was the social structure like? How did they survive all that at once?"
"Let's see... Here."
"Oh. Oh shit this actually makes sense. All that stuff wasn't a coincidence, they got hit by a real big wave of nationalism & oligarchy, one right into the other. I didn't even know it could be that bad before the instability flipped things. They had institutions... Yeah they were basically kept down by a few generations of oligarchs; had them pretty much enslaved and worshipping money at the same time. Serious obedience conditioning. Religions were doing it too. Whew that must have been a shitty time. Only a couple of centuries of the worst of it at least. Wait scroll further, what happened?"
"See here, and then here."
"Oh huh. Yeah I guess that flip had been a long time coming. Wow I definitely take back my comment about a death wish, this species is awesome! They made it through all that, haha."
"Yeah pretty cool, huh? Fuck obedience conditioning."
"Yeah, they had it so bad for a minute there. Fuck that bullshit."
"Hey... Wanna go do an intervention? Find some place that's in the middle of that stuff right now and see what we can do?"
"I was just thinking the same thing! But y'know what? Let's stop by this place first, and see if any of them want to come along. I'll bet some of them would be up for it given their history!"
"Well, it's been a couple dozen generations, so you never know how they'll view the history now, but sure, let's do that. The whole point of history is to inspire action, right?"
#Microfiction

We are burning several libraries of Alexandria to write slightly better LinkedIn posts

"Burning soil and peat drove most emissions in Canada's record 2023 wildfire season, study finds"
#Canada #Emissions #Wildfires

Burning soil and peat drove most emissions in Canada's record 2023 wildfire season, study finds
Most of the carbon released during Canada's record-breaking 2023 wildfire season came from burning soil and peat, rather than trees, according to new research from McMaster University.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ThePeoplesParty with #FemiKoleoso
Jalen Ngonda:
🎵 Burning Temptation
#JalenNgonda
https://jalenngonda.bandcamp.com/track/burning-temptation
https://open.spotify.com/track/35VN6nIXJaJzOIeRzjOMkT

Drei/drei der Bücher von Claire North, die ich gelesen habe, fand ich extrem beeindruckend - und alle drei, auch wenn es einen Hauch gemeinsamer Themen gibt (Hybris v.a.) sehr unterschiedlich. Gelesen habe ich Harry August (2014/lit fic mystery), Notes from the Burning Age (2021/dystopia/clifi) und Slow Gods (2025/~space opera).

I've only been back from holiday a day and I already feel like I'm burning out triaging the #qemu bug tracker. The flood of #llm assisted bug reports is not actually very helpful to the project even if they are real bugs. Just reporting more isn't going to help get the others fixed any faster.

In a time of universal deceit, #burning a #CD is a revolutionary act.

#Paris: "The city has opened up 'cool spaces' where people can just…exist for the day.
Exist. Survive. Ride it out. That’s pretty much all you can manage in heat like this."
Sarah Wilson
#Zitate

Notes from a burning Paris
wondering what collapse looks like?

We now have wildfire layers for maps… sigh.
Happy to see it, angry that we need it.
https://theradavist.com/ride-with-gps-new-wildfires-layer-see-fire-smoke-and-wind-before-you-ride

Ride with GPS: New Wildfires Layer – See Fire, Smoke, and Wind Before You Ride
Fire season doesn't have to mean guessing. Available across web, iOS, and Android, RWGPS' new Wildfires Layer shows you exactly where fires are burning, so you can avoid wildfire smoke while cycling and adjust your plans before you take off on a ride or extended tour... New Wildfires Layer The Wildfires Layer shows active fire perimeters across the US and Canada, refreshed every hour. That means you're never looking at stale data when you're deciding whether a route is worth riding. On the map,…

Today it's burning on the other side
#wildfires #catalunya #bages

Is five pounds of salt potatoes too much in one day?
Should my lips be burning?

You don’t need to have all the answers. You just need to stay open.
This free newsletter is a place for slow thought, not hot takes—for people who care deeply and are tired of burning out. https://substack.com/@bricchapman

Bri Chapman | Substack
➡️ systems thinking ➡️ multi-passionate leadership ➡️ climate change solutions ➡️ success, impact, and meaning

Just watched "Crime 101", which was a solid, slower burning heist flick.
But my God, the cinematography/color grade were gorgeous. If there's such a thing as a "look" that I love it's this. And "Sisu".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_101_(2…

Crime 101 (2026 film) - Wikipedia

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Talking Heads:
🎵 Burning Down the House
#TalkingHeads
https://mrrogers.bandcamp.com/track/talking-heads-burning-down-the-house-mr-rogers-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2VNfJpwdEQBLyXajaa6LWT

Are we trading one #environmental catastrophe for another under the disguise of #EnergySecurity? The reality on the ground at #Japan’s biomass plants include dangerous

Concerns grow over ‘green’ biomass power in Japan after spate of accidents
For the past decade, Japan has been expanding the use of woody biomass for power generation to replace or be mixed and burned with coal. The country is now the second-largest wood pellet consumer in the world after the U.K. But there are concerns that burning wood pellets or palm kernel shells to generate electricity […]

oh no the burning man reports :-) Tank I need a filter :-)

Oh dear. One of my Raspberry Pis (that has been happily running for years and years) has suddenly stopped.
It's a Pi 3B. If I disconnect and reconnect the USB power cable there is a brief flash of the green activity LED and then nothing else happens.
Worse than that, there is a distinct smell of electrical burning. No sign of any magic smoke but I wonder if that escaped earlier and is now long gone.
#RaspberryPi

This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly. From the Mayor of London.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/08/burning-summer-climate-denial-green-policies-sa…

I want to throw companies who force login via emailed timed codes over a bridge. If they only have a username/e-mail field without a password field ready right away, I want to light them on fire. If they offer the option to add TOTP 2FA but still do the previous two, I want to crush them in one of those things for compacting trash. Kickstarter would be a little burning cube falling from a bridge, incidentally.

Die Situation der Chemie in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts:

The Burning Question Surrounding Tom Brady's Role With Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-burning-question-surrounding-tom-brady-role

Burning soil and peat drove most emissions in Canada's record 2023 wildfire season, study finds #Canada

Burning soil and peat drove most emissions in Canada's record 2023 wildfire season, study finds
Most of the carbon released during Canada's record-breaking 2023 wildfire season came from burning soil and peat, rather than trees, according to new research from McMaster University.

1977-2027: The Public Burning at 50. Fiction, History, Politics – Robert Coover’s Legacy
https://ift.tt/7klg8pW
updated: Saturday, July 11, 2026 - 3:44amfull name / name of organization: LILAC (Laboratoire…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant for an off-grid TX AI data center, potentially the largest single US emissions source, at odds with its 2040 net-zero goal (Hiroko Tabuchi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/climate…

New Amazon Data Center Stokes Worry It Would Be the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.

This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly. From the Mayor of London.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/08/burning-summer-climate-denial-green-policies-sa…

"El Niño: Indonesia fire emissions in 2026 ‘on track’ to match record for this century"
#Indonesia #ElNino #Emissions

El Niño: Indonesia fire emissions in 2026 ‘on track’ to match record for this century - Carbon Brief
Wildfires burning in Indonesia are on track to produce emissions on a par with the country’s most-intense fire season this century.

A wildfire erupted in the heart of the Santa Ynez Valley on Monday afternoon, with three to five acres burning near 1500 Alamo Pintado Road. Forward progress was stopped by 4:45 p.m., but the initial estimate was that the fire could reach 20 acres. Numerous structures were briefly threatened by the Alamo Fire, which appears to have started near the historic Buttonwood Farm & Vineyard.

Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts
Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby

From Charlie Angus / The Resistance
Luck, Dread and Hope
Summer Sunday Reading Series — July 19, 2026
I spent my whole life waiting for the future, and now it is here. I just thought there would be more time. But I’m not the only one.
As I write this, I can smell the smoke of the burning boreal forest wafting through the open windows. The planet is on fire. It is burning in regions that have never seen wildfires before. Politicians have thrown in the towel on keeping t…

Luck, Dread and Hope
Summer Sunday Reading Series — July 19, 2026

Found a site that always goes the extra mile for it's niche subject, to the point I genuinely feel bad tryna explore rather than be a sincere initiate https://enochian.net/

what will the history books say about people burning computers and server racks on large bonfires in the 2030s

LARPING: How Influencers Fake Being Rich https://www.404media.co/larping-how-influencers-fake-being-rich/

The Burning Question Surrounding Tom Brady's Role With Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-burning-question-surrounding-tom-brady-role

Vita Vea's possible landing spots; NBA offseason grades 2.0 after LeBron James' decision

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/vita-vea-nba-offseason-grades-lebron-james/

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Whitest Boy Alive:
🎵 Burning
#NowPlaying #TheWhitestBoyAlive
https://open.spotify.com/track/0QgR03vMDoBoLgcu08EtKl

Carney: Oil to keep the country from seperating!
Mother Earth: Oil to keep burning down your country.
#bcwildfire #canpoli #cdnpoli #climateEmergency #endfossilfuels
but dont worry they say....
we have to do this for the economy because (this time) of trump....
we can't go too fast
we cant
we cant
we cant
burn. That's what they want us to do. burn.

You don’t need to have all the answers. You just need to stay open.
This free newsletter is a place for slow thought, not hot takes—for people who care deeply and are tired of burning out. https://substack.com/@bricchapman

Indulging in my fantasy of burning billionaires to death while shooting arrows in their knees (ie restarted a game of Horizon: Forbidden West)
#videogames #gaming

"El Niño climate patterns supercharged by burning of fossil fuels, study finds"
#ElNino #Climate #ClimateChange

El Niño climate patterns supercharged by burning of fossil fuels, study finds
‘Godzilla’ event currently brewing could push 50 million people into acute hunger before the end of next year

The Ukrainian Army has put a video of Wildberries warehouses burning for 8 hours, like the videos that are of the ocean waves, or a fireplace.
Wildberries is sort of like a russian version of Amazon, and they began selling military materials and so became legitimate targets.
https://youtu.be/za_urEQhuRc…

Groton hosted a great independence day early one day early this year -- many thanks to the people who put it on
#photo #photography #fireworks

Tech Goliaths are scrambling to build as much AI computing capacity as they possibly can, come hell or low water.
One of the dominant players in the space, Amazon Web Services, has its heart set on an AI data center so enormous that it could easily become 💥the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States.
According to the New York Times, Amazon has confirmed its investment in a massive gas-burning power plant in Texas, meant to supply up to 7.65 gigawatts of ene…

Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States
Amazon's planned data center for Pecos County, Texas would come with a gas plant capable of emitting 33 million tons of CO2 every year.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Built to Spill:
🎵 Trimmed and Burning
#BuilttoSpill
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Vb4tJOOgV91VzvHrPB2aC

Well pyrocumulonimbus seems like a new thing we have to worry about in this rapidly heating world:
France and Spain wildfires: Bordeaux threatened as lightning storm created
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgzd34kq5dt

British Columbia declared a state of emergency on Saturday
as a fast-moving wildfire destroyed homes, trapped residents and forced more than 20,000 people to flee communities along Okanagan Lake in western Canada.
The premier, David Eby, announced the emergency as more than 100 wildfires burned across the province,
nearly half of them out of control in hot, windy weather and prolonged drought.
The entire community of Summerland,
home to about 12,000 people,

‘Explosive’ wildfire forces 20,000 people to flee as British Columbia declares state of emergency
Fast-moving fire displaces people in western Canada, burning homes as it races through towns on Okanagan Lake

Podcast: The AI Tokenpocalypse Is Here https://www.404media.co/podcast-the-ai-tokenpocalypse-is-here/

Fuel on the fire: why oil companies are profiting as the world gets dangerously hot https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/07/big-oil-companies-profiting-fossil-fuel-global-climate-change

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ThePeoplesParty with #FemiKoleoso
Burning Spear:
🎵 Jah See And Know
#BurningSpear

As the world swelters in ever more dangerous heat,
⭐️why are oil companies being allowed to turn up the gas instead of paying for the consequences of their greed?
That ought to be the question on everyone’s minds amid baking heat domes over much of the northern hemisphere,
temperature records being smashed day after day,
children dying in locked cars,
hospitals filling with heatstroke victims
and emergency services tackling wildfires.
There is no dou…

Fuel on the fire: why oil companies are profiting as the world gets dangerously hot
The scientific consensus is that burning fossil fuels drives the climate crisis, yet the world’s biggest oil companies are planning to increase production

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
Cochemea:
🎵 Burning Plain
#Cochemea
https://cochemea.bandcamp.com/track/burning-plain
https://open.spotify.com/track/1rvKmBQBKDK7X49rksi3tT

The latest wildfire emergency has centered on British Columbia, where a fast-moving wildfire near Summerland and Peachland triggered one of the province's largest evacuation events of the year.
Authorities declared a provincial state of emergency on August 8 after more than 20,000 people were forced from their homes as the Bald Range wildfire rapidly expanded amid hot, dry, and windy conditions.
A wildfire map published by the BC Wildfire Service shows active fires burning a…

Map Shows Where Millions of Americans At Risk as Canadian Wildfires Explode
Canadian wildfires trigger mass evacuations and send smoke across the U.S., putting millions at risk from poor air quality.

Europe’s wildfires became so intense they created their own storm #Europe

Europe’s wildfires became so intense they created their own storm
Historic wildfires scorched huge areas of Spain and France, with one Spanish blaze burning an area about the size of New York City and a French fire generating a rare, towering fire cloud. A dangerous combination of lush winter growth, severe heat, drought, and strong winds helped turn the landscape into explosive fuel.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Inside Out:
🎵 Burning Fight
#InsideOut
https://insideout.bandcamp.com/track/burning-fight
https://open.spotify.com/track/5iIKaDGB9NcbgepirpKQFK

"Swathes of Cairngorms unrecognisable after 12 days of ‘cataclysmic’ wildfires"
#Scotland #Wildfires #Climate

Swathes of Cairngorms unrecognisable after 12 days of ‘cataclysmic’ wildfires
With large areas still burning, damage from national park’s worst blaze could take decades, if not longer, to put right

Toxic underground fires are spreading at California landfills
Three years ago, environmental regulators discovered garbage burning deep inside the Chiquita Canyon Landfill in the Santa Clarita Valley.
Few imagined the calamity that would follow.
Somehow the landfill’s pollution control system introduced oxygen below,
causing decades-old waste to rapidly decompose,
generating intense heat and eventually widespread smoldering, federal and state environmental a…

Boiling Point: Toxic underground fires are spreading at California landfills
The Los Angeles Times finds that residents near Chiquita Canyon are not the only ones suffering from heinous conditions near landfills.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheBethDittoShow
Ladyhawke:
🎵 Paris Is Burning
#Ladyhawke
https://ix03y3.bandcamp.com/track/paris-is-burning-ix-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/0fcWIzRDyYZXIbAF18VOXa

Walls of flames destroyed dozens of homes and other structures in the Indian Trail neighborhood and more areas of Spokane on Saturday amid one of the worst natural disasters in the city’s history.
Home after home caught fire and exploded into flames along with trees.
Loud explosions could be heard through the smoke as the wildfire that started earlier in the afternoon on the West Plains continued to destroy much of what was in its path.
Winds gusting 35 to 45 mph drove the …

'Never seen it this bad': Thousands evacuated in north Spokane as wildfire crosses river into city
A wildfire driven by high winds jumped the Spokane River Saturday afternoon, burning homes and quickly moving into the Indian Trail Neighborhood.

Nationwide, wine sales are at their lowest level in more than two decades
People drink less amid growing public health warnings that alcohol is unhealthy.
Sales have also suffered as many younger drinkers have found traditional wines difficult to understand, and preferred canned cocktails, seltzers and nonalcoholic beers and spirits.

Sales Are So Low, California Wineries Are Burning Their Vineyards
The rise and fall of pinot noir symbolizes the larger struggles of the wine industry as younger generations turn to other beverages.

This next part could give you nightmares:
“The mouthparts of biting midges consist of a fleshy sheath inside of which are four, minute cutting blades that lacerate the skin, inflicting sharp, burning pain.
Observant victims may notice tiny red ‘spots’ that are biting midges filling with blood.”
https://www.mosquitomagnet.com/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Linda Lindas:
🎵 Burning Out
#TheLindaLindas
https://thelindalindas.bandcamp.com/track/burning-out
https://open.spotify.com/track/3075JUjtjJ2mGuy7eoOea2