{"id":133053,"date":"2024-08-15T07:35:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T04:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/society-and-the-environment-are-suffering-as-climate-change-triples-chance-of-extreme-wildfires\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T07:35:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T04:35:39","slug":"society-and-the-environment-are-suffering-as-climate-change-triples-chance-of-extreme-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/society-and-the-environment-are-suffering-as-climate-change-triples-chance-of-extreme-wildfires\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Society and the environment are suffering\u2019 as climate change triples chance of extreme wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133053\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Around 3.9 million square kilometres of land were burnt globally during last year\u2019s fire season. Unprecedented wildfires in Canada and parts of Amazonia last year were made at least three times more likely by climate change, a new report has found. Wildfires in Greece, where blazes are currently burning around Athens, were made twice as likely by climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018State of Wildfires\u2019 report &#8211; published by the University of East Anglia (UEA), the UK Centre for Ecology &amp; Hydrology (UKCEH), the Met Office and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) &#8211; is the first annual stocktake of extreme fires. It looks at those that took place between March 2023 and February 2024, the causes behind them and if they could be predicted. Researchers also analysed how much climate change could increase the risk of similar events in future.<\/p>\n<p>Italy, Spain, Germany: The European countries where the most people died from heat last summer<br \/>\nHundreds of Greek firefighters contain Crete wildfire damage as high temperatures raise risk<br \/>\nIt found that if it had not been a quiet year in the African savannahs, the emissions from fires around the world would have been the greatest of any season on record since 2003. Around 3.9 million square kilometres of land were burnt globally during last year\u2019s fire season.<\/p>\n<p>Fires in Canada led to more than 230,000 evacuations in 2023 and eight firefighters lost their lives. South America also saw an unusually high number of fires during the 2023-24 season, especially in northern parts of the continent. Blazes in Brazil\u2019s Amazonas state, Bolivia, Peru and Venezuela led to the Amazon region experiencing some of the worst air quality on the planet. Wildfires in Chile, Hawaii and Greece also spread rapidly and burned intensely. In Chile, 131 people died, 100 in Hawaii and 19 in Greece.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year, we saw wildfires killing people, destroying properties and infrastructure, causing mass evacuations, threatening livelihoods, and damaging vital ecosystems,\u201d says lead author of this year\u2019s analysis, Dr Matthew Jones, a research fellow at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at UAE. \u201cWildfires are becoming more frequent and intense as the climate warms, and both society and the environment are suffering from the consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He adds that in Canada, a decade\u2019s worth of carbon emissions from fire were recorded in a single season &#8211; more than 2 billion tonnes of CO2. These emissions further raise atmospheric concentrations of CO2, exacerbating global warming.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/08\/14\/society-and-the-environment-are-suffering-as-climate-change-triples-chance-of-extreme-wild\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/08\/14\/society-and-the-environment-are-suffering-as-climate-change-triples-chance-of-extreme-wild\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/society-and-the-environment-are-suffering-as-climate-change-triples-chance-of-extreme-wildfires\/\">\u2018Society and the environment are suffering\u2019 as climate change triples chance of extreme wildfires<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[462,555],"class_list":["post-133053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-climate-change","tag-csr-news-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}