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‘A Taste of What’s to Come’: Wildfire Near Los Angeles Forces 1,200 to Evacuate

On Saturday afternoon, the Post Fire began in a mountainous region of California, approximately 45 miles northwest of Los Angeles, according to authorities. By Sunday, it had burned more than 14,000 acres of brush and grasslands, forcing about 1,200 people to evacuate the…

1 Million-Acre Wildfire Moves Across Texas Panhandle, Destroying Homes, Ranches and Grasslands

The landscape scorched, houses gone. Texas’ Smokehouse Creek fire has spread to more than one million acres, the largest in the state’s history. It is bigger than the 2006 East Amarillo Complex fire and the second-largest in United States history.…

Wildfire in Northern of Quebec and massive destruction of wildlife

Last Wednesday as I landed in Montreal back from the inauguration of the Casa Giorgi Park of Study and Reflection in Italy. I learned that the Northern Quebec where I grew up was on fire and that several members of…

Reflections on progress at the end of UN nuclear talks in Geneva

Our friends at wildfire>_, always a source of frank opinions and witty commentary, besides their brutal analysis of hypocritical statements, made this final statement to the Open Ended Working Group May session.  We reproduce it here for the benefit of…

G7 walks backwards in Hiroshima

From Wildfire>_ News. Earlier this week, foreign ministers of the G7 met in Hiroshima. The highly symbolic setting, coupled with signals from Japan’s foreign minister Fumio Kishida (who is from Hiroshima) that Japan would push for a renewed commitment on…

Nuclear disarmament: Nations urged to not repeat the mistakes of the last 40 years

Today, in Geneva, Switzerland, talks start to take forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations for the achievement and maintenance of a world without nuclear weapons.  Despite the absence of the permanent 5 members of the UN Security Council – those countries…