Greece. Another carbon sink one bites the dust. After Germany, Finland, and ...? Yet EU policy is still to use national carbon sinks to balance insufficient or absent sectoral CO2 reduction. Which is allowed practice according to the UNFCCC as well. Stupid, isn't it. It's called the pyrocene for a reason.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/19/survived-wildfires-drought-killing-greece-fir-forests-aoe

#Forest #BarkBeetle #WildFire #CarbonSink #Greece #Pyrocene #Anthropocene #EconObscene

They survived wildfires. But something else is killing Greece’s iconic fir forests

In the Peloponnese mountains, the usually hardy trees are turning brown even where fires haven’t reached. Experts are raising the alarm on a complex crisis

The Guardian

Wow—no wonder Canada is on fire. Lytton, B.C. just hit 41.3 °C, Canada’s hottest temp of 2025, as B.C. shatters daily heat records. Over 80 wildfires are raging. This is the climate crisis playing out in real time.

#HeatRecord #BCWildfires #Pyrocene #heat #climatechange

‘Pray for rain’: wildfires in Canada are now burning where they never used to

#Canada’s response to the extreme weather threat is being upended as the traditional epicentre of the blazes shifts as the #climate warms

“Conditions are really dry, there’s no rain in sight, the risk is extremely high in #NovaScotia,” the province’s premier, Tim Houston, told reporters. “I’m happy to make sure that we’re doing everything we can to protect people, to protect property and try to just get through this #FireSeason and really just pray for rain.”

Fires have even erupted in #Ontario’s #Kawartha Lakes region, a collection of rural communities less than 100 miles (160km) north of #Toronto that are a popular summer destination for residents of Canada’s largest city.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/17/new-canada-wildfires-locations

#ClimateCrisis
#Pyrocene
#ExtremeWeather
#Wildfires

‘Pray for rain’: wildfires in Canada are now burning where they never used to

Canada’s response to the extreme weather threat is being upended as the traditional epicentre of the blazes shifts as the climate warms

The Guardian

"#Wildfires continue to expand in northwestern #Syria after burning 10,000 hectares of forest...The countryside of Latakia has seen intense wildfires due to# hightemperatures, exacerbated by strong winds in the region." #pyrocene
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/wildfires-expand-in-syria-s-latakia-as-10-000-hectares-of-forests-burned/3623540

https://bsky.app/profile/wildwoods.bsky.social/post/3ltczuxfmkk2k

Wildfires expand in Syria’s Latakia as 10,000 hectares of forests burned

8 civil defense members injured during firefighting operations, authorities say - Anadolu Ajansı

With more than 7.8 million acres (3.15 million hectares) burned, according to Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre data, the season has already raced past the annual average, even when including the past two major fire seasons.
#climatechange #climateemergency #ForestFires #climatecrisis #pyrocene #Canada #Manitoba
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/06/10/canada-wildfires-land-burned-maps-smoke/
Canada has already surpassed a year’s worth of charred land from wildfires

Fires are devouring land at a pace unseen in any year other than the historic 2023 season.

The Washington Post

#Wildfire #smoke in #Canada

Animation, 1.7.2025 to 11.7.2025

Data
Wind @ 850hPa + Organic Matter Aerosol Optical Thickness (550 nm)

Source
CAMS / Copernicus / European Commission + ECMWF

https://earth.nullschool.net/#2025/06/10/1800Z/particulates/isobaric/850hPa/anim=off/overlay=organic_matter_aot/equirectangular=-14.06,-0.90,306

#ClimateCrisis
#RemoteSensing
#ClimateScience
#Pyrocene