by Working on Fire | Mar 31, 2018 | Working on Fire
Climate change will be the fastest-growing cause of species loss in the Americas by midcentury, according to a new set of reports from the leading global organization on ecosystems and biodiversity. Climate change, alongside factors like land degradation and habitat...
by Working on Fire | Oct 25, 2017 | Working on Fire
The increase in forest fires, seen this summer from North America to the Mediterranean to Siberia, is directly linked to climate change, scientists say. And as the world continues to warm, there will be greater risk for fires on nearly every continent. On a single...
by Working on Fire | Aug 11, 2017 | Working on Fire
This is going to sound weird, but there’s a wildfire right now in west Greenland. You know, that huge island of mostly ice? Part of it is on fire. There’s been nothing even close to this since reliable satellite-based fire detection records began in Greenland in 2000....
by Working on Fire | Jul 20, 2017 | Working on Fire
More frequent, intense and longer burning wildfires are ravaging the most diverse regions of our planet, most of them aggravated by historically high temperatures and drier conditions. In the past few months alone.” In June, wildfires raced across the Garden Route...
by Working on Fire | Apr 4, 2017 | Kishugu
At a recent Kishugu Training passing out parade, held at the academy in Nelspruit, 87 new Working on Fire (WOF) firefighters graduated from the Basic Skills Programme. These young men and woman came from all over the Western Cape and Mpumalanga, not knowing what to...
