Chinese authorities have warned Tibetans not to share photos or videos of the fire on social media platforms or with contacts abroad, or face arrest, said the first source from inside Tibet.
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One year on from the historic wildfires that decimated the woodlands of Gironde in south-western France, the bark beetle is adding insult to injury. Bark beetle larvae usually feed off the sap of dead trees, but after the fires left so many trees weakened, it’s been a field day for the insect, which is now proliferating at an alarming rate. It’s now a race against time to save what can be saved – to evacuate dead or infected trees from the area, in the hope of protecting their neighbors.
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Translation by Bing:
More than 61 agroforestry fires broke out in the last 24 hours in the Greek territory, according to data from the Fire Brigade.
According to the Fire Brigade, 54 of them were treated immediately, at their initial stage, while the fire brigade is facing seven more.
The local investigation offices, as well as Units of the Arson Crimes Directorate (D.A.E.E.) are investigating the causes of the fires.
Finally, the Fire Brigade calls on all citizens to be particularly careful and in case of fire, for their own safety, to strictly follow the instructions of the competent authorities.
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His 10-member elite fire crew from the 1st Wildfire Special Operation Unit bristles with tools needed to hold back fires: chainsaws, specialised rakes, weather gauges, computer tablets and earth-scorching drip torches to burn wildfire barriers into the hillside.
This year, Greece is doubling the number of firefighters in specialised units to some 1,300, and adopting tactics from the United States to try and outflank fires with airborne units scrambled to build breaks in the predicted path of the flames.
LOGAS? Kicks? Both? Neither? IDK. 
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Over 250,000 people have been evacuated from wildfires in Bordeaux, France, and near Barcelona in Spain. So far, over 172,000 acres have burned, the most acres burned in a single year since their records began in 2006.
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New essay on The Lookout about fires in France. One thing I learned in researching this is that the 2 million acre Landes Forest, where the fires are burning, usually has a robust marine layer in the summer. The extreme heat wave/heat dome likely suppressed this. Maybe a cautionary tale for West Coast forests that are often kept out of play by the marine layer, but could get more summer heat with radically-elevated ocean temeratures?
Fires near Bordeaux are being framed as a pure “climate change story,” but the real driver is three centuries of land-use choices that drained coastal peat bogs to create a 2 million-acre block of tightly packed maritime pine. These trees are some of the most resinous trees in the world - they were planted to create a turpentine industry.
Climate change widens the window for bad fire days, but once a spark hits this industrial fuel bed, the intensity and spread we’re seeing are mostly about fuels and design. If we want different outcomes, we have to talk about plantations, peat, and perverse incentives in the forest carbon markets that encourage the establishment of man-made forests that are the opposite of climate-resilient.
Read our essay on the fires in France, or watch our Lookout Livestream, here:
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Thanks for an update and the education on the France fires. Had no idea about plantations being planted on a drained swamp land on a massive scale. Just like South America in Chile with there plantations.
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Don’t let “hey you know what would look cool” could your judgement.
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