John Vaillant

3 weeks ago | therecord.com | John Vaillant

“They’re baaack …”Even if we haven’t seen “Poltergeist II,” most of us know those iconic lines. Wildfires, it could be said, are Canada’s poltergeists, only scarier and deadlier. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been watching the latest sequel as colossal boreal fires kill citizens (two so far), trigger evacuations (in the tens of thousands now), and send toxic smoke plumes across the Atlantic and deep into the United States.

2 months ago | johnmenadue.com | Chris Hedges |John Vaillant

Wildfires in California replicate the massive fire storms in the boreal forest in Canada and Siberia, the lungs of the earth. Our addiction to fossil fuel has ignited an age of fire. The apocalyptic wildfires that have erupted in theborealforest inSiberia, the Russian Far East and Canada, climate scientistsrepeatedlywarned, would inevitably move southwards as rising global temperatures created hotter, more fire-prone landscapes. Now they have.

Jan 31, 2025 | chrishedges.substack.com | Chris Hedges |John Vaillant

This article is read by Eunice Wong, a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators. Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actorText originally published Jan.

Jan 20, 2025 | resumenlatinoamericano.org | John Vaillant

Por Chris Hedges. Rebelión, Resumen Latinoamericano, 20 de Enero de 2025. Los científicos del clima advirtieron repetidamente que los incendios apocalípticos que han estallado en el bosque boreal de Siberia, el Lejano Oriente ruso y Canadá se desplazarían inevitablemente hacia el sur a medida que las temperaturas globales en aumento crearan paisajes más cálidos y propensos a los incendios. Ahora lo han hecho.

Jan 13, 2025 | lacasademitia.es | John Vaillant

Los científicos del clima advirtieron repetidamente que los incendios forestales apocalípticos que han estallado en los bosques boreales de Siberia , el Lejano Oriente ruso y Canadá se desplazarían inevitablemente hacia el sur a medida que las temperaturas globales en aumento crearan paisajes más cálidos y propensos a los incendios. Y así ha sido.