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30 Aug, 23 tweets, 19 min read
🌎🔥 Early this month the @IPCC_CH report stated: "Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying"

From Siberia to the Amazon, see where fires raged on Earth August 2021 🧵⬇️
#ClimateEmergency #ExtremeWeather #heatwave
📹 #Caldorfire via @SPACEdotcom
🇬🇷 Aug 3 - Greece

100+ forest fires in 24hrs, thousands evacuated.
– "We are no longer talking about climate change but about a climate threat"

[This is the fire thread: the Earth on fire August 2021 🧵⬇️]
#ClimateEmergency #ExtremeWeather #heatwave

cnn.com/2021/08/09/eur…
🇺🇸 Aug 4 - US #RiverFire

[This is the fire thread: the Earth on fire August 2021 🧵⬇️]
#ClimateEmergency #ExtremeWeather #heatwave
capradio.org/articles/2021/…
🇺🇸 Aug 5 - Greenville CA - USA

[This is the fire thread: the Earth on fire August 2021 🧵⬇️]
#ClimateEmergency #ExtremeWeather #heatwave
apnews.com/article/fires-…
🇧🇷 Aug 8 - Brazil - Acre

[This is the fire thread: the Earth on fire August 2021 🧵⬇️]
#ClimateEmergency #ExtremeWeather #heatwave
news.mongabay.com/2021/08/in-bra…
🇹🇷 Aug 9 - Turkey

[This is the fire thread: the Earth on fire August 2021 🧵⬇️]
#ClimateEmergency #ExtremeWeather #heatwave
reuters.com/world/middle-e…
🇺🇸 Aug 10 - US #DixieFire (keeps pushing through...)

[This is the fire thread: the Earth on fire August 2021 🧵⬇️]
#ClimateEmergency #ExtremeWeather #heatwave
reuters.com/business/envir…
🇮🇹 Aug 11 - Italy

reuters.com/world/europe/w…
🇧🇴 Aug 9 - Bolivia

2 thousand hectares in 2 days

[This is the fire thread: the Earth on fire August 2021 🧵⬇️]
#ClimateEmergency #ExtremeWeather #heatwave
rfi.fr/en/forest-fire…
🇩🇿 Aug 11 - Algeria

At least 65 people killed by fires in the Kabylie region

[This is the fire thread: the Earth on fire August 2021 🧵⬇️]
#ClimateEmergency #ExtremeWeather #heatwave
reuters.com/world/africa/a…
🇷🇺 Aug 11 - Russia

Largest fire on Earth 🔥

[This is the fire thread: the Earth on fire August 2021 🧵⬇️]
#ClimateEmergency #ExtremeWeather #heatwave
washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/…
Aug 13 - Pacific Islands

[This is the fire thread: the Earth on fire August 2021 🧵⬇️]
#ClimateEmergency #ExtremeWeather #heatwave
apnews.com/article/lifest…
🇺🇸 Aug 15 - US - Utah and Northern California

nytimes.com/2021/08/15/us/…
🇨🇦 Aug 16 - Canada

[This is the fire thread: the Earth on fire August 2021 🧵⬇️]
#ClimateEmergency #ExtremeWeather #heatwave
cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
🇫🇷 Aug 17 - France, Portugal and Spain

[This is the fire thread: the Earth on fire August 2021 🧵⬇️]
#ClimateEmergency #ExtremeWeather #heatwave
theguardian.com/world/2021/aug…
🇧🇷 Aug 18 - Brazil - 900 fires in Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Para, Rondonia states.

via @MattFiner
🌍 Aug 19 - Earth

This is how the globe was looking like in August 19, 2021
Via @chriscartw83 + @NSIDC

[This is the fire thread: the Earth on fire August 2021 🧵⬇️]
#ClimateEmergency #ExtremeWeather #heatwaves Image
🇧🇷 Aug 21 - Brazil - São Paulo

[This is the fire thread: the Earth on fire August 2021 🧵⬇️]
#ClimateEmergency #ExtremeWeather #heatwave
news.mongabay.com/2019/08/amazon…
🇺🇸 Aug 26 - US (the #CaldorFire continues...)

nytimes.com/2021/08/27/us/…
🇧🇷 Aug 27 - Brazil (the Amazon continues to burn...)

vox.com/down-to-earth/…
A number of the fires above mention keep burning. With that, it is good to remind:

[This is the fire thread: the Earth on fire August 2021 🧵⬇️]
#ClimateEmergency #ExtremeWeather #heatwaves #fire #ClimateAction
news.mongabay.com/2021/08/half-o…
We also want to share @AndrewDessler thread, debunking misinformation related to the historical frequency of heatwaves:

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31 Aug
🌎 The @IPCC_CH report stated earlier this month: Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying

From mammoth hurricanes to severe flash floods, see where went under water on Earth August 2021 🧵⬇️

#ExtremeWeather #ClimateAction
#HurricaneIda 📹 @NOAA / @SPACEdotcom
🇲🇽 Aug 7 Mexico - Coahuila and Durango

At least 42 homes were damaged or destroyed and 200 people directly affected

[See where went underwater on Earth Aug 2021🧵⬇️]
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19 Aug
(Almost) all you need to know on:
- The case in the Brazilian Supreme Court that will decide the fate of the land Ibirama-Laklãnõ
- The "Time Frame" thesis
- How struggle of the Xokleng-Laklãnõ for the right to exist can impact indigenous peoples throughout the country 🧵👇 Image
Before start, we recommend you register for the international event we supported together with various organizations, tonight 6 pm EST: with indigenous leaderships from Brazil and the USA @GuajajaraSonia @luizeloyterena @nickwestes and @leo_crippa +

So, The merits of the trial are based on the “thesis” of Marco Temporal (time limit), an idea led by the ruralist caucus that defends that indigenous peoples can only claim lands where they were settled on October 5, 1988, the date of the promulgation of Brazil's Constitution +
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21 Jul
Yesterday we looked at fires raging on Earth in July 2021.
Today take a look at extreme weather water related events

Here is where went under water on Earth July 2021 🧵⬇️

#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis 🌊
Image from @NASARain
🇯🇵 Japan:
9 dead, 21 missing

[This is the extreme weather water related events thread: See where went underwater in July 2021🧵⬇️]
#ClimateCrisis #ExtremeWeather
reuters.com/world/asia-pac…
🇷🇺 Russia / Crimea
164 people evacuated
floodlist.com/europe/crimea-…

[This is the extreme weather water related events thread: See where went underwater in July 2021🧵⬇️]
#ClimateCrisis #ExtremeWeather
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20 Jul
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It is fire season in Canada, Russia, Spain, Cyprus, various parts of the US, various parts of Brazil... From Siberia to the Amazon, this is the fire thread:

See where fires are raging in July 2021 🧵#ClimateCrisis #extremeweather ⬇️
euronews.com/green/2021/07/…

This is the fire thread: See where fires are raging in July 2021 🧵#ClimateCrisis #extremeweather #Siberia +
latimes.com/california/sto…

This is the fire thread: See where fires are raging in July 2021 🧵#ClimateCrisis #extremeweather #californiawildfires +
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20 Jul
Through a study originally published at @Nature, we've recently learned that parts of the Amazon Rainforest now emit more carbon than it absorbs.

South-North – East-West: See how the news spread throughout the world
⬇️🌏📡

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction
🇷🇺 Russia:
rg.ru/2021/07/14/les…
🇨🇳 China:
cnbeta.com/articles/tech/…
Read 16 tweets
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12 Jul
Think of pesticides being dropped from airplanes on children to force rural communities off their land.

This is not the description of a dystopian reality in which some evil agribusiness model rules. It is Brazil 2021.

Come with us to learn more: 🧵
#ClimateCrisis #Pesticides Image
In the first thread of this series, we explained a little of the context that made Brazil the biggest consumer of highly hazardous pesticides (HHP) in the World:

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Back to planes, the episode took place in May, in Araçá, Maranhão state. According to a complaint investigated by @reporterb the substances were dumped as a chemical weapon by a soy farmer who borders the community to expel families from their land. +

reporterbrasil.org.br/2021/05/agroto…
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