Worst wine harvest in 62 years blamed on ‘extreme’ weather and climate change

Global #wine production hit a historic low in 2023. The International Organisation of Vine and Wine says the drink hit its lowest level since 1962.

#drought 🍇 🍷

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/04/26/worst-wine-harvest-in-62-years-blamed-on-extreme-weather-and-climate-change

A view of dried-up rivers in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, December 2, 2013. The Pilbara region, which is the size of Spain, has the world's largest known deposits of iron ore and supplies nearly 45 percent of global trade in the mineral. REUTERS/David Gray

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A farmer stands in the middle of a dried-up dam in a drought-effected paddock on his property located west of the town of Gunnedah in New South Wales, Australia, June 3, 2018. REUTERS/David Gray

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Utility-related fires are wreaking havoc across the United States. Since 2017, fires related to electricity transmission have burned at least 3 million acres.

New today: A closer look at the #Texas Panhandle fire, and why it's a grim preview of our near future. From our friends at Sierra Club magazine ... https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-panhandle-fire-climate-environment/

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The Epic Texas Panhandle Fire Is Just a Preview

Texas officials go to bat for oil and gas while the climate-fueled Smokehouse Creek Fire still rages.

^{Christopher Collins (The Texas Observer)}

#ClimateCrisis #ForestFires

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It is high time to think out of the box and to adopt new practices to prevent forest fires.

Apart from exchanging existing #tree species with more heat and #drought resistent types, as some countries like #Germany are doing, active forest management with preventive #fires to destroy the accumulated undergrowth that tends to become a tinder box is of the essence. Many countries could learn a lot from indigenous...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/21/wildfire-prescribed-burns-california-native-americans

'Fire is medicine': the tribes burning California forests to save them

For millennia, native people have used small burns to protect the land. The US government outlawed the process for a century before recognizing its value

^{Susie Cagle (The Guardian)}