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  1. European wildfire damage could rise 192% by end of century

    A new study led by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) has warned that climate change…
    #Europe #EU #climatechange #ClimateModelling #WildfireManagement #WildfirePrevention
    europesays.com/europe/120600/

  2. How ESA leverages space-enabled solutions to address European wildfires

    Liz Barrow, Business Applications and Partnerships Officer at the European Space Agency (ESA), discusses how space technology and…
    #Europe #EU #ClimateModelling #Earthobservation #European #spaceinfrastructure #SpaceTechnology #WildfireManagement #WildfirePrevention
    europesays.com/europe/119969/

  3. EU strengthens wildfire response as fires spread across Europe

    The European Union has mobilised additional firefighting support for Belgium and Spain as severe wildfires continue to overwhelm…
    #Europe #EU #climatechange #ClimateModelling #EuropeanUnion #WildfireManagement #WildfirePrevention
    europesays.com/europe/118333/

  4. How #Australia combines modern tech and #IndigenousKnowledge to fight #wildfires

    by Lana Lam, 1 August 2026

    Excerpt: "Yebra has spearheaded an innovative project, bringing together millennia-old knowledge in Australia's #Indigenous communities with cutting-edge #SatelliteImagery to help detect where fires are most likely to break out.

    The satellite images pick up the 'fuel moisture content' in the landscape, which signals where there might be a large amount of fuel, such as dry leaves, grass, shrubs and bark. But such data provides just one part of a bigger picture.

    "That's where the likes of Adrian Webster come in.

    "Growing up on the south coast of New South Wales (NSW), Webster learnt how to read the environment or 'country' - the term Indigenous Australians use for their ancestral homeland – from his elders.

    "Using Indigenous ecological knowledge – a plant's colour and scent, for example, or the shade cover of trees - he can verify information in the satellite images from Yebra's team.

    " 'She had all this amazing data, but there was no translation to what it meant on the ground, so it was kind of useless,' he explains.

    " 'But through an Indigenous perspective, it was not useless. It was a map that could guide you through the country and, if you understood it, take you directly into a place that is ready to burn.'

    "For Webster, assessing the land involves him 'literally digging and going underground,' he says.

    " 'We're looking at the subsurface level and then everything from that up beyond the canopy.'

    "Yebra said there was a 'remarkable agreement' between Webster's local knowledge and the satellite data, demonstrating the combined value of Indigenous expertise and Western science."

    Read more:
    bbc.com/news/articles/czdmvr98

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/CtF6c

    #SolarPunkSunday #ClimateChange #WildfirePrevention #Australia #IndigenousKnowledge #Science #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge

  5. How #Australia combines modern tech and #IndigenousKnowledge to fight #wildfires

    by Lana Lam, 1 August 2026

    Excerpt: "Yebra has spearheaded an innovative project, bringing together millennia-old knowledge in Australia's #Indigenous communities with cutting-edge #SatelliteImagery to help detect where fires are most likely to break out.

    The satellite images pick up the 'fuel moisture content' in the landscape, which signals where there might be a large amount of fuel, such as dry leaves, grass, shrubs and bark. But such data provides just one part of a bigger picture.

    "That's where the likes of Adrian Webster come in.

    "Growing up on the south coast of New South Wales (NSW), Webster learnt how to read the environment or 'country' - the term Indigenous Australians use for their ancestral homeland – from his elders.

    "Using Indigenous ecological knowledge – a plant's colour and scent, for example, or the shade cover of trees - he can verify information in the satellite images from Yebra's team.

    " 'She had all this amazing data, but there was no translation to what it meant on the ground, so it was kind of useless,' he explains.

    " 'But through an Indigenous perspective, it was not useless. It was a map that could guide you through the country and, if you understood it, take you directly into a place that is ready to burn.'

    "For Webster, assessing the land involves him 'literally digging and going underground,' he says.

    " 'We're looking at the subsurface level and then everything from that up beyond the canopy.'

    "Yebra said there was a 'remarkable agreement' between Webster's local knowledge and the satellite data, demonstrating the combined value of Indigenous expertise and Western science."

    Read more:
    bbc.com/news/articles/czdmvr98

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/CtF6c

    #SolarPunkSunday #ClimateChange #WildfirePrevention #Australia #IndigenousKnowledge #Science #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge

  6. How #Australia combines modern tech and #IndigenousKnowledge to fight #wildfires

    by Lana Lam, 1 August 2026

    Excerpt: "Yebra has spearheaded an innovative project, bringing together millennia-old knowledge in Australia's #Indigenous communities with cutting-edge #SatelliteImagery to help detect where fires are most likely to break out.

    The satellite images pick up the 'fuel moisture content' in the landscape, which signals where there might be a large amount of fuel, such as dry leaves, grass, shrubs and bark. But such data provides just one part of a bigger picture.

    "That's where the likes of Adrian Webster come in.

    "Growing up on the south coast of New South Wales (NSW), Webster learnt how to read the environment or 'country' - the term Indigenous Australians use for their ancestral homeland – from his elders.

    "Using Indigenous ecological knowledge – a plant's colour and scent, for example, or the shade cover of trees - he can verify information in the satellite images from Yebra's team.

    " 'She had all this amazing data, but there was no translation to what it meant on the ground, so it was kind of useless,' he explains.

    " 'But through an Indigenous perspective, it was not useless. It was a map that could guide you through the country and, if you understood it, take you directly into a place that is ready to burn.'

    "For Webster, assessing the land involves him 'literally digging and going underground,' he says.

    " 'We're looking at the subsurface level and then everything from that up beyond the canopy.'

    "Yebra said there was a 'remarkable agreement' between Webster's local knowledge and the satellite data, demonstrating the combined value of Indigenous expertise and Western science."

    Read more:
    bbc.com/news/articles/czdmvr98

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/CtF6c

    #SolarPunkSunday #ClimateChange #WildfirePrevention #Australia #IndigenousKnowledge #Science #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge

  7. How #Australia combines modern tech and #IndigenousKnowledge to fight #wildfires

    by Lana Lam, 1 August 2026

    Excerpt: "Yebra has spearheaded an innovative project, bringing together millennia-old knowledge in Australia's #Indigenous communities with cutting-edge #SatelliteImagery to help detect where fires are most likely to break out.

    The satellite images pick up the 'fuel moisture content' in the landscape, which signals where there might be a large amount of fuel, such as dry leaves, grass, shrubs and bark. But such data provides just one part of a bigger picture.

    "That's where the likes of Adrian Webster come in.

    "Growing up on the south coast of New South Wales (NSW), Webster learnt how to read the environment or 'country' - the term Indigenous Australians use for their ancestral homeland – from his elders.

    "Using Indigenous ecological knowledge – a plant's colour and scent, for example, or the shade cover of trees - he can verify information in the satellite images from Yebra's team.

    " 'She had all this amazing data, but there was no translation to what it meant on the ground, so it was kind of useless,' he explains.

    " 'But through an Indigenous perspective, it was not useless. It was a map that could guide you through the country and, if you understood it, take you directly into a place that is ready to burn.'

    "For Webster, assessing the land involves him 'literally digging and going underground,' he says.

    " 'We're looking at the subsurface level and then everything from that up beyond the canopy.'

    "Yebra said there was a 'remarkable agreement' between Webster's local knowledge and the satellite data, demonstrating the combined value of Indigenous expertise and Western science."

    Read more:
    bbc.com/news/articles/czdmvr98

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/CtF6c

    #SolarPunkSunday #ClimateChange #WildfirePrevention #Australia #IndigenousKnowledge #Science #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge

  8. How #Australia combines modern tech and #IndigenousKnowledge to fight #wildfires

    by Lana Lam, 1 August 2026

    Excerpt: "Yebra has spearheaded an innovative project, bringing together millennia-old knowledge in Australia's #Indigenous communities with cutting-edge #SatelliteImagery to help detect where fires are most likely to break out.

    The satellite images pick up the 'fuel moisture content' in the landscape, which signals where there might be a large amount of fuel, such as dry leaves, grass, shrubs and bark. But such data provides just one part of a bigger picture.

    "That's where the likes of Adrian Webster come in.

    "Growing up on the south coast of New South Wales (NSW), Webster learnt how to read the environment or 'country' - the term Indigenous Australians use for their ancestral homeland – from his elders.

    "Using Indigenous ecological knowledge – a plant's colour and scent, for example, or the shade cover of trees - he can verify information in the satellite images from Yebra's team.

    " 'She had all this amazing data, but there was no translation to what it meant on the ground, so it was kind of useless,' he explains.

    " 'But through an Indigenous perspective, it was not useless. It was a map that could guide you through the country and, if you understood it, take you directly into a place that is ready to burn.'

    "For Webster, assessing the land involves him 'literally digging and going underground,' he says.

    " 'We're looking at the subsurface level and then everything from that up beyond the canopy.'

    "Yebra said there was a 'remarkable agreement' between Webster's local knowledge and the satellite data, demonstrating the combined value of Indigenous expertise and Western science."

    Read more:
    bbc.com/news/articles/czdmvr98

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/CtF6c

    #SolarPunkSunday #ClimateChange #WildfirePrevention #Australia #IndigenousKnowledge #Science #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge

  9. DATE: August 14, 2026 at 08:21AM
    SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG

    TITLE: How Europe Can Prevent a Repeat of This Year's Devastating Wildfires

    URL: socialpsychology.org/client/re

    Source: Science

    A wave of wildfires across Southern Europe has so far this year burned more than half a million hectares—an area equivalent to Grand Canyon National Park—far exceeding the area burned by August 2025, the worst year on record. Indeed, since the 1980s, the number of "fire weather" days—scorching, dry, breezy days—has more than doubled across much of the region, exacerbated by climate change. What, then, can be done to avoid more years like 2026?

    URL: socialpsychology.org/client/re

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    #psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #EuropeWildfires #FireWeather #ClimateChange #WildfirePrevention #SouthernEurope #BurnArea #ForestFireSafety #ClimateAdaptation #FireSeason #EnvironmentalPolicy

  10. DATE: August 14, 2026 at 08:21AM
    SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG

    TITLE: How Europe Can Prevent a Repeat of This Year's Devastating Wildfires

    URL: socialpsychology.org/client/re

    Source: Science

    A wave of wildfires across Southern Europe has so far this year burned more than half a million hectares—an area equivalent to Grand Canyon National Park—far exceeding the area burned by August 2025, the worst year on record. Indeed, since the 1980s, the number of "fire weather" days—scorching, dry, breezy days—has more than doubled across much of the region, exacerbated by climate change. What, then, can be done to avoid more years like 2026?

    URL: socialpsychology.org/client/re

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    #psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #EuropeWildfires #FireWeather #ClimateChange #WildfirePrevention #SouthernEurope #BurnArea #ForestFireSafety #ClimateAdaptation #FireSeason #EnvironmentalPolicy

  11. DATE: August 14, 2026 at 08:21AM
    SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG

    TITLE: How Europe Can Prevent a Repeat of This Year's Devastating Wildfires

    URL: socialpsychology.org/client/re

    Source: Science

    A wave of wildfires across Southern Europe has so far this year burned more than half a million hectares—an area equivalent to Grand Canyon National Park—far exceeding the area burned by August 2025, the worst year on record. Indeed, since the 1980s, the number of "fire weather" days—scorching, dry, breezy days—has more than doubled across much of the region, exacerbated by climate change. What, then, can be done to avoid more years like 2026?

    URL: socialpsychology.org/client/re

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    Unofficial Psychology Today Xitter to toot feed at Psych Today Unofficial Bot @PTUnofficialBot

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    #psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #EuropeWildfires #FireWeather #ClimateChange #WildfirePrevention #SouthernEurope #BurnArea #ForestFireSafety #ClimateAdaptation #FireSeason #EnvironmentalPolicy

  12. @euronews.com
    Thanks to satellites and #AI, 🇬🇷 Greece is leading the world in #WildfirePrevention. In May, bracing for an exceptionally difficult wildfire season, Greece became the first country in the world to deploy a satellite constellation dedicated specifically to #firefighting.

    Greece using satellites and AI...

  13. @euronews.com
    Thanks to satellites and #AI, 🇬🇷 Greece is leading the world in #WildfirePrevention. In May, bracing for an exceptionally difficult wildfire season, Greece became the first country in the world to deploy a satellite constellation dedicated specifically to #firefighting.

    Greece using satellites and AI...

  14. Cal Fire has recognized the Ventura County Fire Protection District as a fire risk reduction community, effective now through July 2028. This is important because (a) VCFPD is the agency responsible for fire prevention and response in Thousand Oaks and (b) recognition brings priority consideration for Cal Fire’s Wildfire Prevention Grants and helps inform wildfire risk ratings.

    bof.fire.ca.gov/projects-and-p

    #wildfires #WildfirePrevention #calfire #venturacounty #vcfd #conejovalley #ThousandOaks

  15. Cal Fire has recognized the Ventura County Fire Protection District as a fire risk reduction community, effective now through July 2028. This is important because (a) VCFPD is the agency responsible for fire prevention and response in Thousand Oaks and (b) recognition brings priority consideration for Cal Fire’s Wildfire Prevention Grants and helps inform wildfire risk ratings.

    bof.fire.ca.gov/projects-and-p

    #wildfires #WildfirePrevention #calfire #venturacounty #vcfd #conejovalley #ThousandOaks

  16. Cal Fire has recognized the Ventura County Fire Protection District as a fire risk reduction community, effective now through July 2028. This is important because (a) VCFPD is the agency responsible for fire prevention and response in Thousand Oaks and (b) recognition brings priority consideration for Cal Fire’s Wildfire Prevention Grants and helps inform wildfire risk ratings.

    bof.fire.ca.gov/projects-and-p

    #wildfires #WildfirePrevention #calfire #venturacounty #vcfd #conejovalley #ThousandOaks

  17. Cal Fire has recognized the Ventura County Fire Protection District as a fire risk reduction community, effective now through July 2028. This is important because (a) VCFPD is the agency responsible for fire prevention and response in Thousand Oaks and (b) recognition brings priority consideration for Cal Fire’s Wildfire Prevention Grants and helps inform wildfire risk ratings.

    bof.fire.ca.gov/projects-and-p

    #wildfires #WildfirePrevention #calfire #venturacounty #vcfd #conejovalley #ThousandOaks

  18. Cal Fire has recognized the Ventura County Fire Protection District as a fire risk reduction community, effective now through July 2028. This is important because (a) VCFPD is the agency responsible for fire prevention and response in Thousand Oaks and (b) recognition brings priority consideration for Cal Fire’s Wildfire Prevention Grants and helps inform wildfire risk ratings.

    bof.fire.ca.gov/projects-and-p

    #wildfires #WildfirePrevention #calfire #venturacounty #vcfd #conejovalley #ThousandOaks

  19. POSCO Chairman Chang Leads Volunteer Drive to Build “Safe Village”

    Jang In-hwa (right), chairman of POSCO Group, installs handrails at a village pavilion to prevent falls and other…
    #EuropeSays #Korea #KR #POSCO #ChangIn-hwa #corporatesocialresponsibility #GlobalVolunteerWeek #Pohang #POSCO1%SharingFoundation #POSCOGroup #safevillage #wildfireprevention
    europesays.com/korea/44021/

  20. Well, next week is going to be a blur. Helping support a damage assessment, speaking on a wildfire panel at a utility conference, and making a trip to see some family after a crisis.

    Glad that we have some mild weather compared to what could hit the East, but I would do unmentionable things to get some snow out here.

    #musings #DisasterRecovery #Wildfire #WildfirePrevention

  21. Well, next week is going to be a blur. Helping support a damage assessment, speaking on a wildfire panel at a utility conference, and making a trip to see some family after a crisis.

    Glad that we have some mild weather compared to what could hit the East, but I would do unmentionable things to get some snow out here.

    #musings #DisasterRecovery #Wildfire #WildfirePrevention

  22. Well, next week is going to be a blur. Helping support a damage assessment, speaking on a wildfire panel at a utility conference, and making a trip to see some family after a crisis.

    Glad that we have some mild weather compared to what could hit the East, but I would do unmentionable things to get some snow out here.

    #musings #DisasterRecovery #Wildfire #WildfirePrevention

  23. Well, next week is going to be a blur. Helping support a damage assessment, speaking on a wildfire panel at a utility conference, and making a trip to see some family after a crisis.

    Glad that we have some mild weather compared to what could hit the East, but I would do unmentionable things to get some snow out here.

    #musings #DisasterRecovery #Wildfire #WildfirePrevention

  24. Well, next week is going to be a blur. Helping support a damage assessment, speaking on a wildfire panel at a utility conference, and making a trip to see some family after a crisis.

    Glad that we have some mild weather compared to what could hit the East, but I would do unmentionable things to get some snow out here.

    #musings #DisasterRecovery #Wildfire #WildfirePrevention

  25. 🔥🔥 Fire danger is HIGH in Southcentral Alaska! Winds + dry conditions = risky weekend. Avoid outdoor fires and be alert!
    📌 Details & contacts here: tinyurl.com/2s4jczar
    #AlaskaFireSafety #AKDFFP #WildfirePrevention #HighFireDanger #Fire #Alaska #AlaskaHeadlineLiving #news #AlaskaNews #Weather 🌲⚠️

  26. 🔥🔥 Fire danger is HIGH in Southcentral Alaska! Winds + dry conditions = risky weekend. Avoid outdoor fires and be alert!
    📌 Details & contacts here: tinyurl.com/2s4jczar
    #AlaskaFireSafety #AKDFFP #WildfirePrevention #HighFireDanger #Fire #Alaska #AlaskaHeadlineLiving #news #AlaskaNews #Weather 🌲⚠️

  27. 🔥🔥 Fire danger is HIGH in Southcentral Alaska! Winds + dry conditions = risky weekend. Avoid outdoor fires and be alert!
    📌 Details & contacts here: tinyurl.com/2s4jczar
    #AlaskaFireSafety #AKDFFP #WildfirePrevention #HighFireDanger #Fire #Alaska #AlaskaHeadlineLiving #news #AlaskaNews #Weather 🌲⚠️

  28. 🔥🔥 Fire danger is HIGH in Southcentral Alaska! Winds + dry conditions = risky weekend. Avoid outdoor fires and be alert!
    📌 Details & contacts here: tinyurl.com/2s4jczar
    #AlaskaFireSafety #AKDFFP #WildfirePrevention #HighFireDanger #Fire #Alaska #AlaskaHeadlineLiving #news #AlaskaNews #Weather 🌲⚠️