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went on strike<\/strong><\/a> on 14 July over parallel contentions, the strike stalled the entirety of Hollywood to an extent unprecedented since the last joint strike in 1960.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, there has been little movement on the studio side of the equation to end the strikes. Talks began between the WGA and the studios earlier this month but there have been no negotiation attempts from the studios with the actors guild yet.<\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood studios provided a basic proposal to the WGA this Tuesday. In it, writers are proposed to receive a 13% pay increase while AI content will not be considered \"literary material\". The streaming services have also provided confidential reports on viewing figures for their shows and films.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"We have come to the table with an offer that meets the priority concerns the writers have expressed. We are deeply committed to ending the strike and are hopeful that the WGA will work toward the same resolution,\" Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) President Carol Lombardini said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>However, the WGA's communications to its members indicate this deal isn't sufficient. \"We explained all the ways in which their counter\u2019s limitations and loopholes and omissions failed to sufficiently protect writers from the existential threats that caused us to strike in the first place,\" a WGA statement read. \"But this was not a meeting to make a deal. This was a meeting to get us to cave.\"\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The WGA has reiterated their intention to strike for their rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7774926,7577530\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//05//03//why-the-ai-demand-from-the-writers-guild-strikes-is-the-most-important-talking-point/">Why the AI demand from the Writers Guild strikes is the most important talking point<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//07//25//how-will-viewers-be-affected-by-the-continuing-hollywood-strikes/">How will viewers be affected by the continuing Hollywood strikes? <\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Until now, the prevailing intention of the Hollywood studios is seemingly to wait the strikes out. \u201cThe endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,\u201d one source from the\u00a0AMPTP told Deadline. According to inside sources, the studios have planned to wait out the strike to at least the end of October.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most highly publicised examples of the impact of the strikes on actors was Billy Porter\u2019s recent admission that he\u2019s had to sell his house. \u201cBecause we\u2019re on strike. And I don\u2019t know when we\u2019re gonna go back. The life of an artist, until you make fuck-you money \u2014 which I haven\u2019t made yet \u2014 is still check-to-check,\u201d Porter told the Evening Standard.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.678\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//84//16//58//808x550_cmsv2_3506bea5-5a43-5589-928e-66a43a1cdd77-7841658.jpg/" alt=\"Evan Agostini/Invision\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/84\/16\/58\/384x260_cmsv2_3506bea5-5a43-5589-928e-66a43a1cdd77-7841658.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/84\/16\/58\/640x434_cmsv2_3506bea5-5a43-5589-928e-66a43a1cdd77-7841658.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/84\/16\/58\/750x509_cmsv2_3506bea5-5a43-5589-928e-66a43a1cdd77-7841658.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/84\/16\/58\/828x561_cmsv2_3506bea5-5a43-5589-928e-66a43a1cdd77-7841658.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/84\/16\/58\/1080x732_cmsv2_3506bea5-5a43-5589-928e-66a43a1cdd77-7841658.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/84\/16\/58\/1200x814_cmsv2_3506bea5-5a43-5589-928e-66a43a1cdd77-7841658.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/84\/16\/58\/1920x1302_cmsv2_3506bea5-5a43-5589-928e-66a43a1cdd77-7841658.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Billy Porter arrives at the 73rd annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 9, 2019, in New York.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Evan Agostini/Invision<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The strikes remain popular in public opinion though. Recent polling figures from Data For Progress found that 67% of people support the strikes. On the specific issues of the strikes, 87% agree that actors and writers should receive the \u201cappropriate compensation when their work continues to earn money for corporations from reruns or streaming.\u201d While 74% agreed that Hollywood shouldn\u2019t be allowed to replace writers with AI tools.<\/p>\n<p>These figures go some way to mitigate any studio suggestion that the public has little time for the striking unions getting in the way of their entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>This is despite the majority of productions completely shutting down since the strike began. Many late night talk shows in the US have stalled as they rely on daily writers. Scripted shows like Netflix\u2019s \u2018Stranger Things\u2019, HBO\u2019s \u2018The Last of Us\u2019, and Showtime\u2019s \u2018Yellowjackets\u2019 have also all stopped production.<\/p>\n<p>We <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//07//25//how-will-viewers-be-affected-by-the-continuing-hollywood-strikes/">covered the impact<\/strong><\/a> of the strikes on upcoming films extensively. Many of the films currently halted include the highly-anticipated sequels to recent blockbusters, such as <em>Dune: Part Two<\/em>, <em>Fast X Part 2<\/em>, and <em>Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.689\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//84//16//58//808x557_cmsv2_7866c51b-2767-5fbf-9591-485aebd52431-7841658.jpg/" alt=\"Jordan Strauss/Invision\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/84\/16\/58\/384x265_cmsv2_7866c51b-2767-5fbf-9591-485aebd52431-7841658.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/84\/16\/58\/640x441_cmsv2_7866c51b-2767-5fbf-9591-485aebd52431-7841658.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/84\/16\/58\/750x517_cmsv2_7866c51b-2767-5fbf-9591-485aebd52431-7841658.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/84\/16\/58\/828x570_cmsv2_7866c51b-2767-5fbf-9591-485aebd52431-7841658.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/84\/16\/58\/1080x744_cmsv2_7866c51b-2767-5fbf-9591-485aebd52431-7841658.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/84\/16\/58\/1200x827_cmsv2_7866c51b-2767-5fbf-9591-485aebd52431-7841658.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/84\/16\/58\/1920x1323_cmsv2_7866c51b-2767-5fbf-9591-485aebd52431-7841658.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Kerry Washington speaks at the Day of Solidarity union rally on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Jordan Strauss/Invision<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The strikes have reportedly cost California\u2019s economy $3 billion since the WGA put down their pens in early May.<\/p>\n<p>At a large rally outside Disney Studios in Burbank, California, members of both unions made their displeasure at the situation known. \u201cThe audacity of these studios to say they can\u2019t afford to pay their workers after they make billions in profits is utterly ridiculous,\u201d Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Yvonne Wheeler told the crowd. She added a dig at Disney's CEO, who has become a target of strikers. \u201cBut despite their money, they can\u2019t buy this kind of solidarity. Tell Bob Iger that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe deserve to be able to be paid a fair wage. We deserve to have access to healthcare. We deserve to be free from machines pretending to be us,\" Washington said. \u201cThe dream of being working artist, the dream of making a living doing what we want to do, should not be impossible,\u201d \u2018Scandal\u2019 actor Kerry Washington also said at the rally.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1692785595,"publishedAt":1692794102,"updatedAt":1692794105,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2023\/08\/23\/wga-rejects-first-offer-made-by-the-hollywood-studios","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/84\/16\/58\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_3f052cdb-f061-5d8d-89ac-57ea76a2e00e-7841658.jpg","altText":"Protesters attend the Day of Solidarity union rally on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023, at Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif. ","caption":"Protesters attend the Day of Solidarity union rally on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023, at Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif. 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Abrysvo is administered as a single-dose injection. \n\nIt was previously approved in the US for older individuals 60 years of age and older and has also been recommended for authorisation in this age group in Europe. \n\nInfants among those most vulnerable \n\n\"RSV is a common cause of illness in children, and infants are among those at highest risk for severe disease, which can lead to hospitalisation,\" said Peter Marks, director of the FDA\u2019s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. \n\n\"This approval provides an option for healthcare providers and pregnant individuals to protect infants from this potentially life-threatening disease\". \n\nThe most common side effects in pregnant women who received the vaccine in clinical trials were pain at the injection site, headache, muscle pain, and nausea. \n\nThe vaccine reduced the risk of severe respiratory illness caused by RSV in infants by 91 per cent when their mothers were vaccinated between 32 and 36 weeks. \n\nIn the EU, Norway, and the United Kingdom, RSV causes an average of 213,000 hospitalisations per year of children under five years old, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). \n\nThe EU and US have also recently approved an antibody treatment to prevent RSV infections in infants from pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and Sanofi. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>US authorities approved a vaccine against Respiratory Syncytial Virus, or RSV, for pregnant women for the first time on Monday to prevent a leading cause of infant hospitalisation.<\/p>\n<p>The vaccine, Abrysvo, has already been recommended by the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2023//07//21//eu-regulators-back-authorisation-of-first-rsv-vaccine-for-infants/">European Medicines Agency (EMA) for authorisation<\/strong><\/a> for infants\u00a0after their mother is vaccinated during pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>RSV is a common respiratory illness that causes cold-like symptoms but can be serious for children and adults aged 50 and older.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7769548\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2023//07//21//eu-regulators-back-authorisation-of-first-rsv-vaccine-for-infants/">EU regulators back authorisation of first RSV vaccine for infants<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It can cause bronchiolitis and pneumonia and lead to fatal respiratory distress.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.fda.gov//news-events//press-announcements//fda-approves-first-vaccine-pregnant-individuals-prevent-rsv-infants/">new authorisation<\/strong><\/a> from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is for women who are between 32 and 36 weeks pregnant. Abrysvo is administered as a single-dose injection.<\/p>\n<p>It was previously approved in the US for older individuals 60 years of age and older and has also been recommended for authorisation in this age group in Europe.<\/p>\n<h2>Infants among those most vulnerable<\/h2><p>\"RSV is a common cause of illness in children, and infants are among those at highest risk for severe disease, which can lead to hospitalisation,\" said Peter Marks, director of the FDA\u2019s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.<\/p>\n<p>\"This approval provides an option for healthcare providers and pregnant individuals to protect infants from this potentially life-threatening disease\".<\/p>\n<p>The most common side effects in pregnant women who received the vaccine in clinical trials were pain at the injection site, headache, muscle pain, and nausea.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7173436\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth 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The entrepreneur, alongside rapper Ja Rule, enticed thousands of people to buy expensive tickets to a luxury music festival on an island in the Bahamas. Due to improper planning, guests arrived to find a scene more akin to a refugee camp following a natural disaster than a swanky Caribbean festival. \n\nThe catastrophe of 2017\u2019s Fyre Festival led to massive social media coverage as people gawped at the many rich punters huddling around paltry cheese sandwiches with schadenfreude-tinted glee.\u00a0 \n\nIt even inspired two damning documentaries, Fyre Fraud and Fyre , and resulted in a $100 million class action lawsuit. \n\nIn 2018, McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison on two counts of wire fraud.\u00a0 \n\nReleased in 2022, he\u2019s back with Fyre Festival II. \n\nThe first Fyre Festival was promoted by a series of paid-for ads pretending to be authentic recommendations from stars including Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid and Emily Ratajkowski. This time, via TikTok and wearing a dressing gown, McFarland himself announced that \u201cas of today, Fyre Festival II tickets are officially on sale.\u201d \n\nThe man, whose Wikipedia page lists him as \u201cBilly McFarland (fraudster)\u201d, explains that: \u201cIt has been the absolute wildest journey to get here, and it really all started during the seven-month stint in solitary confinement.\u201d \n\nMcFarland says that he wrote a \u201c50-page plan\u201d on how to take demand for Fyre Festival and bring it back. His plans supposedly include an After the Fyre documentary, a Broadway show called \u2018Fyre Festival: The Musical\u2019 and the sequel to his ill-fated 2017 music festival. \n\nThe first 100 tickets to the festival are now on sale for $499 (\u20ac458). The 777 pre-sale tickets that will be available then increase incrementally until the 26 tickets priced at $7,999 (approx. \u20ac7,346).\u00a0 \n\nPlanned to take place again on a Caribbean island, McFarland is \u201ctargeting Fyre Festival II for the end of next year.\u201d\u00a0 \n\nAs part of his guilty plea in 2018, the fraudster has to pay $26 million (\u20ac23.8 million) back to his investors. Whether this second attempt at the festival will pay his debts remains to be seen.\u00a0 \n\nAnd it will be seen, with bated breath. \n\n\u201cGuys, this is your chance to get in. This is everything I've been working towards. Let's fucking go,\u201d McFarland finally implores.\u00a0 \n\nAny chance of some press tickets, Billy? \n\n","htmlText":"<p>If you\u2019ve felt that music festivals of late are lacking a certain level of frisson risk, you\u2019re in luck. That\u2019s right. Fyre Festival is back.<\/p>\n<p>Billy McFarland\u2019s first Fyre Festival wasn\u2019t exactly what you\u2019d call a success. The entrepreneur, alongside rapper Ja Rule, enticed thousands of people to buy expensive tickets to a luxury music festival on an island in the Bahamas. Due to improper planning, guests arrived to find a scene more akin to a refugee camp following a natural disaster than a swanky Caribbean festival.<\/p>\n<p>The catastrophe of 2017\u2019s Fyre Festival led to massive social media coverage as people gawped at the many rich punters huddling around paltry cheese sandwiches with schadenfreude-tinted glee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It even inspired two damning documentaries, <em>Fyre Fraud<\/em> and <em>Fyre<\/em>, and resulted in a $100 million class action lawsuit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-xlarge\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here's the dinner they fed us tonight. Literally slices of bread, cheese, and salad with no dressing. <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//hashtag//fyrefraud?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\%22>#fyrefraud<\/a> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//hashtag//fyrefestival?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\%22>#fyrefestival<\/a> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//hashtag//dumpsterfyre?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\%22>#dumpsterfyre<\/a> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////t.co//NmNXakSFlq/">pic.twitter.com//NmNXakSFlq— Tr3vor (@TrevorDeHaas) <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//TrevorDeHaas//status//857787891573022720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\%22>April 28, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////platform.twitter.com//widgets.js/" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In 2018, McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison on two counts of wire fraud.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Released in 2022, he\u2019s back with Fyre Festival II.<\/p>\n<p>The first Fyre Festival was promoted by a series of paid-for ads pretending to be authentic recommendations from stars including Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid and Emily Ratajkowski. This time, via TikTok and wearing a dressing gown, McFarland himself announced that \u201cas of today, Fyre Festival II tickets are officially on sale.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@pyrtbilly\/video\/7269553641441430830\" data-video-id=\"7269553641441430830\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;\" > <section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@pyrtbilly\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.tiktok.com//@pyrtbilly?refer=embed\%22>@pyrtbilly<\/a> <p>FYRE Festival 2 is LIVE! \ud83d\udd17 in bio<\/p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Billy McFarland\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.tiktok.com//music//original-sound-7269553669572447019?refer=embed\%22>\u266c original sound - Billy McFarland<\/a> <\/section> <\/blockquote> <script async src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.tiktok.com//embed.js/"> \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The man, whose Wikipedia page lists him as \u201cBilly McFarland (fraudster)\u201d, explains that: \u201cIt has been the absolute wildest journey to get here, and it really all started during the seven-month stint in solitary confinement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McFarland says that he wrote a \u201c50-page plan\u201d on how to take demand for Fyre Festival and bring it back. His plans supposedly include an <em>After the Fyre<\/em> documentary, a Broadway show called \u2018Fyre Festival: The Musical\u2019 and the sequel to his ill-fated 2017 music festival.<\/p>\n<p>The first 100 tickets to the festival are now on sale for $499 (\u20ac458). The 777 pre-sale tickets that will be available then increase incrementally until the 26 tickets priced at $7,999 (approx. \u20ac7,346).\u00a0<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6711006\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2022//05//19//fyre-festival-founder-released-from-prison-early/">Fyre Festival founder released from prison early<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Planned to take place again on a Caribbean island, McFarland is \u201ctargeting Fyre Festival II for the end of next year.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As part of his guilty plea in 2018, the fraudster has to pay $26 million (\u20ac23.8 million) back to his investors. 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I believe it\u2019s a very powerful symbol of what we can and will do to get through this crisis.\u201d \n\nBiden and first lady Jill Biden\u00a0cut short their week-long holiday to comfort survivors of the devastating wildfires and get a\u00a0close-up look at the devastation. \n\nThey spent most of their time in Lahaina, the historic town of 13,000 people that was virtually destroyed by the flames. \n\n\"But I also want all of you to know the country grieves with you, stands with you, and will do everything possible to help you recover, rebuild and respect culture and traditions when the rebuilding takes place,\" the US president said. \n\nBiden has faced criticism from some Republicans, including 2024 Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, for saying too little during the first days after the catastrophe.\u00a0 \n\nThe White House, however, has pushed back, saying the president acted quickly and kept in close touch with the governor and other emergency officials as the crisis unfolded. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>President Joe Biden on Monday told survivors of Hawaii\u2019s wildfires that the nation \u201cgrieves with you\u201d and promised that the federal government would help \u201cfor as long as it takes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The island of Maui has begun recovery operations from damage caused by the deadliest US wildfire in more than a century.<\/p>\n<p>Biden arrived in Maui 13 days after fire ravaged the western part of the island, killing at least 114 people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eight hundred and fifty people are still missing.\u00a0The flames moved so quickly that residents and visitors were caught off guard. Many were trapped in the streets or forced to jump into the ocean to escape.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7831656,7821672\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//08//18//watch-the-search-goes-on-for-victims-of-the-fire-on-the-hawaiian-island-of-maui/">WATCH: the search goes on for victims of the fire on the Hawaiian island of Maui<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//14//hawaii-wildfires-what-caused-the-deadly-blazes-and-is-climate-change-to-blame/">Hawaii wildfires: What caused the deadly blazes and is climate change to blame?<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Standing near a severely burned 150-year-old banyan tree, the president acknowledged the \u201coverwhelming\u201d devastation but said that Maui would persevere through the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday it\u2019s burned but it\u2019s still standing,\u201d Biden said of the tree. \u201cThe tree survived for a reason. I believe it\u2019s a very powerful symbol of what we can and will do to get through this crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden and first lady Jill Biden\u00a0cut short their week-long holiday to comfort survivors of the devastating wildfires and get a\u00a0close-up look at the devastation.<\/p>\n<p>They spent most of their time in Lahaina, the historic town of 13,000 people that was virtually destroyed by the flames.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1692460626134896981\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"But I also want all of you to know the country grieves with you, stands with you, and will do everything possible to help you recover, rebuild and respect culture and traditions when the 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","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Why are helicopters shooting flames at burning forests in Canada? ","titleListing2":"Canada wildfires: Why are firefighting helicopters shooting flames at burning forests? ","leadin":"Numerous social media users are misleadingly claiming firefighters are actually escalating the more than 400 wildfires raging in British Columbia, after sharing a viral video of a helicopter spraying flammable liquid. ","summary":"Numerous social media users are misleadingly claiming firefighters are actually escalating the more than 400 wildfires raging in British Columbia, after sharing a viral video of a helicopter spraying flammable liquid. ","url":"canada-wildfires-why-are-firefighting-helicopters-shooting-flames-at-burning-forests","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A series of devastating wildfires have engulfed vast areas of forest in British Columbia and the Northwest Territories in Canada, forcing thousands to evacuate their homes.\u00a0 \n\nThe country is having its worst wildfire season on record, with at least 1,000 fires burning across the country, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC). \n\nExperts say climate change increases the risk of hot and dry weather that is likely to fuel the optimal conditions that lead to wildfires.\u00a0 \n\nBut one video has puzzled a number of social media users and sparked conspiracy theories these Canadian forest fires have nothing to do with climate change but have rather been purposefully started by firefighting helicopters.\u00a0 \n\nThe clip shows a helicopter flying above a forest filled with smoke, as a torch suspended from the chopper emits flames. The next shot shows a large area of the land on fire. \n\n\"Canada used drones with flame throwers attached to them and helicopters to start fires all across the country, [Justin] Trudeau called it climate change,\" tweeted one user. \n\n\"I live in Canada. They started the fires with drones and helicopters dropping fireballs,\" claimed another X account, formerly known as Twitter.\u00a0 \n\nBy doing a reverse image search, The Cube found this clip is indeed real and was not doctored.\u00a0 \n\nHowever, the footage does not show the current wildfires in Canada.\u00a0It dates back to June 2023 and was first posted on Youtube by British Columbia\u2019s Wildfire Service.\u00a0 \n\nAccording to the description of the video, the clip shows a planned ignition on the Donnie Creek wildfire with a flame-throwing helicopter called a Heli-torch. \n\nBut, this doesn't mean the helicopters are intentionally escalating forest fires. \n\nAs counterintuitive as it may seem, it\u2019s actually possible to fight fire with fire -- it's called a controlled burn. \n\nDue to the fact, there's no way to spray enough water to put the wildfire out entirely, firefighters need to create a firebreak. \"If you surround a fire with an area without any fuel to burn, it will eventually, go out,\" explains a Wired article. \n\n\u201cPlanned ignitions are an essential wildfire management tool to remove forest fuels and bring the fire\u2019s edge to established control lines with less intensity than free burning fire, thus reducing the ability for further spread,\u201d explains British Columbia\u2019s Wildfire Service. \n\nIn the US, these flame-throwing helicopters are used as a preventive measure.\u00a0 \n\nIn California, authorities purposefully set fire to steep and dry land that was inaccessible to firefighters, in order to prevent wildfires from starting during the summer season.\u00a0 \n\nSimilar videos of planned burns have been shared in the past to spread conspiracy theories during major wildfires or to discredit climate change. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>A series of devastating wildfires have engulfed vast areas of forest in British Columbia and the Northwest Territories in Canada, forcing thousands to evacuate their homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The country is having its worst wildfire season on record, with at least 1,000 fires burning across the country, according to the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.ciffc.ca///">Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC).<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Experts say climate change increases the risk of hot and dry weather that is likely to fuel the optimal conditions that lead to wildfires.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//DiegoTovar1//status//1684255669485182978/">one video has puzzled<\/strong><\/a> a number of social media users and sparked conspiracy theories these Canadian forest fires have nothing to do with climate change but have rather been purposefully started by firefighting helicopters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The clip shows a helicopter flying above a forest filled with smoke, as a torch suspended from the chopper emits flames. The next shot shows a large area of the land on fire.<\/p>\n<p>\"Canada used drones with flame throwers attached to them and helicopters to start fires all across the country, [Justin] Trudeau called it climate change,\" tweeted one user.<\/p>\n<p>\"I live in Canada. They started the fires with drones and helicopters dropping fireballs,\" claimed another X account, formerly known as Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By doing a reverse image search, The Cube found this clip is indeed real and was not doctored.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the footage does not show the current wildfires in Canada.\u00a0It dates back to June 2023 and was first posted on Youtube by British Columbia\u2019s Wildfire Service.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-youtube-embed\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"auto widget__ratio widget__ratio--16x9\">\n <iframe type=\"text\/html\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.youtube.com//embed//tTKSmdrfzqU/" width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen seamless>\n <\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>According to the description of the video, the clip shows a planned ignition on the Donnie Creek wildfire with a flame-throwing helicopter called a Heli-torch.<\/p>\n<p>But, this doesn't mean the helicopters are intentionally escalating forest fires.<\/p>\n<p>As counterintuitive as it may seem, it\u2019s actually possible to fight fire with fire -- it's called <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.fs.usda.gov//science-technology//fire/">a controlled burn.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Due to the fact, there's no way to spray enough water to put the wildfire out entirely, firefighters need to create a firebreak. \"If you surround a fire with an area without any fuel to burn, it will eventually, go out,\" <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.wired.com//2015//08//flame-throwing-helicopter-fights-wildfires///">explains a Wired article.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlanned ignitions are an essential wildfire management tool to remove forest fuels and bring the fire\u2019s edge to established control lines with less intensity than free burning fire, thus reducing the ability for further spread,\u201d explains British Columbia\u2019s Wildfire Service.<\/p>\n<p>In the US, these flame-throwing helicopters are used as a preventive measure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In California, authorities <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.wired.com//2015//08//flame-throwing-helicopter-fights-wildfires///">purposefully set fire<\/strong><\/a> to steep and dry land that was inaccessible to firefighters, in order to prevent wildfires from starting during the summer season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Similar videos of planned burns have been shared in the past to spread conspiracy theories during major wildfires or to discredit climate change.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1692626907,"publishedAt":1692676839,"updatedAt":1692677355,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/08\/22\/canada-wildfires-why-are-firefighting-helicopters-shooting-flames-at-burning-forests","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/69\/10\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_b43a0ce1-50b6-5020-a544-ad1cc0c024c3-7836910.jpg","altText":"This handout photo shows the town of Fort Smith, Canada during the wildfires, on August 13, 2023. 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The adrenaline, the feeling of freedom is surreal. You just have to ride it to know,\" railroader\u00a0Guilherme Mellem said.\u00a0 \n\n\"As you can see, today at the Virada Cultural Festival people of all ages are racing downhill: children, women, and elderly people.\u00a0 \n\n\"I was riding downhill myself with a couple of little boys in a stroller, so it's for all ages.\" \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The festival also features diverse art shows and cultural events, but the main attraction is the soapbox race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The carts are mostly made of wood and bearings as wheels; some can reach over 50-kilometres-per-hour.<\/p>\n<p>\"Adrenaline! The adrenaline, the feeling of freedom is surreal. 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He has said that climate change is a lie and has characterised sex education as a ploy to destroy the family. He has also said that the sale of human organs should be legal. \n\nGun ownership is severely restricted in Argentina. Milei proposes the \"deregulation of the legal market\" for weapons and \"the protection of its legitimate and responsible use by the citizens,\" according to his party's electoral platform. \n\nArgentina's government decided to devalue the local currency by 20% early Monday morning after the surprising Sunday showing. Two mainstream political coalitions have traded power for a decade in Argentina. The country is now the latest where voters have picked an outsider candidate to express anger against the status quo. \n\nChristopher Sabatini, a Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House in London told Euronews that Javier Milei\u2019s popularity is symptomatic of a sense of political malaise among voters in many countries. \n\nHe said: \"There is a sense that there's been no political renovation, that politicians are unaccountable. But also the sense of profound economic insecurity that's driving this. When people don't trust their politicians, when they don't trust their institutions, they look for extreme answers outside the system\". \n\nOperators were watching nervously Monday as the value of the peso also decreased in the parallel, or blue, market, dropping 12% by early afternoon. \n\nMilei said the government was trying to blame his victory for the depreciation of the currency. \n\n\"One of the things the government is trying to convey is that devaluation and all these things are our fault,\" Milei said in an interview Monday with cable news channel LN+. \n\nThe drop in the value of the peso means that already-high inflation will accelerate, making getting to the end of the month even harder for ordinary people. \n\n\"The more the dollar rises, the more expensive things become,\" Marta Gisela Barrera, a 29-year-old urban recycler who has trouble buying enough food for her four children, said on Monday morning. \"I don't know what's going to happen anymore.\" \n\nArgentina requires that citizens vote, with a symbolic financial penalty for not voting, and 69% of the country's 35 million voters went to the polls, each choosing candidates for positions ranging from local councilman to president. It marked the lowest participation for presidential primaries since the current system was set up in 2009. \n\nThe major parties had contested races to be its presidential candidate. Milei was uncontested and got a few points more than the candidates of parties that have dominated Argentine politics. \n\nAfter doing much better than expected, the upstart candidate with long sideburns and shaggy hair who gained notoriety and a rockstar-like following by angrily ranting against the \"political caste\" is now a real contender for the presidency. \n\n\"We've had 40 years of failures, don't tell me this time will be different. The central problem is that the solution to the problem is in the hands of the same problem, which is the politicians,\" Milei said in the LN+ interview. \n\nIn Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro was president from 2019 to 2022 and had a similar anti-left and anti-social justice orientation. Right-wing populists are also making inroads with a tough-on-crime message, most notably in El Salvador, where the popularity of President Nayib Bukele has soared amid a crackdown on gangs that has led to human rights abuses. \n\nIf he were to win \"my allies would be the United States and Israel,\" Millei said, adding he would move Argentina's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, following in Trump's footsteps. \n\nWith around 97% of polling locations reporting, Milei had around 30% of the total vote, according to official results. The candidates in the main opposition coalition, United for Change, were at 28% and the governing Union for the Homeland coalition had 27%. \n\nIn order to win the vote in two months, Milei would have to increase his share of the nation's votes by 15%, a high hurdle even in a nation where voters tend to favour candidates they see as winners. \n\nIf one candidate doesn't receive 45% of the vote, they would need 40% and a 10-point lead over the second-place candidate. Otherwise, the race would go to a November runoff between the top two. \n\nCelebrating in his election headquarters, Milei vowed to bring \"an end to the parasitic, corrupt and useless political caste that exists in this country.\" \n\n\"Today we took the first step toward the reconstruction of Argentina,\" he said. \"A different Argentina is impossible with the same people as always.\" \n\nIn Buenos Aires on Monday, Milei's supporters seemed most excited about someone new coming into the scene. \n\n\"We always end up going back to the other party, then the other comes back, and it's a cycle that keeps us in the same situation,\" Clara Costa, a 54-year-old administrative assistant, said. \n\nMilei has been a lawmaker in the lower house of Argentina's Congress since 2021. \n\nArgentina is struggling with annual inflation of over 100%, rising poverty and a rapidly depreciating currency, and Milei first attracted wider support by calling for the country to replace the peso with the U.S. dollar. \n\nMilei would need Congress to support that and that would be highly unlikely. As a result, he has said he would push for a referendum or a non-binding popular vote on the issue, although it's also unclear if he would be able to push that through without the support of lawmakers. \n\nAsked about the vote in Argentina, Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador stated that inflation and economic crises \"always benefit the right and conservatism, which is somewhat what's happening in Argentina,\" and he mentioned the case of Hitler. He immediately made clear he wasn't making a direct comparison between the two but said it was \"important to remember\" that \"inflation actually helped\" Hitler rise to power. \n\nBolsonaro's lawmaker son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, celebrated the results, characterising them on social media as \"an excellent start to what could be the real change that Argentina needs.\" Days before the primaries, former President Bolsonaro published a short video wishing Milei luck in the election. \n\nThe main opposition coalition, United for Change, moved more to the right as former Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, who made toughness on crime a centrepiece of her campaign, handily beat a more centrist contender. \n\nIn the currently governing coalition, Union for the Homeland, the more business-friendly candidate \u2014 Economy Minister Sergio Massa \u2014 easily beat a leftist contender but still took an overall beating from voters frustrated over the poor state of the economy, finishing in third place for total votes. \n\nAt Milei's electoral headquarters, party leaders were ecstatic while people celebrated outside, expressing optimism that their candidate's support would only grow in the run-up to October. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The Argentine peso plunged this week after an anti-establishment candidate who admires former President Donald Trump came first in primary elections that will help determine the country's next president.<\/p>\n<p>Javier Milei rocked Argentina's political establishment by receiving the biggest share of primary votes for presidential candidates in the October general election to decide who leads a nation battered by economic woes.<\/p>\n<p>Milei, 52, wants to replace the peso with the dollar and says that Argentina's Central Bank should be abolished. He has said that climate change is a lie and has characterised sex education as a ploy to destroy the family. He has also said that the sale of human organs should be legal.<\/p>\n<p>Gun ownership is severely restricted in Argentina. Milei proposes the \"deregulation of the legal market\" for weapons and \"the protection of its legitimate and responsible use by the citizens,\" according to his party's electoral platform.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina's government decided to devalue the local currency by 20% early Monday morning after the surprising Sunday showing. Two mainstream political coalitions have traded power for a decade in Argentina. The country is now the latest where voters have picked an outsider candidate to express anger against the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Sabatini, a Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House in London told Euronews that Javier Milei\u2019s popularity is symptomatic of a sense of political malaise among voters in many countries.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \"There is a sense that there's been no political renovation, that politicians are unaccountable. But also the sense of profound economic insecurity that's driving this. When people don't trust their politicians, when they don't trust their institutions, they look for extreme answers outside the system\".<\/p>\n<p>Operators were watching nervously Monday as the value of the peso also decreased in the parallel, or blue, market, dropping 12% by early afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Milei said the government was trying to blame his victory for the depreciation of the currency.<\/p>\n<p>\"One of the things the government is trying to convey is that devaluation and all these things are our fault,\" Milei said in an interview Monday with cable news channel LN+.<\/p>\n<p>The drop in the value of the peso means that already-high inflation will accelerate, making getting to the end of the month even harder for ordinary people.<\/p>\n<p>\"The more the dollar rises, the more expensive things become,\" Marta Gisela Barrera, a 29-year-old urban recycler who has trouble buying enough food for her four children, said on Monday morning. \"I don't know what's going to happen anymore.\"<\/p>\n<p>Argentina requires that citizens vote, with a symbolic financial penalty for not voting, and 69% of the country's 35 million voters went to the polls, each choosing candidates for positions ranging from local councilman to president. It marked the lowest participation for presidential primaries since the current system was set up in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The major parties had contested races to be its presidential candidate. Milei was uncontested and got a few points more than the candidates of parties that have dominated Argentine politics.<\/p>\n<p>After doing much better than expected, the upstart candidate with long sideburns and shaggy hair who gained notoriety and a rockstar-like following by angrily ranting against the \"political caste\" is now a real contender for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\"We've had 40 years of failures, don't tell me this time will be different. The central problem is that the solution to the problem is in the hands of the same problem, which is the politicians,\" Milei said in the LN+ interview.<\/p>\n<p>In Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro was president from 2019 to 2022 and had a similar anti-left and anti-social justice orientation. Right-wing populists are also making inroads with a tough-on-crime message, most notably in El Salvador, where the popularity of President Nayib Bukele has soared amid a crackdown on gangs that has led to human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p>If he were to win \"my allies would be the United States and Israel,\" Millei said, adding he would move Argentina's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, following in Trump's footsteps.<\/p>\n<p>With around 97% of polling locations reporting, Milei had around 30% of the total vote, according to official results. The candidates in the main opposition coalition, United for Change, were at 28% and the governing Union for the Homeland coalition had 27%.<\/p>\n<p>In order to win the vote in two months, Milei would have to increase his share of the nation's votes by 15%, a high hurdle even in a nation where voters tend to favour candidates they see as winners.<\/p>\n<p>If one candidate doesn't receive 45% of the vote, they would need 40% and a 10-point lead over the second-place candidate. Otherwise, the race would go to a November runoff between the top two.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating in his election headquarters, Milei vowed to bring \"an end to the parasitic, corrupt and useless political caste that exists in this country.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Today we took the first step toward the reconstruction of Argentina,\" he said. \"A different Argentina is impossible with the same people as always.\"<\/p>\n<p>In Buenos Aires on Monday, Milei's supporters seemed most excited about someone new coming into the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\"We always end up going back to the other party, then the other comes back, and it's a cycle that keeps us in the same situation,\" Clara Costa, a 54-year-old administrative assistant, said.<\/p>\n<p>Milei has been a lawmaker in the lower house of Argentina's Congress since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina is struggling with annual inflation of over 100%, rising poverty and a rapidly depreciating currency, and Milei first attracted wider support by calling for the country to replace the peso with the U.S. dollar.<\/p>\n<p>Milei would need Congress to support that and that would be highly unlikely. As a result, he has said he would push for a referendum or a non-binding popular vote on the issue, although it's also unclear if he would be able to push that through without the support of lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the vote in Argentina, Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador stated that inflation and economic crises \"always benefit the right and conservatism, which is somewhat what's happening in Argentina,\" and he mentioned the case of Hitler. He immediately made clear he wasn't making a direct comparison between the two but said it was \"important to remember\" that \"inflation actually helped\" Hitler rise to power.<\/p>\n<p>Bolsonaro's lawmaker son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, celebrated the results, characterising them on social media as \"an excellent start to what could be the real change that Argentina needs.\" Days before the primaries, former President Bolsonaro published a short video wishing Milei luck in the election.<\/p>\n<p>The main opposition coalition, United for Change, moved more to the right as former Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, who made toughness on crime a centrepiece of her campaign, handily beat a more centrist contender.<\/p>\n<p>In the currently governing coalition, Union for the Homeland, the more business-friendly candidate \u2014 Economy Minister Sergio Massa \u2014 easily beat a leftist contender but still took an overall beating from voters frustrated over the poor state of the economy, finishing in third place for total votes.<\/p>\n<p>At Milei's electoral headquarters, party leaders were ecstatic while people celebrated outside, expressing optimism that their candidate's support would only grow in the run-up to October.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1692192120,"publishedAt":1692598072,"updatedAt":1692599164,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/08\/21\/dont-cry-for-milei-argentina-peso-plunges-after-populist-tops-primary-polls","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/63\/66\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_671c5cb4-b3e6-53ff-b875-b980ca28e7c7-7826366.jpg","altText":"Javier Milei, presidential candidate of the Liberty Advances coalition, after polling stations closed during primary elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2","caption":"Javier Milei, presidential candidate of the Liberty Advances coalition, after polling stations closed during primary elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2","captionCredit":"Natacha Pisarenko\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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The storm already dumped more than 15cm of rain in some mountain communities and threatened more than an average year's worth of rain in inland desert areas. \n\nHilary made landfall along the Mexican coast in a sparsely populated area about 250km\u00a0 south of Ensenada on Sunday, then moved through mudslide-prone Tijuana, threatening the improvised homes that cling to hillsides just south of the U.S. border. By Sunday evening, the storm had moved over San Diego and was headed north into inland desert areas. \n\nAs evening fell in California, the National Weather Service in Los Angeles warned of significant flooding risk throughout populous mountain areas along the coast northeast of Los Angeles. \n\n\u201cPLEASE ... STAY OFF THE ROADS,\u201d the agency posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. \n\nMud and boulders spilled onto highways, water gushed onto roadways and tree branches fell in neighborhoods from San Diego to Los Angeles. Dozens of cars were trapped in floodwaters in typically hot and dry Palm Desert and surrounding communities across the the Coachella Valley. Crews pumped floodwaters out of the emergency room at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage. \n\nHilary could wallop other Western states with once-in-a-century rains, with a good chance of it becoming the wettest known tropical cyclone to douse Nevada, Oregon and Idaho. Hilary was expected to remain a tropical storm into central Nevada early Monday before dissipating. \n\nThe Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest school system, and said all campuses would be closed on Monday. San Diego schools postponed the first day of classes from Monday to Tuesday. \n\n\u201cThere is no way we can compromise the safety of a single child or an employee, and our inability to survey buildings, our inability to determine access to schools makes it nearly impossible for us to open schools,\" Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said at a media briefing. \n\nSouthern California got another surprise in the afternoon as an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 hit near Ojai, about 80 miles (130 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was felt widely and was followed by smaller aftershocks. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injury, according to \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Tropical Storm Hilary inundated streets across Mexico\u2019s arid Baja California Peninsula with deadly floodwaters before moving over Southern California, where it swamped roads and downed trees, as concerns mounted that flash floods could strike in places as far north as Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters said Hilary was the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, bringing floods, mudslides, high winds, power outages and the potential for isolated tornadoes. The storm already dumped more than 15cm of rain in some mountain communities and threatened more than an average year's worth of rain in inland desert areas.<\/p>\n<p>Hilary made landfall along the Mexican coast in a sparsely populated area about 250km\u00a0 south of Ensenada on Sunday, then moved through mudslide-prone Tijuana, threatening the improvised homes that cling to hillsides just south of the U.S. border. By Sunday evening, the storm had moved over San Diego and was headed north into inland desert areas.<\/p>\n<p>As evening fell in California, the National Weather Service in Los Angeles warned of significant flooding risk throughout populous mountain areas along the coast northeast of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPLEASE ... STAY OFF THE ROADS,\u201d the agency posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Mud and boulders spilled onto highways, water gushed onto roadways and tree branches fell in neighborhoods from San Diego to Los Angeles. Dozens of cars were trapped in floodwaters in typically hot and dry Palm Desert and surrounding communities across the the Coachella Valley. Crews pumped floodwaters out of the emergency room at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1693399130998292754\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Hilary could wallop other Western states with once-in-a-century rains, with a good chance of it becoming the wettest known tropical cyclone to douse Nevada, Oregon and Idaho. Hilary was expected to remain a tropical storm into central Nevada early Monday before dissipating.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest school system, and said all campuses would be closed on Monday. San Diego schools postponed the first day of classes from Monday to Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no way we can compromise the safety of a single child or an employee, and our inability to survey buildings, our inability to determine access to schools makes it nearly impossible for us to open schools,\" Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said at a media briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Southern California got another surprise in the afternoon as an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 hit near Ojai, about 80 miles (130 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was felt widely and was followed by smaller aftershocks. 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More reinforcements are on the way, the central government said. \n\nThe fire is located in a steep and craggy mountain area with pine trees, with several municipalities on its flanks. Access for firefighters is extremely difficult. \n\nThe Canary Islands have been in drought for most of the past few years, just like most of mainland Spain. The islands have recorded below-average rainfall in recent years because of changing weather patterns impacted by climate change. \n\nEuropean Union officials have blamed climate change for the increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires in Europe, noting that 2022 was the second-worst year for wildfire damage on record after 2017. \n\n\n\nThousands flee the flames in Canada \n\nIn Canada, at least 19,000 people have been evacuated from the city of Yellowknife according to officials in the Northwest Territories. That figure amounts to the entire population. \n\nThey said 15,000 people fled by road, 3,800 were evacuated by air while at least 300 firefighters were mobilised to fight the flames. \n\nFirefighters are battling to control more than 200 blazes that have forced thousands more to retreat to evacuation centres throughout Alberta as far south as Calgary. \n\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Officials say around 26,000 people are being moved to safety in Tenerife.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Strong winds and higher temperatures have helped to spread the flames of a huge forest fire while the difficult terrain and billowing smoke are hampering efforts to control it. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0On Saturday Firefighters said there were still three active areas of the fire. <\/p>\n<p>\"But now we know exactly the areas where we have to attack the fire and those where we need to build protections,\"\u00a0Fernando Grande Marlaska, acting Minister of the Interior, told reporters.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>No injuries have been reported since the fire broke out late on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Some 265 firefighters battled the blaze with the help of 19 aircraft, which included units from the mainland sent to help. More reinforcements are on the way, the central government said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire is located in a steep and craggy mountain area with pine trees, with several municipalities on its flanks. Access for firefighters is extremely difficult.<\/p>\n<p>The Canary Islands have been in drought for most of the past few years, just like most of mainland Spain. The islands have recorded below-average rainfall in recent years because of changing weather patterns impacted by climate change. <\/p>\n<p>European Union officials have blamed climate change for the increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires in Europe, noting that 2022 was the second-worst year for wildfire damage on record after 2017. <\/p>\n<h2>Thousands flee the flames in Canada<\/h2><p>In Canada, at least 19,000 people have been evacuated from the city of Yellowknife according to officials in the Northwest Territories. That figure amounts to the entire population.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1692923160331690172\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>They said 15,000 people fled by road, 3,800 were evacuated by air while at least 300 firefighters were mobilised to fight the flames. <\/p>\n<p>Firefighters are battling to control more than 200 blazes that have forced thousands more to retreat to evacuation centres throughout Alberta as far south as Calgary.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1692460890,"publishedAt":1692472480,"updatedAt":1692521286,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/08\/19\/tens-of-thousands-flee-as-wildfires-rage-in-tenerife-and-canada","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/33\/96\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_f3e019d9-c4b2-52b7-a860-118b85c49cea-7833396.jpg","altText":"Emergency crews and firefighters are working to extinguish the fire advancing through the forest in La Orotava in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023","caption":"Emergency crews and firefighters are working to extinguish the fire advancing through the forest in La Orotava in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023","captionCredit":"Arturo Rodriguez\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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This included types of jobs along with retirement and passive income from investments that support polluting industries. \n\nAnalysing the incomes and emissions of five million US individuals between 1990 and 2019, it found a \u201csignificant and growing emissions inequality that cuts across economic and racial lines.\u201d \n\nThe richest 1 per cent of households were found to be responsible for 15 to 17 per cent of all emissions in the US. Of this, 38 to 43 per cent was tied to investments. \n\nWhite non-Hispanic households were the highest emitters (33-36 tonnes CO2e annually) while Black households were the lowest (17 tonnes CO2e). \n\nIn 2019, people in the top 1 per cent for income were 76 per cent White non-Hispanic, 8 per cent Hispanic and only 3 per cent Black , the study notes. \n\nThese disparities have grown over time. \n\nThis demonstrates \u201ca powerful disconnect between those facing the worst climate impacts and those reaping the economic and consumption benefits that drive greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions\u201d, the authors write. \n\nVarious other research has shown that low income households and countries that contribute least to climate change tend to face its worst effects. \n\nSuper emitters: Which types of jobs are most polluting? \n\nTermed \u2018super emitters\u2019, 43,200 US households were found to emit more than 3,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year. \n\nFinance, real estate, insurance, manufacturing, mining and quarrying were among the most common industries for super emitters. \n\nHouseholds earning income from accommodation, restaurants, education, retail and wholesale trade were least represented in this category. \n\nShould investments face a carbon tax? \n\nThose who benefit most from planet-heating emissions should be held most responsible for mitigating them, the study argues. \n\nThe findings support the need for an income based carbon tax - especially on investors, its authors say. \n\nThis could incentivise people to shift their investments to less polluting industries or funds, while generating the money needed to help keep the globe within the 1.5C warming limit. \n\nTax revenue could be used for climate adaptation and mitigation schemes, including loss and damage funds, they suggest. \n\nThis would help to address the disparities between those driving the most emissions and those disproportionately experiencing the harms they cause. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The richest 10 per cent of US households are responsible for 40 per cent of the country\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions, a new study reveals.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than focusing on consumption - such as transport, food or energy use - the study looked at emissions linked to people\u2019s income.<\/p>\n<p>They found that <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//11//08//billionaires-responsible-for-million-times-more-emissions-than-average-person-oxfam-report/">wealthy US households reap the biggest benefit from emissions while being most responsible for them.<\/p>\n<p>The study's authors argue that an income based <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//12//carbon-tax-on-luxury-items-is-a-fairer-and-more-effective-way-to-cut-emissions-research-re/">carbon tax<\/strong><\/a> - particularly on investments - could help reduce climate inequality and fund much needed decarbonisation measures.<\/p>\n<h2>Rich households responsible for the most emissions in the US<\/h2><p>The <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////journals.plos.org//climate//article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pclm.0000190\%22>study<\/strong><\/a>, published in the PLOS Climate journal, examined data on emissions generated by the way people earn money. This included types of jobs along with retirement and passive income from investments that support <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//05//23//repeat-offenders-these-are-the-top-10-most-polluting-power-plants-in-europe/">polluting industries.<\/p>\n<p>Analysing the incomes and emissions of five million US individuals between 1990 and 2019, it found a \u201csignificant and growing emissions inequality that cuts across economic and racial lines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//10//18//worlds-second-richest-man-sells-private-jet-after-twitter-activists-track-every-flight/">richest 1 per cent of households were found to be responsible for 15 to 17 per cent of all emissions in the US. Of this, 38 to 43 per cent was tied to investments.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7702664,7480260\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//06//23//only-the-super-wealthy-stand-to-lose-money-from-shutting-down-fossil-fuels-study-finds/">Only the super wealthy stand to lose money from shutting down fossil fuels, study finds<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//03//22//millionaires-will-burn-through-two-thirds-of-the-worlds-carbon-budget-by-2050-scientists-w/">Millionaires will burn through two-thirds of the world\u2019s carbon budget by 2050, scientists warn<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>White non-Hispanic households were the highest emitters (33-36 tonnes CO2e annually) while Black households were the lowest (17 tonnes CO2e).<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, people in the top 1 per cent for income were 76 per cent White non-Hispanic, 8 per cent Hispanic and only 3 per cent <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//05//23//pollution-healthcare-and-racism-black-children-in-the-us-are-twice-as-likely-to-have-asthm/">Black, the study notes.<\/p>\n<p>These disparities have grown over time.<\/p>\n<p>This demonstrates \u201ca powerful disconnect between those facing the worst climate impacts and those reaping the economic and consumption <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//04//11//swimming-pools-of-the-rich-leave-poorer-communities-without-water-scientists-say/">benefits that drive greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions\u201d, the authors 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More testing for PFAS is due to take place between 2023 and 2025 with results being published every three months. \n\n\u201cPFAS are an urgent public health issue facing people and communities across the nation,\u201d Radhika Fox, EPA assistant administrator for water, said in a press release. \n\n\u201cThe latest science is clear: exposure to certain PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, over long periods of time is linked to significant health risks.\u201d \n\nFox added that the EPA is conducting the \u201cmost comprehensive monitoring effort for PFAS ever\u201d. \n\nAgency officials have said that this will help inform what actions are taken to protect drinking water in the US. \n\nUS government needs to finalise water drinking standards \n\nAn analysis of the data from non-profit the Environmental Working Group (EWG) discovered levels of these toxic chemicals above reporting limits at 431 water systems. \n\nThe results are consistent with another study carried out by the non-profit in 2020 which estimated that more than 200 million Americans could have forever chemicals in their drinking water. \n\nIt expects that the true scale of PFAS contamination is actually much greater than the latest testing shows. \n\n\u201cFor decades, millions of Americans have unknowingly consumed water tainted with PFAS,\u201d says Scott Faber, senior vice president for government affairs at EWG. \n\n\u201cThe new testing data shows that escaping PFAS is nearly impossible.\u201d \n\nThe EWG says that the US government must finalise drinking water standards this year and make limits for forever chemicals enforceable. \n\nWhat are PFAS and why are they a problem? \n\nPFAS are known as forever chemicals because once they are released into the environment, they don\u2019t break down. In 2022, scientists at the University of Stockholm found them in rainwater almost everywhere on Earth . \n\nThese toxic substances have also been found in blood and breast milk and can build up in our bodies. Research has linked PFAS to health concerns like cancers, reproductive issues and developmental issues in children. \n\nThe EWG estimates that there could be almost 30,000 industrial polluters releasing PFAS into the environment in the US - including into drinking water sources. \n\n\u201cCommunities and families across the nation are bearing the burden of chemical companies\u2019 callous disregard for human health and the government\u2019s inaction,\u201d Faber says. \n\n\u201cThis PFAS crisis calls for immediate action to ensure all Americans have safe and clean drinking water.\u201d \n\nHe says this means ending all non-essential uses of PFAS - including compounds used in everyday household products. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Almost half of America\u2019s tap water could contain toxic \u2018forever chemicals\u2019 known as PFAS, according to government data.<\/p>\n<p>Testing by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revealed that water for as many as 26 million people in hundreds of communities across the country had measurable levels of PFAS.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first round of testing in the effort to check most US water systems for forever chemicals and the metal lithium over the next three years. More testing for PFAS is due to take place between 2023 and 2025 with results being published every three months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPFAS are an urgent public health issue facing people and communities across the nation,\u201d Radhika Fox, EPA assistant administrator for water, said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe latest science is clear: exposure to certain PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, over long periods of time is linked to significant health risks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox added that the EPA is conducting the \u201cmost comprehensive monitoring effort for PFAS ever\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Agency officials have said that this will help inform what actions are taken to protect <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//17//25-countries-now-face-extreme-water-stress-every-year-three-of-them-are-in-europe/">drinking water<\/strong><\/a> in the US.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7802002,7465418\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//03//15//us-to-limit-toxic-forever-chemicals-in-drinking-water-will-the-eu-follow-suit/">US to limit toxic 'forever chemicals' in drinking water. Will the EU follow suit?<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//04//forever-chemicals-and-blood-cancer-jersey-residents-consider-class-action-lawsuit-over-pfa/">Forever chemicals and blood cancer: Jersey residents consider class action lawsuit over PFAS<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>US government needs to finalise water drinking standards<\/h2><p>An analysis of the data from non-profit the Environmental Working Group (EWG) discovered levels of these toxic chemicals above reporting limits at 431 water systems.<\/p>\n<p>The results are consistent with another study carried out by the non-profit in 2020 which estimated that more than 200 million Americans could have forever chemicals in their <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//09//we-have-never-seen-it-so-low-spain-introduces-water-restrictions-as-reservoirs-run-dry/">drinking water.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It expects that the true scale of PFAS contamination is actually much greater than the latest testing shows.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//83//16//06//808x454_cmsv2_e935be60-4224-5fc4-a6b1-63c32c1b3148-7831606.jpg/" alt=\"Canva\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/16\/06\/384x216_cmsv2_e935be60-4224-5fc4-a6b1-63c32c1b3148-7831606.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/16\/06\/640x360_cmsv2_e935be60-4224-5fc4-a6b1-63c32c1b3148-7831606.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/16\/06\/750x422_cmsv2_e935be60-4224-5fc4-a6b1-63c32c1b3148-7831606.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/16\/06\/828x466_cmsv2_e935be60-4224-5fc4-a6b1-63c32c1b3148-7831606.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/16\/06\/1080x608_cmsv2_e935be60-4224-5fc4-a6b1-63c32c1b3148-7831606.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/16\/06\/1200x675_cmsv2_e935be60-4224-5fc4-a6b1-63c32c1b3148-7831606.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/16\/06\/1920x1080_cmsv2_e935be60-4224-5fc4-a6b1-63c32c1b3148-7831606.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Forever chemicals don't break down once released into the environment.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Canva<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor decades, millions of Americans have unknowingly consumed water tainted with PFAS,\u201d says Scott Faber, senior vice president for government affairs at EWG.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new testing data shows that escaping PFAS is nearly impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The EWG says that the US government must finalise drinking water standards this year and make limits for forever chemicals enforceable.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7547382,6696006\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//04//20//diet-exercise-and-forever-chemicals-new-research-shows-links-between-toxic-pfas-and-weight/">Diet, exercise - and forever chemicals? New research shows links between toxic PFAS and weight gain<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2022//08//08//forever-chemicals-how-toxic-are-the-levels-of-pfas-found-in-french-tap-water-and-breast-mi/">Toxic levels of 'forever chemicals' are being found in breast milk. How harmful are they?<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>What are PFAS and why are they a problem?<\/h2><p>PFAS are known as forever chemicals because once they are released into the environment, they don\u2019t break down. In 2022, scientists at the University of Stockholm <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//08//04//rainwater-everywhere-on-earth-unsafe-to-drink-due-to-forever-chemicals-study-finds/">found them in rainwater almost everywhere on Earth<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These toxic substances have also been found in blood and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2022//08//08//forever-chemicals-how-toxic-are-the-levels-of-pfas-found-in-french-tap-water-and-breast-mi/">breast milk<\/strong><\/a> and can build up in our bodies. Research has linked PFAS to health concerns like cancers, reproductive issues and developmental issues in children.<\/p>\n<p>The EWG estimates that there could be almost 30,000 industrial polluters releasing PFAS into the environment in the US - including into drinking water sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommunities and families across the nation are bearing the burden of chemical companies\u2019 callous disregard for human health and the government\u2019s inaction,\u201d Faber says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis PFAS crisis calls for immediate action to ensure all Americans have safe and clean drinking water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says this means <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//02//06//from-magnets-to-lawsuits-heres-how-we-can-fix-the-forever-chemicals-problem/">ending all non-essential uses of PFAS<\/strong><\/a> - including compounds used in everyday household products.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1692367644,"publishedAt":1692370832,"updatedAt":1692372043,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2023\/08\/18\/escaping-pfas-is-nearly-impossible-nearly-half-of-us-tap-water-tainted-with-forever-chemic","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/16\/06\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_2c43c64a-2bec-5344-965d-b53098099f80-7831606.jpg","altText":"Drinking water across the US was found to be contaminated with PFAS. 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Researchers are set to track the kidney's performance for a second month. \n\n\"Is this organ really going to work like a human organ? So far it's looking like it is,\" NYU Langone's transplant institute director Dr Robert Montgomery told The Associated Press. \n\n\"It looks even better than a human kidney,\" Montgomery said on 14 July as he replaced a deceased man's own kidneys with a single kidney from a genetically modified pig - and watched it immediately start producing urine. \n\nShortage of organs \n\nThe possibility that pig kidneys might one day help ease a dire shortage of transplantable organs persuaded the family of Maurice \"Mo\" Miller from upstate New York to donate his body for the experiment. He'd died suddenly at 57 with a previously undiagnosed brain cancer, ruling out routine organ donation. \n\n\"I struggled with it,\" his sister, Mary Miller-Duffy, told the AP about her decision. But he liked helping others and \"I think this is what my brother would want. So I offered my brother to them.\" \n\n\"He's going to be in the medical books, and he will live on forever,\" she added. \n\nAttempts at animal-to-human transplants, or xenotransplantation, have failed for decades as people's immune systems attacked the foreign tissue. Now researchers are using pigs genetically modified so their organs better match human bodies. \n\nXenotransplantation \n\nLast year with special permission from regulators, the University of Maryland surgeons transplanted a gene-edited pig heart into a dying man who was out of other options. He survived only two months before the organ failed for reasons that aren't fully understood but that offer lessons for future attempts. \n\nNext, rather than last-ditch efforts, the Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to allow some small but rigorous studies of pig heart or kidney transplants in volunteer patients. \n\nThe NYU experiment is one of a string of developments aimed at speeding the start of such clinical trials. Also Wednesday, the University of Alabama at Birmingham reported another important success - a pair of pig kidneys worked normally inside another donated body for seven days. \n\nKidneys don't just make urine - they provide a wide range of jobs in the body. In the journal JAMA Surgery, UAB transplant surgeon Dr Jayme Locke reported lab tests documenting the gene-modified pig organs' performance. She said the weeklong experiment demonstrates they can \"provide life-sustaining kidney function\". \n\nThese kinds of experiments are critical to answer remaining questions \"in a setting where we're not putting someone's life in jeopardy,\" said Montgomery, the NYU kidney transplant surgeon who also received his own heart transplant - and is acutely aware of the need for a new source of organs. \n\nMore than 100,000 patients are on the nation's transplant list in the US and thousands die each year waiting. \n\n100,000 patients are on America's transplant waiting list \n\nMaryland's Dr Muhammad Mohiuddin cautioned that it was not clear how closely a deceased body will mimic a live patient's reactions to a pig organ. But he said the research educated the public about xenotransplantation so \"people will not be shocked\" when it's time to try again in the living. \n\nPreviously, NYU and a team at the University of Alabama at Birmingham had tested pig kidney transplants in deceased recipients for just two or three days. An NYU team also had transplanted pig hearts into donated bodies for three days of intense testing. \n\nBut how do pig organs react to a more common human immune attack that takes about a month to form? Only longer testing might tell. \n\nThe surgery itself isn't that different from thousands he's performed \"but somewhere in the back of your mind is the enormity of what you're doing ... recognising that this could have a huge impact on the future of transplantation,\" Montgomery said. \n\nThe operation took careful timing. Early that morning Drs Adam Griesemer and Jeffrey Stern flew hundreds of miles to a facility where Virginia-based Revivicor Inc. houses genetically modified pigs - and retrieved kidneys lacking a gene that would trigger immediate destruction by the human immune system. \n\nAs they raced back to NYU, Montgomery was removing both kidneys from the donated body so there'd be no doubt if the soon-to-arrive pig version was working. One pig kidney was transplanted, and the other was stored for comparison when the experiment ends. \n\nOne other trick: Surgeons attached the pig's thymus to the transplanted kidney in hopes that the gland, which helps train immune cells, would increase human tolerance of the organ. Otherwise, the team is relying on standard immune-suppressing drugs used by today's transplant patients. \n\n\"You're always nervous,\" Griesemer said. To see it so rapidly kickstart, \"there was a lot of thrill and lot of sense of relief.\" \n\nHow long should these experiments last? Alabama's Locke said that's not clear \u2013 and among the ethical questions are how long a family is comfortable or whether it's adding to their grief. Because maintaining a brain-dead person on a ventilator is difficult, it's also dependent on how stable the donated body is. \n\nIn her own experiment, the donated body was stable enough that if the study wasn't required to end after a week, \"I think we could have gone much longer, which I think offers great hope,\" she said. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Surgeons transplanted a pig's kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it's worked normally - a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists around the world are racing to learn how to use animal organs to save human lives, and bodies donated for research offer a remarkable rehearsal.<\/p>\n<p>The latest experiment announced Wednesday by NYU Langone Health marks the longest a pig kidney has functioned in a person, albeit a deceased one \u2013 and it's not over. Researchers are set to track the kidney's performance for a second month.<\/p>\n<p>\"Is this organ really going to work like a human organ? So far it's looking like it is,\" NYU Langone's transplant institute director Dr Robert Montgomery told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>\"It looks even better than a human kidney,\" Montgomery said on 14 July as he replaced a deceased man's own kidneys with a single kidney from a genetically modified pig - and watched it immediately start producing urine.<\/p>\n<h2>Shortage of organs<\/h2><p>The possibility that pig kidneys might one day help ease a dire shortage of transplantable organs persuaded the family of Maurice \"Mo\" Miller from upstate New York to donate his body for the experiment. He'd died suddenly at 57 with a previously undiagnosed brain cancer, ruling out routine organ donation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.681640625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//82//98//38//808x550_cmsv2_3ac98806-fb3e-5128-bd42-1eddcf841439-7829838.jpg/" alt=\"Shelby Lum/AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/98\/38\/384x262_cmsv2_3ac98806-fb3e-5128-bd42-1eddcf841439-7829838.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/98\/38\/640x436_cmsv2_3ac98806-fb3e-5128-bd42-1eddcf841439-7829838.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/98\/38\/750x511_cmsv2_3ac98806-fb3e-5128-bd42-1eddcf841439-7829838.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/98\/38\/828x564_cmsv2_3ac98806-fb3e-5128-bd42-1eddcf841439-7829838.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/98\/38\/1080x736_cmsv2_3ac98806-fb3e-5128-bd42-1eddcf841439-7829838.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/98\/38\/1200x818_cmsv2_3ac98806-fb3e-5128-bd42-1eddcf841439-7829838.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/98\/38\/1920x1309_cmsv2_3ac98806-fb3e-5128-bd42-1eddcf841439-7829838.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Surgeons at NYU Langone Health prepare to transplant a pig's kidney into a brain-dead man in New York on July 14, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Shelby Lum/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"I struggled with it,\" his sister, Mary Miller-Duffy, told the AP about her decision. But he liked helping others and \"I think this is what my brother would want. So I offered my brother to them.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"He's going to be in the medical books, and he will live on forever,\" she added.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts at animal-to-human transplants, or xenotransplantation, have failed for decades as people's immune systems attacked the foreign tissue. Now researchers are using pigs genetically modified so their organs better match human bodies.<\/p>\n<h2>Xenotransplantation<\/h2><p>Last year with special permission from regulators, the University of Maryland surgeons transplanted a gene-edited pig heart into a dying man who was out of other options. He survived only two months before the organ failed for reasons that aren't fully understood but that offer lessons for future attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Next, rather than last-ditch efforts, the Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to allow some small but rigorous studies of pig heart or kidney transplants in volunteer patients.<\/p>\n<p>The NYU experiment is one of a string of developments aimed at speeding the start of such clinical trials. Also Wednesday, the University of Alabama at Birmingham reported another important success - a pair of pig kidneys worked normally inside another donated body for seven days.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7766188,7543648,7454562\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2023//04//19//spain-sees-the-worlds-first-lung-transplantation-performed-entirely-by-robot/">Spain sees the world's first lung transplant performed entirely by robot<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2023//03//10//this-couple-lost-their-child-during-delivery-but-decided-to-donate-his-heart-valves/">This couple lost their child during delivery but decided to donate his heart valves<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2023//07//20//geneva-patient-becomes-first-to-be-cured-of-hiv-after-normal-stem-cell-transplant/">/u2018Geneva patient\u2019 becomes first to be cured of HIV after \u2018normal\u2019 stem cell transplant<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Kidneys don't just make urine - they provide a wide range of jobs in the body. In the journal JAMA Surgery, UAB transplant surgeon Dr Jayme Locke reported lab tests documenting the gene-modified pig organs' performance. She said the weeklong experiment demonstrates they can \"provide life-sustaining kidney function\".<\/p>\n<p>These kinds of experiments are critical to answer remaining questions \"in a setting where we're not putting someone's life in jeopardy,\" said Montgomery, the NYU kidney transplant surgeon who also received his own heart transplant - and is acutely aware of the need for a new source of organs.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100,000 patients are on the nation's transplant list in the US and thousands die each year waiting.<\/p>\n<h2>100,000 patients are on America's transplant waiting list<\/h2><p>Maryland's Dr Muhammad Mohiuddin cautioned that it was not clear how closely a deceased body will mimic a live patient's reactions to a pig organ. But he said the research educated the public about xenotransplantation so \"people will not be shocked\" when it's time to try again in the living.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, NYU and a team at the University of Alabama at Birmingham had tested pig kidney transplants in deceased recipients for just two or three days. An NYU team also had transplanted pig hearts into donated bodies for three days of intense testing.<\/p>\n<p>But how do pig organs react to a more common human immune attack that takes about a month to form? Only longer testing might tell.<\/p>\n<p>The surgery itself isn't that different from thousands he's performed \"but somewhere in the back of your mind is the enormity of what you're doing ... recognising that this could have a huge impact on the future of transplantation,\" Montgomery said.<\/p>\n<p>The operation took careful timing. Early that morning Drs Adam Griesemer and Jeffrey Stern flew hundreds of miles to a facility where Virginia-based Revivicor Inc. houses genetically modified pigs - and retrieved kidneys lacking a gene that would trigger immediate destruction by the human immune system.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5947265625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//82//98//38//808x481_cmsv2_62b8b460-8fb4-5cd8-8d47-2a542c3a177a-7829838.jpg/" alt=\"Steve Wood/The University of Alabama at Birmingham\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/98\/38\/384x228_cmsv2_62b8b460-8fb4-5cd8-8d47-2a542c3a177a-7829838.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/98\/38\/640x381_cmsv2_62b8b460-8fb4-5cd8-8d47-2a542c3a177a-7829838.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/98\/38\/750x446_cmsv2_62b8b460-8fb4-5cd8-8d47-2a542c3a177a-7829838.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/98\/38\/828x492_cmsv2_62b8b460-8fb4-5cd8-8d47-2a542c3a177a-7829838.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/98\/38\/1080x642_cmsv2_62b8b460-8fb4-5cd8-8d47-2a542c3a177a-7829838.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/98\/38\/1200x714_cmsv2_62b8b460-8fb4-5cd8-8d47-2a542c3a177a-7829838.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/98\/38\/1920x1142_cmsv2_62b8b460-8fb4-5cd8-8d47-2a542c3a177a-7829838.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">In this photo provided by the The University of Alabama at Birmingham, medical researchers prepare for the transplant of a pig's kidney into a donated body on Feb. 15, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Steve Wood/The University of Alabama at Birmingham<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As they raced back to NYU, Montgomery was removing both kidneys from the donated body so there'd be no doubt if the soon-to-arrive pig version was working. One pig kidney was transplanted, and the other was stored for comparison when the experiment ends.<\/p>\n<p>One other trick: Surgeons attached the pig's thymus to the transplanted kidney in hopes that the gland, which helps train immune cells, would increase human tolerance of the organ. Otherwise, the team is relying on standard immune-suppressing drugs used by today's transplant patients.<\/p>\n<p>\"You're always nervous,\" Griesemer said. To see it so rapidly kickstart, \"there was a lot of thrill and lot of sense of relief.\"<\/p>\n<p>How long should these experiments last? Alabama's Locke said that's not clear \u2013 and among the ethical questions are how long a family is comfortable or whether it's adding to their grief. Because maintaining a brain-dead person on a ventilator is difficult, it's also dependent on how stable the donated body is.<\/p>\n<p>In her own experiment, the donated body was stable enough that if the study wasn't required to end after a week, \"I think we could have gone much longer, which I think offers great hope,\" she said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1692321503,"publishedAt":1692369095,"updatedAt":1692374084,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2023\/08\/18\/pig-kidney-works-in-a-donated-body-for-over-a-month-a-step-toward-animal-human-transplants","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/98\/46\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_bfab44c0-3b91-57c1-a6e8-2a967c9d7a3d-7829846.jpg","altText":"Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of NYU Langone\u2019s transplant institute, prepares a pig kidney for transplant into a brain-dead man in New York on July 14, 2023. 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So which parts of Canada are affected by wildfires and what's causing the record blazes? \n\n\nWhat parts of Canada are affected by fires? \n\nThis summer, fires in Canada have charred millions of hectares and caused air pollution that crept into the US and, in some cases, even reached Europe. \n\nWildfires are common in Canada 's western provinces, but this year the eastern provinces of Nova Scotia, Quebec and parts of Ontario have also reeled from out-of-control blazes. \n\n\nThis week, the focus returned to the west, as wildfires burned about 16 km northwest of Yellowknife, the capital of the vast, sparsely populated Northwest Territories.\u00a0 \n\nThe fires may reach the city's outskirts by the weekend, the Territories' fire information officer, Mike Westwick, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on Thursday. \n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 1,054 active wildfires in Canada , including 230 in the Northwest Territories and 669 deemed out of control, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center. \n\nThere have been 5,738 such fires so far this year, which have burned 13.7 million hectares. At least four firefighters have died in Canada. \n\nThe previous record wildfire season was in 1989, when 7.6 million hectares were torched. \n\nThis year's fires started in late April in the western provinces of British Columbia and Alberta, displacing more than 30,000 people at their peak, and temporarily shutting down oil and gas production. \n\nWhat is happening in Yellowknife? \n\nYellowknife residents have until noon on Friday to evacuate under an order issued on Wednesday. The Northwest Territories, with a population of just 46,000 people, have limited infrastructure, and there is only one road out of the city to Alberta to the south. \n\nThousands of residents have already fled smaller communities, and Enterprise, a hamlet near the Alberta border, was nearly destroyed by a blaze on Sunday.\u00a0 \n\nIn a social media post, the Northwest Territories' fire service said a wildfire that had been threatening Hay River, a community of some 3,000 further south on Great Slave Lake, had stalled overnight. \n\nDiamond producer De Beers said in a statement that its Gahcho Kue mine, some 280 km northeast of Yellowknife, continued to operate, although some employees from surrounding communities had evacuated. \n\nIn May 2016, a huge fire destroyed 10 per cent of structures in the northern energy-producing Alberta city of Fort McMurray, forcing the evacuation of 90,000 residents and shutting in more than a million barrels per day of oil output. \n\nIn June 2021, 90 per cent of the structures in the British Columbia village of Lytton burned down. \n\nHow are Canada's fires affecting air quality?\u00a0 \n\nSmoke from this season's fires has made the air unhealthy to breathe across Canada and swaths of the United States, prompting warnings and recommendations that people limit their time outside or wear masks. \n\nIn this week's fires, the Canadian government's air quality health index put Yellowknife and Fort Smith at \"very high risk\" and Winnipeg, Manitoba's capital 1,700 km to the southeast, at \"high risk.\" \n\nEarlier this fire season, authorities issued air quality warnings for Canada's capital Ottawa and financial capital Toronto. In the US, air quality alerts were issued for sections of the Midwest, the East Coast and the South, including New York, Washington and Chicago. \n\nWhat is the outlook for Canada's fires?\u00a0 \n\nMost recent government projections indicate the potential for higher-than-normal fire activity will persist across much of Canada in August and September. \n\nNext month, the potential area at extreme risk is expected to become a bit smaller, covering southern British Columbia, the Prairies, part of the Northwest Territories and western Ontario, a government official said.\u00a0 \n\nIn much of that area, the number of new fires will taper off as autumn arrives. Large existing fires are expected to continue burning or smouldering, and new problematic fires can occur anywhere, the official said. \n\nWhat is causing Canada's fires? \n\nDrought has been a contributing factor to the number and intensity of this year's fires , officials say, with high temperatures exacerbating the situation. Much of Canada has seen abnormally dry - or worse - conditions. \n\nAtlantic Canada received low snowfall this winter, followed by an exceptionally dry spring. \n\nMost of the wildfires are believed to have been accidentally caused by human activity. \n\nIs climate change to blame for Canada's fires? \n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in June attributed the increase in the number of wildfires to climate change . Ellen Whitman, a research scientist with the Canadian Forest Service, said it is difficult to determine the impact of climate change on a single fire season. \n\nFor coastal regions, climate change is expected to bring more rain, which should reduce the fire risk, but a warmer atmosphere is more efficient at pulling moisture out of soils, a factor that increases fire risk. \n\nWidespread spring fires across the whole of Canada are also unusual, and research shows fire seasons across North America are getting longer. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The entire capital city of Canada\u2019s Northwest Territories was evacuated on Thursday as fire crews battled to keep a wildfire under control.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20,000 people in Yellowknife were ordered to leave as blazes inched closer to\u00a0the northern Canadian city.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the fire could reach the outskirts by Saturday if there is no rain.<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest chapter in the country's worst fire season ever. So which parts of Canada are affected by wildfires and what's causing the record blazes? <\/p>\n<h2>What parts of Canada are affected by fires?<\/h2><p>This summer, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//06//08//canada-travel-warning-everything-you-need-to-know-about-travelling-during-wildfires/">fires in Canada<\/strong><\/a> have charred millions of hectares and caused air pollution that crept into the US and, in some cases, even reached Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Wildfires are common in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//12//canada-small-lake-near-toronto-hailed-ground-zero-of-the-anthropocene-era/">Canada's western provinces, but this year the eastern provinces of Nova Scotia, Quebec and parts of Ontario have also reeled from out-of-control blazes. <\/p>\n<p>This week, the focus returned to the west, as <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//06//08//canada-fires-millions-breathing-hazardous-air-as-smoke-spreads-south-into-us/">wildfires burned about 16 km northwest of Yellowknife, the capital of the vast, sparsely populated Northwest Territories.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//06//27//smoke-from-canadas-wildfires-has-reached-europe-will-it-affect-air-quality/">fires may reach the city's outskirts by the weekend, the Territories' fire information officer, Mike Westwick, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on Thursday.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7828484,7823880\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//17//recipe-for-disaster-10-eu-countries-cut-firefighter-jobs-despite-worsening-climate-crisis/">/u2018Recipe for disaster\u2019: 10 EU countries cut firefighter jobs despite worsening climate crisis <\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//08//15//holidaymakers-warned-to-stay-extremely-vigilant-as-wildfires-in-france-force-thousands-to-/">Holidaymakers warned to stay \u2018extremely vigilant\u2019 as wildfires in France force thousands to evacuate<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As of Wednesday, there were 1,054 active <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//11//storms-cause-record-breaking-wildfires-in-canada-as-british-columbia-burns/">wildfires in Canada<\/strong><\/a>, including 230 in the Northwest Territories and 669 deemed out of control, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center.<\/p>\n<p>There have been 5,738 such fires so far this year, which have burned 13.7 million hectares. At least four firefighters have died in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The previous record wildfire season was in 1989, when 7.6 million hectares were torched.<\/p>\n<p>This year's fires started in late April in the western provinces of British Columbia and Alberta, displacing more than 30,000 people at their peak, and temporarily shutting down <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//08//01//tax-the-rich-canada-imposes-new-levy-on-luxury-cars-yachts-and-private-jets/">oil and gas<\/a> production.<\/p>\n<h2>What is happening in Yellowknife?<\/h2><p>Yellowknife residents have until noon on Friday to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//25//north-africa-heatwave-wildfires-kill-dozens-and-force-over-1500-people-to-evacuate/">evacuate under an order issued on Wednesday. The Northwest Territories, with a population of just 46,000 people, have limited infrastructure, and there is only one road out of the city to Alberta to the south.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of residents have already fled smaller communities, and Enterprise, a hamlet near the Alberta border, was nearly destroyed by a blaze on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a social media post, the Northwest Territories' fire service said a wildfire that had been threatening Hay River, a community of some 3,000 further south on Great Slave Lake, had stalled overnight.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//83//06//04//808x454_cmsv2_2f9dc95e-2701-51d6-9489-8d15f4692f7a-7830604.jpg/" alt=\"REUTERS/Pat Kane\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/06\/04\/384x216_cmsv2_2f9dc95e-2701-51d6-9489-8d15f4692f7a-7830604.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/06\/04\/640x360_cmsv2_2f9dc95e-2701-51d6-9489-8d15f4692f7a-7830604.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/06\/04\/750x422_cmsv2_2f9dc95e-2701-51d6-9489-8d15f4692f7a-7830604.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/06\/04\/828x466_cmsv2_2f9dc95e-2701-51d6-9489-8d15f4692f7a-7830604.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/06\/04\/1080x608_cmsv2_2f9dc95e-2701-51d6-9489-8d15f4692f7a-7830604.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/06\/04\/1200x675_cmsv2_2f9dc95e-2701-51d6-9489-8d15f4692f7a-7830604.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/06\/04\/1920x1080_cmsv2_2f9dc95e-2701-51d6-9489-8d15f4692f7a-7830604.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Yellowknife residents leave the city on Highway 3, the only highway in or out of the community, 16 August 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">REUTERS/Pat Kane<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Diamond producer De Beers said in a statement that its Gahcho Kue mine, some 280 km northeast of Yellowknife, continued to operate, although some employees from surrounding communities had evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2016, a huge <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//16//dogs-with-paws-burnt-down-to-the-bone-rescued-from-the-ashes-of-hawaiis-wildfires/">fire destroyed 10 per cent of structures in the northern energy-producing Alberta city of Fort McMurray, forcing the evacuation of 90,000 residents and shutting in more than a million barrels per day of oil output.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2021, 90 per cent of the structures in the British Columbia village of Lytton burned down.<\/p>\n<h2>How are Canada's fires affecting air quality?<\/h2><p>Smoke from this season's fires has made the air <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//03//09//just-0001-of-earths-population-enjoy-safe-levels-of-air-pollution-study-shows/">unhealthy to breathe across Canada and swaths of the United States, prompting warnings and recommendations that people limit their time outside or wear masks.<\/p>\n<p>In this week's fires, the Canadian government's <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//04//17//low-sperm-count-miscarriages-and-dementia-how-car-fumes-cause-health-problems-throughout-l/">air quality<\/strong><\/a> health index put Yellowknife and Fort Smith at \"very high risk\" and Winnipeg, Manitoba's capital 1,700 km to the southeast, at \"high risk.\"<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this fire season, authorities issued <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//04//24//air-pollution-is-killing-1200-children-and-teenagers-in-europe-each-year-eea-warns/">air quality<\/strong><\/a> warnings for Canada's capital Ottawa and financial capital Toronto. In the US, air quality alerts were issued for sections of the Midwest, the East Coast and the South, including New York, Washington and Chicago.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//83//06//04//808x454_cmsv2_0a24f31e-ebbc-57ea-ab4f-2df1732564a3-7830604.jpg/" alt=\"BC Wildfire Service/Handout via REUTERS\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/06\/04\/384x216_cmsv2_0a24f31e-ebbc-57ea-ab4f-2df1732564a3-7830604.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/06\/04\/640x360_cmsv2_0a24f31e-ebbc-57ea-ab4f-2df1732564a3-7830604.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/06\/04\/750x422_cmsv2_0a24f31e-ebbc-57ea-ab4f-2df1732564a3-7830604.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/06\/04\/828x466_cmsv2_0a24f31e-ebbc-57ea-ab4f-2df1732564a3-7830604.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/06\/04\/1080x608_cmsv2_0a24f31e-ebbc-57ea-ab4f-2df1732564a3-7830604.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/06\/04\/1200x675_cmsv2_0a24f31e-ebbc-57ea-ab4f-2df1732564a3-7830604.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/06\/04\/1920x1080_cmsv2_0a24f31e-ebbc-57ea-ab4f-2df1732564a3-7830604.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Smoke rises from the Crater Creek wildfire near Keremeos, British Columbia, Canada 15 August 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">BC Wildfire Service/Handout via REUTERS<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>What is the outlook for Canada's fires?<\/h2><p>Most recent government projections indicate the potential for higher-than-normal <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//02//greek-wildfires-have-unleashed-the-same-co2-emissions-in-july-as-over-222000-cars-in-a-yea/">fire activity will persist across much of Canada in August and September.<\/p>\n<p>Next month, the potential area at extreme risk is expected to become a bit smaller, covering southern British Columbia, the Prairies, part of the Northwest Territories and western Ontario, a government official said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In much of that area, the number of new <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//01//what-are-the-health-effects-of-wildfires-and-how-can-i-protect-myself/">fires will taper off as autumn arrives. Large existing fires are expected to continue burning or smouldering, and new problematic fires can occur anywhere, the official said.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7821672\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//14//hawaii-wildfires-what-caused-the-deadly-blazes-and-is-climate-change-to-blame/">Hawaii wildfires: What caused the deadly blazes and is climate change to blame?<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>What is causing Canada's fires?<\/h2><p>Drought has been a contributing factor to the number and intensity of this year's <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//08//torrential-rain-flash-floods-and-raging-wildfires-europes-extreme-summer/">fires, officials say, with high temperatures exacerbating the situation. Much of Canada has seen abnormally dry - or worse - conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Atlantic Canada received low snowfall this winter, followed by an exceptionally dry spring.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//10//the-worst-disaster-ive-ever-seen-residents-dived-into-the-ocean-as-wildfires-ripped-throug/">wildfires are believed to have been accidentally caused by human activity.<\/p>\n<h2>Is climate change to blame for Canada's fires?<\/h2><p>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in June attributed the increase in the number of wildfires to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//10//06//polar-bears-lose-up-to-2kg-per-day-as-climate-crisis-bites/">climate change<\/strong><\/a>. Ellen Whitman, a research scientist with the Canadian Forest Service, said it is difficult to determine the impact of climate change on a single fire season.<\/p>\n<p>For coastal regions, climate change is expected to bring more rain, which should reduce the fire risk, but a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//02//16//canadas-iconic-canal-ice-rink-hasnt-frozen-this-year-whats-going-on/">warmer atmosphere is more efficient at pulling moisture out of soils, a factor that increases fire risk.<\/p>\n<p>Widespread spring fires across the whole of Canada are also unusual, and research shows fire seasons across North America are getting longer.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1692351059,"publishedAt":1692357347,"updatedAt":1692357356,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2023\/08\/18\/canadas-record-wildfire-season-whats-causing-the-blazes-and-when-will-it-end","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/06\/04\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_1717163c-6116-56af-aa6a-2a566e6f644f-7830604.jpg","altText":"Flames from the Donnie Creek wildfire burn along a ridge top north of Fort St. John, British Columbia, on 2 July 2023. 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He says the sirens would have caused further panic and driven residents towards the fire.","leadin":"Herman Andaya has faced fierce criticism for failing to activate disaster sirens during last week\u2019s wildfire response. He says the sirens would have caused further panic and driven residents towards the fire.","summary":"Herman Andaya has faced fierce criticism for failing to activate disaster sirens during last week\u2019s wildfire response. He says the sirens would have caused further panic and driven residents towards the fire.","url":"maui-emergency-management-director-resigns-citing-health-reasons-amid-fierce-criticism","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The head of the Maui Emergency Management Agency - who has faced fierce criticism for failing to activate disaster sirens during last week\u2019s wildfire response - has resigned, citing health reasons. \n\nDespite the backlash, Herman Andaya defended not sounding the alarms, saying residents may have panicked and moved to areas where the flames were raging. \n\n\u201cGiven the gravity of the crisis we are facing, my team and I will be placing someone in this key position as quickly as possible and I look forward to making that announcement soon,\u201d the Mayor of Maui County Richard Bissen said in the statement. \n\n\nHawaii has what it touts as the largest system of outdoor alert sirens in the world.\u00a0The system was created after a 1946 tsunami that killed more than 150 people, and its website says they may be used to alert for fires. \n\n\nHawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez said that an outside organisation will conduct \u201can impartial, independent\u201d review into the government\u2019s response to the fires. \n\n\u201cWe intend to look at this critical incident to facilitate any necessary corrective action and to advance future emergency preparedness,\u201d Lopez said in a statement. \n\nShe said the investigation will likely take months.\u00a0 \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The head of the Maui Emergency Management Agency - who has faced fierce criticism for failing to activate disaster sirens during last week\u2019s wildfire response - has resigned, citing health reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the backlash, Herman Andaya defended not sounding the alarms, saying residents may have panicked and moved to areas where the flames were raging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the gravity of the crisis we are facing, my team and I will be placing someone in this key position as quickly as possible and I look forward to making that announcement soon,\u201d the Mayor of Maui County Richard Bissen said in the statement. <\/p>\n<p>Hawaii has what it touts as the largest system of outdoor alert sirens in the world.\u00a0The system was created after a 1946 tsunami that killed more than 150 people, and its website says they may be used to alert for fires. <\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7826640,7825580\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//08//17//locals-beg-tourists-to-stay-away-from-maui-as-they-start-to-rebuild-after-devastating-wild/">Locals beg tourists to stay away from Maui as they start to rebuild after devastating wildfires<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//16//dogs-with-paws-burnt-down-to-the-bone-rescued-from-the-ashes-of-hawaiis-wildfires/">Maui wildfires: Animal rescue teams save pets from the ashes of Hawaii\u2019s fires<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez said that an outside organisation will conduct \u201can impartial, independent\u201d review into the government\u2019s response to the fires.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe intend to look at this critical incident to facilitate any necessary corrective action and to advance future emergency preparedness,\u201d Lopez said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>She said the investigation will likely take months.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1692336532,"publishedAt":1692346744,"updatedAt":1692347405,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/08\/18\/maui-emergency-management-director-resigns-citing-health-reasons-amid-fierce-criticism","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/00\/20\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_be2b21e8-ae99-5ea3-87fd-a791861458c2-7830020.jpg","altText":"In this image taken from video, Maui Emergency Management Agency Administrator Herman Andaya speaks during a news conference in Wailuku, Hawaii, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023.","caption":"In this image taken from video, Maui Emergency Management Agency Administrator Herman Andaya speaks during a news conference in Wailuku, Hawaii, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023.","captionCredit":"Mike Householder\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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Parton has recorded a 'Let It Be' cover with the help of two Beatles","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Dolly Parton to release 'Let It Be' featuring two Beatles members","titleListing2":"Dolly Parton has recorded a 'Let It Be' cover with the help of two Beatles","leadin":"The upcoming 49th album for the country star has a tracklist to die for.","summary":"The upcoming 49th album for the country star has a tracklist to die for.","url":"dolly-parton-has-recorded-a-let-it-be-cover-with-the-help-of-two-beatles","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Does anyone do anything better than Dolly Parton? The \u20189 to 5\u2019 singer-songwriter, philanthropist and COVID-19 vaccine funder is now set to release a cover of the beloved Beatles track \u2018Let It Be\u2019. \n\nExcept she\u2019s not just recorded a cover of that song on her own. That\u2019s what mere mortals would do. Instead, Parton has enlisted not one but two Beatles to record the song with her. \n\nThat\u2019s right. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr (which Beatles members did you think it would be?) have joined forces with Parton to record a cover of their stunning single. That\u2019s not all though. Also featuring on the single is Peter Frampton and Mick Fleetwood, of\u2026 y\u2019know, Fleetwood Mac. \n\nIt\u2019s a pretty legendary line-up for a song. \u2018Let It Be\u2019 will be released on 18 August. \n\nThe song is just the latest single from Parton\u2019s 49th studio album. And you thought Taylor Swift had released a lot of music. \n\nThe forthcoming album \u2018Rockstar\u2019 is Parton\u2019s response to her 2022 nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Ever modest, Parton said she was a country star at the time and couldn\u2019t accept the nomination. To \u201cearn\u201d her place, she\u2019s collected a host of her favourite musicians to record an album of covers and original songs. \n\nThe 30-song tracklist is a veritable who\u2019s-who of every name you could imagine having an impact on music over the past 60 years. \n\nAfter you\u2019ve looked past the double Beatle and Mick Fleetwood inclusion, there\u2019s a cover of The Police\u2019s \u2018Every Breath You Take\u2019 featuring Sting. Journey\u2019s \u2018Open Arms\u2019 features the band\u2019s lead singer Steve Perry. Joan Jett has lent her talents for a cover of \u2018I Hate Myself For Loving You\u2019, while Miley Cyrus is helping out on a cover of \u2018Wrecking Ball\u2019. \n\nIt goes on. Debby Harry is back covering Blondie\u2019s \u2018Heart of Glass\u2019. Elton John stretches his vocal chords on \u2018Don\u2019t Let The Sun Go Down on Me\u2019. While Lynyrd Skynyrd close out the album featuring on their track \u2018Free Bird\u2019. \n\nAnd that\u2019s not all! Parton has brought on legends to help out with songs they didn\u2019t write themselves. For a cover of The Rolling Stones\u2019 \u2018(I Can\u2019t Get No) Satisfaction\u2019, she\u2019s enlisted P!nk. Lizzo is singing on a cover of the Led Zeppelin classic \u2018Stairway to Heaven\u2019. And Duran Duran lead singer Simon Le Bon features on \u2018My Blue Tears\u2019, an original track by Parton. \n\n\u201cI am very honoured and privileged to have worked with some of the greatest iconic singers and musicians of all time and to be able to sing all the iconic songs throughout the album was a joy beyond measure. I hope everybody enjoys the album as much as I\u2019ve enjoyed putting it together!\u201d Parton said of the album. \n\n\u2018Rockstar\u2019 is released on 17 November 2023. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Does anyone do anything better than Dolly Parton? The \u20189 to 5\u2019 singer-songwriter, philanthropist and COVID-19 vaccine funder is now set to release a cover of the beloved Beatles track \u2018Let It Be\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Except she\u2019s not just recorded a cover of that song on her own. That\u2019s what mere mortals would do. Instead, Parton has enlisted not one but two Beatles to record the song with her.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr (which Beatles members did you think it would be?) have joined forces with Parton to record a cover of their stunning single. That\u2019s not all though. Also featuring on the single is Peter Frampton and Mick Fleetwood, of\u2026 y\u2019know, Fleetwood Mac.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a pretty legendary line-up for a song. \u2018Let It Be\u2019 will be released on 18 August.<\/p>\n<p>The song is just the latest single from Parton\u2019s 49th studio album. And you thought Taylor Swift had released a lot of music.<\/p>\n<p>The forthcoming album \u2018Rockstar\u2019 is Parton\u2019s response to her 2022 nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Ever modest, Parton said she was a country star at the time and couldn\u2019t accept the nomination. To \u201cearn\u201d her place, she\u2019s collected a host of her favourite musicians to record an album of covers and original songs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//82//91//24//808x539_cmsv2_4eced678-f327-5789-93cd-77b6601aafd8-7829124.jpg/" alt=\"Wade Payne/Wade Payne/Invision/AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/91\/24\/384x256_cmsv2_4eced678-f327-5789-93cd-77b6601aafd8-7829124.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/91\/24\/640x427_cmsv2_4eced678-f327-5789-93cd-77b6601aafd8-7829124.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/91\/24\/750x500_cmsv2_4eced678-f327-5789-93cd-77b6601aafd8-7829124.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/91\/24\/828x552_cmsv2_4eced678-f327-5789-93cd-77b6601aafd8-7829124.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/91\/24\/1080x720_cmsv2_4eced678-f327-5789-93cd-77b6601aafd8-7829124.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/91\/24\/1200x800_cmsv2_4eced678-f327-5789-93cd-77b6601aafd8-7829124.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/91\/24\/1920x1280_cmsv2_4eced678-f327-5789-93cd-77b6601aafd8-7829124.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Dolly Parton is seen performing in concert at the Ryman Auditorium on Friday, July 31, 2015 in Nashville, Tenn<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Wade Payne/Wade Payne/Invision/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The 30-song tracklist is a veritable who\u2019s-who of every name you could imagine having an impact on music over the past 60 years.<\/p>\n<p>After you\u2019ve looked past the double Beatle and Mick Fleetwood inclusion, there\u2019s a cover of The Police\u2019s \u2018Every Breath You Take\u2019 featuring Sting. Journey\u2019s \u2018Open Arms\u2019 features the band\u2019s lead singer Steve Perry. Joan Jett has lent her talents for a cover of \u2018I Hate Myself For Loving You\u2019, while Miley Cyrus is helping out on a cover of \u2018Wrecking Ball\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>It goes on. Debby Harry is back covering Blondie\u2019s \u2018Heart of Glass\u2019. Elton John stretches his vocal chords on \u2018Don\u2019t Let The Sun Go Down on Me\u2019. While Lynyrd Skynyrd close out the album featuring on their track \u2018Free Bird\u2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My new \u2018Rockstar\u2019 single, \u201cLet It Be\u201d is dropping this Friday! This song is really special to me because I\u2019m joined by <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//PaulMcCartney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\%22>@PaulMcCartney<\/a> who wrote the song, along with <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//ringostarrmusic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\%22>@ringostarrmusic<\/a>, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//peterframpton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\%22>@peterframpton<\/a> and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//MickFleetwood?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\%22>@mickfleetwood<\/a>. Make sure to sign-up for my newsletter to be the first to hear\u2026 <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////t.co//teoBqKp0GH/">pic.twitter.com//teoBqKp0GH— Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//DollyParton//status//1690740480282066944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\%22>August 13, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////platform.twitter.com//widgets.js/" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>And that\u2019s not all! Parton has brought on legends to help out with songs they didn\u2019t write themselves. For a cover of The Rolling Stones\u2019 \u2018(I Can\u2019t Get No) Satisfaction\u2019, she\u2019s enlisted P!nk. Lizzo is singing on a cover of the Led Zeppelin classic \u2018Stairway to Heaven\u2019. And Duran Duran lead singer Simon Le Bon features on \u2018My Blue Tears\u2019, an original track by Parton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very honoured and privileged to have worked with some of the greatest iconic singers and musicians of all time and to be able to sing all the iconic songs throughout the album was a joy beyond measure. I hope everybody enjoys the album as much as I\u2019ve enjoyed putting it together!\u201d Parton said of the album.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Rockstar\u2019 is released on 17 November 2023.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1692280603,"publishedAt":1692282453,"updatedAt":1692282455,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2023\/08\/17\/dolly-parton-has-recorded-a-let-it-be-cover-with-the-help-of-two-beatles","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/91\/24\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_8d750604-1cab-5c66-8ecc-224f76c8f6e5-7829124.jpg","altText":"Dolly Parton performs during an event celebrating the Kansas statewide expansion of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Monday, Aug. 14, 2023","caption":"Dolly Parton performs during an event celebrating the Kansas statewide expansion of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Monday, Aug. 14, 2023","captionCredit":"Charlie Riedel\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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There were 1,067 active wildfires burning across Canada as of Wednesday.","summary":"More than 200 wildfires have already burned a widespread area of the Northwest Territories. There were 1,067 active wildfires burning across Canada as of Wednesday.","url":"20000-canadians-ordered-to-evacuate-yellowknife-due-to-wildfires","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Air evacuations were to begin Thursday to move residents in the capital of Canada's Northwest Territories out of the path of wildfires that neared the city of 20,000 people. \n\nPeople in the four areas of Yellowknife at highest risk should leave as soon as possible, and residents in other areas have until noon Friday to leave, the Northwest Territories government said.\u00a0 \n\nOnly those who don\u2019t have the option of leaving by road should register for the flights out, officials added. People who are immunocompromised or have a condition that puts them at higher risk were encouraged to sign up. \n\n\u201cI want to be clear that the city is not in immediate danger and there\u2019s a safe window for residents to leave the city by road and by air,\u201d Shane Thompson, a government minister for the Territories, said in a news conference. \n\nThe fire was burning about 17 kilometres outside the city. The evacuation order issued on Wednesday night applies to the city of Yellowknife and the neighbouring First Nations communities of Ndilo and Dettah. \n\n\u201cWithout rain, it is possible it will reach the city outskirts by the weekend,\" Thompson said. \n\nIf smoke limits visibility, those leaving Yellowknife by highway will be escorted through the active fire zone. \n\nMore than 200 wildfires have already burned a widespread area of the Northwest Territories. There were 1,067 active wildfires burning across Canada as of Wednesday. \n\nEight communities totalling nearly 6,800 people, or 15% of the Northwest Territories' population, have already evacuated, Mike Westwick, the region's fire information officer, said earlier in the day. \n\nMany highways have been closed, and the territory has had what officials called the largest airlift in its history. Canadian Forces personnel are helping firefighters and have flown evacuees out on Hercules aircraft. \n\nCanada has seen a record number of wildfires this year. More than 21,000 square kilometres have burned. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Air evacuations were to begin Thursday to move residents in the capital of Canada's Northwest Territories out of the path of wildfires that neared the city of 20,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>People in the four areas of Yellowknife at highest risk should leave as soon as possible, and residents in other areas have until noon Friday to leave, the Northwest Territories government said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Only those who don\u2019t have the option of leaving by road should register for the flights out, officials added. People who are immunocompromised or have a condition that puts them at higher risk were encouraged to sign up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be clear that the city is not in immediate danger and there\u2019s a safe window for residents to leave the city by road and by air,\u201d Shane Thompson, a government minister for the Territories, said in a news conference.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//82//76//28//808x542_cmsv2_4861846d-2811-543c-97a1-8909bef07516-7827628.jpg/" alt=\"JASON FRANSON/AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/76\/28\/384x257_cmsv2_4861846d-2811-543c-97a1-8909bef07516-7827628.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/76\/28\/640x429_cmsv2_4861846d-2811-543c-97a1-8909bef07516-7827628.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/76\/28\/750x502_cmsv2_4861846d-2811-543c-97a1-8909bef07516-7827628.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/76\/28\/828x555_cmsv2_4861846d-2811-543c-97a1-8909bef07516-7827628.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/76\/28\/1080x724_cmsv2_4861846d-2811-543c-97a1-8909bef07516-7827628.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/76\/28\/1200x804_cmsv2_4861846d-2811-543c-97a1-8909bef07516-7827628.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/76\/28\/1920x1286_cmsv2_4861846d-2811-543c-97a1-8909bef07516-7827628.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Hay River, N.W.T. fire evacuee Tanisha Edison, who is four days away from having a baby, and her daughter Delilah Betsaka.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">JASON FRANSON/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The fire was burning about 17 kilometres outside the city. The evacuation order issued on Wednesday night applies to the city of Yellowknife and the neighbouring First Nations communities of Ndilo and Dettah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout rain, it is possible it will reach the city outskirts by the weekend,\" Thompson said.<\/p>\n<p>If smoke limits visibility, those leaving Yellowknife by highway will be escorted through the active fire zone.<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 wildfires have already burned a widespread area of the Northwest Territories. There were 1,067 active wildfires burning across Canada as of Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7826640,7826482\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//08//17//locals-beg-tourists-to-stay-away-from-maui-as-they-start-to-rebuild-after-devastating-wild/">Locals beg tourists to stay away from Maui as they start to rebuild after devastating wildfires<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//08//16//wildfires-rage-on-the-spanish-holiday-island-of-tenerife/">'Out of control' wildfires rage in Tenerife: Map of affected areas, evacuations and how to stay safe<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Eight communities totalling nearly 6,800 people, or 15% of the Northwest Territories' population, have already evacuated, Mike Westwick, the region's fire information officer, said earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Many highways have been closed, and the territory has had what officials called the largest airlift in its history. Canadian Forces personnel are helping firefighters and have flown evacuees out on Hercules aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Canada has seen a record number of wildfires this year. More than 21,000 square kilometres have burned.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1692252212,"publishedAt":1692255498,"updatedAt":1692260502,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/08\/17\/20000-canadians-ordered-to-evacuate-yellowknife-due-to-wildfires","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/76\/32\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_1ce9099d-9991-511c-b804-69d4625b5306-7827632.jpg","altText":"Wildfire smoke fills the air at Boundary Creek, Northwest Territories about 15 miles (25km) east of Yellowknife, Tuesday Aug. 15 2023.","caption":"Wildfire smoke fills the air at Boundary Creek, Northwest Territories about 15 miles (25km) east of Yellowknife, Tuesday Aug. 15 2023.","captionCredit":"Bill 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beg tourists to stay away from Maui as they start to rebuild after devastating wildfires","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Should tourists stay away from Maui after deadly wildfires?","titleListing2":"","leadin":"A company that held a charity snorkeling tour near burned out Lahaina later has since issued an apology.","summary":"A company that held a charity snorkeling tour near burned out Lahaina later has since issued an apology.","url":"locals-beg-tourists-to-stay-away-from-maui-as-they-start-to-rebuild-after-devastating-wild","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The incongruous sight of tourists enjoying Maui's tropical beaches while search-and-rescue teams trawl building ruins for victims has outraged some residents. \n\nLast week, Maui saw the deadliest US wildfire in more than a century. The death toll currently stands at 106 but is expected to rise. More than 2,000 buildings were flattened by the fires, which were fanned by strong winds. \n\nThe cause of the fires is still being investigated. Meanwhile a debate has started about whether tourism should be continuing while a ravaged community picks up the pieces. \n\n'Our community needs time to heal, grieve, and restore' \n\nMaui residents have vented on social media , posting video of tourists enjoying holiday activities like snorkeling while the death toll in the historic resort town of Lahaina passes 106 and is rising every day. \n\n\"Our community needs time to heal, grieve, and restore,\" Hawaiian actor Jason Momoa said on Instagram, urging tourists to cancel their trips. \n\nWhereas authorities and businesses have welcomed the trickle of travelelrs, saying it will lessen the blow to the island's economy which relies heavily on tourism . The industry is Maui's \"economic engine,\" generating 80% of its wealth, according to the island's economic development board. \n\nAs Maui embarks on a long, painful recovery from the fires, officials are wrestling with how to balance residents' immediate needs for housing and resources against the island's long-term financial health. \n\nReminiscent of COVID-19 lockdowns \n\nHawaii Governor Josh Green recalled at a weekend press conference how the COVID-19 pandemic similarly forced the state to weigh the risks of allowing tourists in during a public health crisis against the harm Hawaii's economy would suffer from barring them. \n\n\"All of our people will need to survive, and we can't afford to have no jobs or no future for our children,\" Green said. \"When you restrict any travel to a region, you really devastate its own local residents in many ways more than anyone else.\" \n\nAre flights still running to Hawaii? \n\nTourism has taken a hit in the week since the wildfire devastated Lahaina, a popular vacation destination that was also home to historic sites significant to Hawaiian residents. \n\nThe number of airline passengers to Maui on Sunday was down nearly 81% compared to the same time last year, according to the Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism. \n\nIn 2022, 2.9 million tourists visited Maui, which has a year-round population of 165,000, according to the latest numbers from the US Census Bureau. The state tourism department reported in February that visitors spent $5.69 billion on Maui in 2022. \n\nThe Hawaii Tourism Authority is asking visitors to avoid all non-essential travel to West Maui, the part of the island affected by the fires, so resources can be used to help locals recover. \n\n\u201cIt is likely that a big chunk of the people who are affected, losing family members, losing family homes, it's likely a lot of them were employed by the visitor industry,\" tourism authority spokesperson Ilihia Gionson said. \n\nAre hotels in West Maui still open? \n\nHotels in West Maui have temporarily stopped accepting bookings. Many are housing their employees and preparing to house evacuees and first-responders working on disaster recovery, according to the tourism authority. \n\nThe agency urged visitors to areas of Maui that did not burn - such as Kahului, Wailuku, Kihei, Wailea and Makena - to contact their accommodation and ensure they could still be hosted. \n\n\"Maui is not closed,\" Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen said at the weekend press conference alongside the governor. \"Many of our residents make their living off of tourism.\" \n\nReached by phone on Tuesday, the Four Seasons Resort at Wailea Beach in South Maui said all hotel operations were running normally, but that it was encouraging tourists with August reservations to postpone their trips until the rest of the island had recovered more fully. \n\nOccupancy at the five-star hotel had plunged \"dramatically\" since the fire, a front desk operator said. \n\nHotel operator Hilton Worldwide Holdings, which has 23 hotels throughout Hawaii, said it was waiving cancellation penalties for those traveling to, from or through all islands of Hawaii until 31 August. \n\nJack Richards, CEO of Los Angeles-based travel company Pleasant Holidays, scrambled to evacuate more than 400 customers who were on Maui during the fires. Dead phone lines and lost internet connections hampered the efforts, he said. \n\nMost of the tourists were eventually relocated to other Hawaiian islands . Another 1,400 customers with August travel plans to Maui need to be rebooked, he said. \n\nTour operators who continued to offer services in or around West Maui after the fires faced a flood of criticism. \n\nA company that held a charity snorkeling tour on Friday 11 miles (18 km) from Lahaina later issued an apology and said it was suspending operations for the time being. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The incongruous sight of tourists enjoying Maui's tropical beaches while search-and-rescue teams trawl building ruins for victims has outraged some residents.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Maui saw the deadliest US wildfire in more than a century. The death toll currently stands at 106 but is expected to rise. More than 2,000 buildings were flattened by the fires, which were fanned by strong winds.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fires is still being investigated. Meanwhile a debate has started about whether tourism should be continuing while a ravaged community picks up the pieces.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//82//16//72//808x454_cmsv2_b52aa80f-19f6-55ee-9259-df44ceabf373-7821672.jpg/" alt=\"REUTERS/MIKE Blake/File\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/16\/72\/384x216_cmsv2_b52aa80f-19f6-55ee-9259-df44ceabf373-7821672.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/16\/72\/640x360_cmsv2_b52aa80f-19f6-55ee-9259-df44ceabf373-7821672.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/16\/72\/750x422_cmsv2_b52aa80f-19f6-55ee-9259-df44ceabf373-7821672.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/16\/72\/828x466_cmsv2_b52aa80f-19f6-55ee-9259-df44ceabf373-7821672.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/16\/72\/1080x608_cmsv2_b52aa80f-19f6-55ee-9259-df44ceabf373-7821672.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/16\/72\/1200x675_cmsv2_b52aa80f-19f6-55ee-9259-df44ceabf373-7821672.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/16\/72\/1920x1080_cmsv2_b52aa80f-19f6-55ee-9259-df44ceabf373-7821672.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Workers repair utility lines in the fire ravaged town of Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii, US, 15 August, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">REUTERS/MIKE Blake/File<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>'Our community needs time to heal, grieve, and restore'<\/h2><p>Maui residents have vented on <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2021//02//01//instagram-vs-reality-how-social-media-and-travel-are-intrinsically-linked/">social media<\/strong><\/a>, posting video of tourists enjoying holiday activities like snorkeling while the death toll in the historic resort town of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//14//hawaii-wildfires-what-caused-the-deadly-blazes-and-is-climate-change-to-blame/">Lahaina passes 106 and is rising every day.<\/p>\n<p>\"Our community needs time to heal, grieve, and restore,\" Hawaiian actor Jason Momoa said on Instagram, urging tourists to cancel their trips.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas authorities and businesses have welcomed the trickle of travelelrs, saying it will lessen the blow to the island's economy which <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//07//18//croatia-says-latest-figures-show-it-is-having-a-bumper-tourist-season/">relies heavily on tourism<\/strong><\/a>. The industry is Maui's \"economic engine,\" generating 80% of its wealth, according to the island's economic development board.<\/p>\n<p>As Maui embarks on a long, painful recovery from the fires, officials are wrestling with how to balance residents' immediate needs for housing and resources against the island's long-term financial health.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7821672,7637566\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//05//29//profiting-off-a-cultural-practice-hawaiians-go-to-court-over-concerns-about-artificial-wav/">'Profiting off a cultural practice': Hawaiians go to court over concerns about artificial wave pool<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//14//hawaii-wildfires-what-caused-the-deadly-blazes-and-is-climate-change-to-blame/">Hawaii wildfires: What caused the deadly blazes and is climate change to blame?<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Reminiscent of COVID-19 lockdowns<\/h2><p>Hawaii Governor Josh Green recalled at a weekend press conference how the COVID-19 pandemic similarly forced the state to weigh the risks of allowing <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//07//17//badly-behaved-tourists-prompt-bali-to-consider-a-mountain-climbing-ban/">tourists in during a public health crisis against the harm Hawaii's economy would suffer from barring them.<\/p>\n<p>\"All of our people will need to survive, and we can't afford to have no jobs or no future for our children,\" Green said. \"When you restrict any travel to a region, you really devastate its own local residents in many ways more than anyone else.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//82//66//40//808x454_cmsv2_1e2108ba-47cc-5664-a573-175b1dc90cb3-7826640.jpg/" alt=\"REUTERS/Mike Blake\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/66\/40\/384x216_cmsv2_1e2108ba-47cc-5664-a573-175b1dc90cb3-7826640.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/66\/40\/640x360_cmsv2_1e2108ba-47cc-5664-a573-175b1dc90cb3-7826640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/66\/40\/750x422_cmsv2_1e2108ba-47cc-5664-a573-175b1dc90cb3-7826640.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/66\/40\/828x466_cmsv2_1e2108ba-47cc-5664-a573-175b1dc90cb3-7826640.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/66\/40\/1080x608_cmsv2_1e2108ba-47cc-5664-a573-175b1dc90cb3-7826640.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/66\/40\/1200x675_cmsv2_1e2108ba-47cc-5664-a573-175b1dc90cb3-7826640.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/66\/40\/1920x1080_cmsv2_1e2108ba-47cc-5664-a573-175b1dc90cb3-7826640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The fire ravaged town of Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii, U.S., August 15, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">REUTERS/Mike Blake<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Are flights still running to Hawaii?<\/h2><p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//08//07//vital-tourism-income-has-been-lost-due-to-mediterranean-summer-of-wildfires-and-extreme-he/">Tourism has taken a hit in the week since the wildfire devastated Lahaina, a popular vacation destination that was also home to historic sites significant to Hawaiian residents.<\/p>\n<p>The number of airline passengers to Maui on Sunday was down nearly 81% compared to the same time last year, according to the Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, 2.9 million <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//05//14//beat-the-crowds-heres-which-european-capitals-officially-have-the-most-and-least-tourists/">tourists visited Maui, which has a year-round population of 165,000, according to the latest numbers from the US Census Bureau. The state tourism department reported in February that visitors spent $5.69 billion on Maui in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawaii Tourism Authority is asking visitors to avoid all non-essential travel to West Maui, the part of the island affected by the fires, so resources can be used to help locals recover.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is likely that a big chunk of the people who are affected, losing family members, losing family homes, it's likely a lot of them were employed by the visitor industry,\" tourism authority spokesperson Ilihia Gionson said.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7511736,5984048\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2022//05//03//hawaiian-overtourism-residents-beg-tourists-to-stop-visiting-amid-post-pandemic-boom/">Hawaii overtourism: Residents beg tourists to stop visiting amid post-pandemic boom<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//05//05//hawaii-overtourism-new-visitor-fee-targets-tourists-visiting-delicate-eco-sites/">'The idea is not dead': Visitor fee to protect Hawaii's delicate ecosystems rejected by lawmakers<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Are hotels in West Maui still open?<\/h2><p>Hotels in West Maui have temporarily stopped accepting bookings. Many are housing their employees and preparing to house evacuees and first-responders working on disaster recovery, according to the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2022//11//26//beyond-ecotourism-these-european-holidays-could-help-save-nature/">tourism authority.<\/p>\n<p>The agency urged visitors to areas of Maui that did not burn - such as Kahului, Wailuku, Kihei, Wailea and Makena - to contact their accommodation and ensure they could still be hosted.<\/p>\n<p>\"Maui is not closed,\" Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen said at the weekend press conference alongside the governor. \"Many of our residents make their living off of tourism.\"<\/p>\n<p>Reached by phone on Tuesday, the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2021//10//31//four-seasons-milan-this-former-convent-reaches-heavenly-heights-of-luxury/">Four Seasons<\/strong><\/a> Resort at Wailea Beach in South Maui said all hotel operations were running normally, but that it was encouraging tourists with August reservations to postpone their trips until the rest of the island had recovered more fully.<\/p>\n<p>Occupancy at the five-star hotel had plunged \"dramatically\" since the fire, a front desk operator said.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6986848,6490964\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2022//03//23//these-7-eco-hotels-prove-that-sustainable-travel-can-still-be-luxurious/">From the Maldives to Hawaii: These are the 7 best eco-hotels in 2022<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//09//01//hawaii-closes-its-last-coal-power-plant-are-its-renewable-replacements-ready-for-the-switc/">Hawaii closes its last coal power plant: Are its renewable replacements ready for the switch?<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Hotel operator Hilton Worldwide Holdings, which has 23 <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//08//13//the-revolution-will-not-be-televised-inside-the-hotels-removing-tvs-from-their-rooms/">hotels throughout Hawaii, said it was waiving cancellation penalties for those traveling to, from or through all islands of Hawaii until 31 August.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Richards, CEO of Los Angeles-based travel company Pleasant Holidays, scrambled to evacuate more than 400 customers who were on Maui during the fires. Dead phone lines and lost internet connections hampered the efforts, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the tourists were eventually relocated to other Hawaiian <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//03//25//fancy-a-desert-island-getaway-these-are-the-best-indian-islands-to-get-away-from-it-all/">islands. Another 1,400 customers with August travel plans to Maui need to be rebooked, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Tour operators who continued to offer services in or around West Maui after the fires faced a flood of criticism.<\/p>\n<p>A company that held a charity snorkeling tour on Friday 11 miles (18 km) from Lahaina later issued an apology and said it was suspending operations for the time being.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1692194963,"publishedAt":1692244846,"updatedAt":1692244890,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2023\/08\/17\/locals-beg-tourists-to-stay-away-from-maui-as-they-start-to-rebuild-after-devastating-wild","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/66\/40\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_4f24f375-4d51-5378-acb5-45e08f2814e2-7826640.jpg","altText":"Local residents put up signs along the highway entering the fire ravaged town of Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii, US, 15 August, 2023.","caption":"Local residents put up signs 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Some emerged with marks of escape, but thousands remain lost.","summary":"As people fled the fires, pets did too. Some emerged with marks of escape, but thousands remain lost.","url":"dogs-with-paws-burnt-down-to-the-bone-rescued-from-the-ashes-of-hawaiis-wildfires","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A dog with its hind legs bandaged tightly from paw to hip whimpered in pain through a plastic medical cone, its chest rising and falling quickly in shallow breaths. \n\nThe animal is one of the pets and people bearing marks of their escape from the smoke and flames of Hawaii wildfires that claimed more than 100 lives and decimated a historic town. \n\n\u201cWe have seen animals come through our shelter that have severe, severe burns,\" says Katie Shannon, director of marketing and communications at Maui Humane Society. \u201cWe have seen dogs that have essentially had their paws all the way burnt down to the bone from running from the fire.\u201d \n\nThe deadliest US wildfire in more than 100 years has left hundreds of dogs, cats and other pets lost, injured or dead.\u00a0 \n\nAn estimated 3,000 animals from Lahaina remain missing, according to the Maui Humane Society, which is now trying to reunite pets with owners and treat the many animals that arrived at clinics wrapped in blankets covering wounds. \n\n\"We have had chickens, love birds, guinea pigs, rabbits , dogs, cats,\u201d Shannon says. \u201cWe even have a pig here.\u201d \n\nHawaii's rescued animals are being treated for burns \n\nFuelled by dry grass and propelled by strong winds from a passing hurricane, the fires raced as fast as 1.6 kilometres every minute in one area. People were forced to scramble and flee in harrowing escapes they later relayed to family members who waited in agony to learn of their fate. \n\nThe stories of the animals , though, were told by the damage on their bodies. \n\nA cat arrived with singed fur and spots of leg burns. A chicken needed both scorched claws wrapped with thick, blue medical tape. \n\nA clinic worker used surgical tweezers to delicately remove debris from a dog 's paws while another technician cradled the head, rubbed the neck with gentle thumb strokes and spoke calmly into the animal's ear. \n\nThey were the lucky ones. On a Maui street, a dog\u2019s charred body was found. \n\nRescue teams continue to search for animals amid the destruction \n\nAs the smoke clears and officials survey the scope of loss and destruction, animal welfare advocates are working with the Maui Police Department to enter the burn area in search of lost, injured or deceased animals. \n\n\u201cAs those areas continue to widen, we will be able to expand our scope of services,\u201d said Lisa Labrecque, CEO of the Maui Humane Society, at a Monday news conference. \n\nDozens of feeding stations stocked with food and water have been set to draw scared animals out of hiding so they can be tracked and transported to a shelter, where veterinary staffers treat both burn injuries and smoke inhalation cases. \n\nFound animals are checked for identification and scanned for a microchip so owners may be contacted. The Maui Humane Society has asked that deceased animals not be moved or destroyed so they can be cataloged and checked for identification. \n\n\"But this is only the beginning,\" Shannon says. \"People need to understand that we are in the midst of this. And, you know, there is a harsh reality to come.\" \n\n","htmlText":"<p>A dog with its hind legs bandaged tightly from paw to hip whimpered in pain through a plastic medical cone, its chest rising and falling quickly in shallow breaths.<\/p>\n<p>The animal is one of the pets and people bearing marks of their escape from the smoke and flames of Hawaii wildfires that claimed more than 100 lives and decimated a historic town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seen <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//02//28//how-facebook-posts-microchips-and-voicenotes-are-reuniting-pets-with-their-owners-in-turke/">animals come through our shelter that have severe, severe burns,\" says Katie Shannon, director of marketing and communications at Maui Humane Society. \u201cWe have seen dogs that have essentially had their paws all the way burnt down to the bone from running from the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deadliest US wildfire in more than 100 years has left hundreds of dogs, cats and other <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//03//15//this-shelter-is-taking-in-pets-abandoned-in-the-chaos-of-the-ukrainian-war/">pets lost, injured or dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 3,000 animals from Lahaina remain missing, according to the Maui Humane Society, which is now trying to reunite <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//03//01//i-m-staying-here-for-my-animals-the-italian-man-rescuing-stray-dogs-in-ukraine/">pets with owners and treat the many animals that arrived at clinics wrapped in blankets covering wounds.<\/p>\n<p>\"We have had chickens, love birds, guinea pigs, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//18//hopping-mad-why-are-florida-residents-fed-up-with-these-fluffy-rabbits/">rabbits, dogs, cats,\u201d Shannon says. \u201cWe even have a pig here.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//82//55//80//808x454_cmsv2_b2ab3c07-5b2c-5358-bd82-11a7dac207f7-7825580.jpg/" alt=\"Katie Shannon/Maui Humane Society via AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/55\/80\/384x216_cmsv2_b2ab3c07-5b2c-5358-bd82-11a7dac207f7-7825580.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/55\/80\/640x360_cmsv2_b2ab3c07-5b2c-5358-bd82-11a7dac207f7-7825580.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/55\/80\/750x422_cmsv2_b2ab3c07-5b2c-5358-bd82-11a7dac207f7-7825580.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/55\/80\/828x466_cmsv2_b2ab3c07-5b2c-5358-bd82-11a7dac207f7-7825580.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/55\/80\/1080x608_cmsv2_b2ab3c07-5b2c-5358-bd82-11a7dac207f7-7825580.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/55\/80\/1200x675_cmsv2_b2ab3c07-5b2c-5358-bd82-11a7dac207f7-7825580.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/55\/80\/1920x1080_cmsv2_b2ab3c07-5b2c-5358-bd82-11a7dac207f7-7825580.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">An injured bird is treated at Maui Humane Society in Lahaina, Hawaii.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Katie Shannon/Maui Humane Society via AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Hawaii's rescued animals are being treated for burns<\/h2><p>Fuelled by dry grass and propelled by strong winds from a passing hurricane, the fires raced as fast as 1.6 kilometres every minute in one area. People were forced to scramble and flee in harrowing escapes they later relayed to family members who waited in agony to learn of their fate.<\/p>\n<p>The stories of the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//04//05//meet-the-volunteers-saving-ukraine-s-animals-from-the-horrors-of-war/">animals, though, were told by the damage on their bodies.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7821672,7813726\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//10//the-worst-disaster-ive-ever-seen-residents-dived-into-the-ocean-as-wildfires-ripped-throug/">'The worst disaster I've ever seen': Residents dived into the ocean as wildfires ripped through Maui<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//14//hawaii-wildfires-what-caused-the-deadly-blazes-and-is-climate-change-to-blame/">Hawaii wildfires: What caused the deadly blazes and is climate change to blame?<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A cat arrived with singed fur and spots of leg burns. A chicken needed both scorched claws wrapped with thick, blue medical tape.<\/p>\n<p>A clinic worker used surgical tweezers to delicately remove debris from a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//18//how-to-keep-your-pet-cool-in-a-heatwave-unusual-tips-from-frozen-food-to-brain-games/">dog's paws while another technician cradled the head, rubbed the neck with gentle thumb strokes and spoke calmly into the animal's ear.<\/p>\n<p>They were the lucky ones. On a Maui street, a dog\u2019s charred body was found.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//82//55//80//808x454_cmsv2_8ed65480-d5cf-5c4b-9de3-204bbd49f696-7825580.jpg/" alt=\"Katie Shannon/Maui Humane Society via AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/55\/80\/384x216_cmsv2_8ed65480-d5cf-5c4b-9de3-204bbd49f696-7825580.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/55\/80\/640x360_cmsv2_8ed65480-d5cf-5c4b-9de3-204bbd49f696-7825580.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/55\/80\/750x422_cmsv2_8ed65480-d5cf-5c4b-9de3-204bbd49f696-7825580.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/55\/80\/828x466_cmsv2_8ed65480-d5cf-5c4b-9de3-204bbd49f696-7825580.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/55\/80\/1080x608_cmsv2_8ed65480-d5cf-5c4b-9de3-204bbd49f696-7825580.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/55\/80\/1200x675_cmsv2_8ed65480-d5cf-5c4b-9de3-204bbd49f696-7825580.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/55\/80\/1920x1080_cmsv2_8ed65480-d5cf-5c4b-9de3-204bbd49f696-7825580.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">An injured dog is treated at Maui Humane Society in Lahaina, Hawaii, 9 August 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Katie Shannon/Maui Humane Society via AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Rescue teams continue to search for animals amid the destruction<\/h2><p>As the smoke clears and officials survey the scope of loss and destruction, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//20//every-life-has-value-campaigners-urge-people-not-to-leave-animals-behind-in-greeces-wildfi/">animal welfare<\/strong><\/a> advocates are working with the Maui Police Department to enter the burn area in search of lost, injured or deceased animals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs those areas continue to widen, we will be able to expand our scope of services,\u201d said Lisa Labrecque, CEO of the Maui Humane Society, at a Monday news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of feeding stations stocked with food and water have been set to draw scared <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//06//fake-animal-rescue-videos-are-a-money-making-scam-say-campaigners/">animals out of hiding so they can be tracked and transported to a shelter, where veterinary staffers treat both burn injuries and smoke inhalation cases.<\/p>\n<p>Found animals are checked for identification and scanned for a microchip so owners may be contacted. The Maui Humane Society has asked that deceased <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//06//17//meet-the-cattle-breeders-turned-conservationists-protecting-colombias-amazon-wildlife/">animals not be moved or destroyed so they can be cataloged and checked for identification.<\/p>\n<p>\"But this is only the beginning,\" Shannon says. \"People need to understand that we are in the midst of this. And, you know, there is a harsh reality to come.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1692173179,"publishedAt":1692181160,"updatedAt":1692264877,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2023\/08\/16\/dogs-with-paws-burnt-down-to-the-bone-rescued-from-the-ashes-of-hawaiis-wildfires","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/55\/80\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_3e333c79-4d7e-584b-b753-48fc7a772ae1-7825580.jpg","altText":"The Maui Humane Society is treating dogs, cats, chickens, pigs and other animals that were badly burned while fleeing the wildfires. ","caption":"The Maui Humane Society is treating dogs, cats, chickens, pigs and other animals that were badly burned while fleeing the wildfires. 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toll from Hawaii wildfires surpasses 100, many more casualties expected","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Death toll from Hawaii wildfires surpasses 100, more victims expected","titleListing2":"The number of people killed in Hawaii fires rises to over 100 with many more expected as rescue efforts continue","leadin":"Authorities in Hawaii are trying to establish how the deadliest US wildfires in over a century started as the number of fatalities rises to over 100 with many more victims expected in the coming days.","summary":"Authorities in Hawaii are trying to establish how the deadliest US wildfires in over a century started as the number of fatalities rises to over 100 with many more victims expected in the coming days.","url":"the-number-of-people-killed-in-hawaii-fires-rises-to-over-100-with-many-more-expected","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Officials have had to bring a mobile morgue unit to help identify the remains of people killed in the wildfires that ravaged the island of Maui. \n\nAround 1,300 people are still missing and as rescue workers and dogs comb through the ruins they have been told to expect to find many more corpses, especially in the historic town of Lahaina which was destroyed by the flames.\u00a0 \n\nEven where the fires have retreated, authorities have warned that toxic byproducts may remain, including in drinking water, after the flames spewed poisonous fumes. \n\nThe US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) says it's working closely with state, county and federal partners in the response efforts and to help survivors. \n\nOn the ground, there are more than 190 search and rescue team members and over 380 FEMA employees. \n\nHawaii power company under pressure \n\nAs rescue and clean-up efforts continue there is also a focus on how the fires started and spread so quickly.\u00a0 \n\nFootage has emerged as key evidence pointing to fallen utility lines as the possible cause. \n\n\"I hear a pop coming from across the street,\" said resident Shane True. \"Soon as I hear the pop, all I heard is like electrical, like going on the ground there. I look, there's a power line right there and shortly after, it was just arching away on the ground, landed right in dry grass, so sparks, and then there was a fire.\" \n\nHawaiian Electric Co. faces criticism for not shutting off the power amid high wind warnings and keeping it on even as dozens of poles began to topple. \n\nA class-action lawsuit has already been filed seeking to hold the company responsible for the deaths. \n\nThe suit cites the utility\u2019s own documents showing it was aware that preemptive power shutoffs such as those used in California were an effective strategy to prevent wildfires but never adopted them. \n\nMikal Watts, one of the lawyers behind the lawsuit, told the AP this week that he was in Maui, interviewing witnesses and \u201ccollecting contemporaneously filmed videos.\u201d \n\n\u201cThere is credible evidence, captured on video, that at least one of the power line ignition sources occurred when trees fell into a Hawaiian Electric power line,\u201d said Watts, who confirmed he was referring to Treu\u2019s footage. \n\nHawaiian Electric declined to comment on the accusations in the lawsuit or whether it has ever shut down power before due to high winds. \n\nBut President and CEO Shelee Kimura noted at a news conference on Monday that many factors go into that decision, including the possible effect on people who rely on specialized medical equipment and firefighters who need power to pump water. \n\nExperts say the early evidence suggests multiple blazes may have been ignited in and around Lahaina on 8 August and there were no recorded lightning strikes or other apparent natural causes for the fires. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Officials have had to bring a mobile morgue unit to help identify the remains of people killed in the wildfires that ravaged the island of Maui.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1,300 people are still missing and as rescue workers and dogs comb through the ruins they have been told to expect to find many more corpses, especially in the historic town of Lahaina which was destroyed by the flames.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//82//52//34//808x454_cmsv2_945d0821-3933-59c7-b8d5-eebc8c05a74c-7825234.jpg/" alt=\"Rick Bowmer/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/52\/34\/384x216_cmsv2_945d0821-3933-59c7-b8d5-eebc8c05a74c-7825234.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/52\/34\/640x360_cmsv2_945d0821-3933-59c7-b8d5-eebc8c05a74c-7825234.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/52\/34\/750x422_cmsv2_945d0821-3933-59c7-b8d5-eebc8c05a74c-7825234.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/52\/34\/828x466_cmsv2_945d0821-3933-59c7-b8d5-eebc8c05a74c-7825234.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/52\/34\/1080x608_cmsv2_945d0821-3933-59c7-b8d5-eebc8c05a74c-7825234.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/52\/34\/1200x675_cmsv2_945d0821-3933-59c7-b8d5-eebc8c05a74c-7825234.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/52\/34\/1920x1080_cmsv2_945d0821-3933-59c7-b8d5-eebc8c05a74c-7825234.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">People walk along Main Street past wildfire damage on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Rick Bowmer/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Even where the fires have retreated, authorities have warned that toxic byproducts may remain, including in drinking water, after the flames spewed poisonous fumes.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7816468,7820492,7821672\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//08//14//as-maui-rescue-continues-families-and-faith-leaders-cling-to-hope-but-tackle-reality-of-lo/">As Maui rescue continues, families and faith leaders cling to hope but tackle reality of loss<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//08//11//watch-catastrophic-wildfires-lay-waste-to-historic-maui-town-of-lahaina/">WATCH: Catastrophic wildfires lay waste to historic Maui town of Lahaina<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//14//hawaii-wildfires-what-caused-the-deadly-blazes-and-is-climate-change-to-blame/">Hawaii wildfires: What caused the deadly blazes and is climate change to blame?<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) says it's working closely with state, county and federal partners in the response efforts and to help survivors.<\/p>\n<p>On the ground, there are more than 190 search and rescue team members and over 380 FEMA employees.<\/p>\n<h2>Hawaii power company under pressure<\/h2><p>As rescue and clean-up efforts continue there is also a focus on how the fires started and spread so quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Footage has emerged as key evidence pointing to fallen utility lines as the possible cause.<\/p>\n<p>\"I hear a pop coming from across the street,\" said resident Shane True. \"Soon as I hear the pop, all I heard is like electrical, like going on the ground there. I look, there's a power line right there and shortly after, it was just arching away on the ground, landed right in dry grass, so sparks, and then there was a fire.\"<\/p>\n<p>Hawaiian Electric Co. faces criticism for not shutting off the power amid high wind warnings and keeping it on even as dozens of poles began to topple.<\/p>\n<p>A class-action lawsuit has already been filed seeking to hold the company responsible for the deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The suit cites the utility\u2019s own documents showing it was aware that preemptive power shutoffs such as those used in California were an effective strategy to prevent wildfires but never adopted them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//82//52//34//808x539_cmsv2_173c909f-f43f-5bba-8f98-45d3ce333b16-7825234.jpg/" alt=\"Rick Bowmer/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/52\/34\/384x256_cmsv2_173c909f-f43f-5bba-8f98-45d3ce333b16-7825234.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/52\/34\/640x427_cmsv2_173c909f-f43f-5bba-8f98-45d3ce333b16-7825234.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/52\/34\/750x500_cmsv2_173c909f-f43f-5bba-8f98-45d3ce333b16-7825234.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/52\/34\/828x552_cmsv2_173c909f-f43f-5bba-8f98-45d3ce333b16-7825234.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/52\/34\/1080x720_cmsv2_173c909f-f43f-5bba-8f98-45d3ce333b16-7825234.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/52\/34\/1200x800_cmsv2_173c909f-f43f-5bba-8f98-45d3ce333b16-7825234.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/52\/34\/1920x1281_cmsv2_173c909f-f43f-5bba-8f98-45d3ce333b16-7825234.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Linemen work on poles, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii, following a deadly wildfire that caused heavy damage days earlier.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Rick Bowmer/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Mikal Watts, one of the lawyers behind the lawsuit, told the AP this week that he was in Maui, interviewing witnesses and \u201ccollecting contemporaneously filmed videos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is credible evidence, captured on video, that at least one of the power line ignition sources occurred when trees fell into a Hawaiian Electric power line,\u201d said Watts, who confirmed he was referring to Treu\u2019s footage.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaiian Electric declined to comment on the accusations in the lawsuit or whether it has ever shut down power before due to high winds.<\/p>\n<p>But President and CEO Shelee Kimura noted at a news conference on Monday that many factors go into that decision, including the possible effect on people who rely on specialized medical equipment and firefighters who need power to pump water.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say the early evidence suggests multiple blazes may have been ignited in and around Lahaina on 8 August and there were no recorded lightning strikes or other apparent natural causes for the fires.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1692165020,"publishedAt":1692168925,"updatedAt":1692172988,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/08\/16\/the-number-of-people-killed-in-hawaii-fires-rises-to-over-100-with-many-more-expected","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/52\/46\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_969812ab-2a48-5cae-a250-625125946312-7825246.jpg","altText":"Wildfire wreckage is seen Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii.","caption":"Wildfire wreckage is seen Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii.","captionCredit":"Rick Bowmer\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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So far it already ranks in third place. \n\nWith the biggest impacts of the Pacific Ocean warming phenomenon known as El Ni\u00f1o expected to be seen between February and April 2024, next year is likely to be even hotter. \n\nScientists fear this could help push the planet past the 1.5C warming limit and drive extreme weather events like drought, storms and flooding. \n\nEarlier this month, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) confirmed that July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. \n\nNOAA corroborated this on Monday, with figures showing temperatures were more than 0.2C higher than the previous record set in 2019. \n\n\u201cLast month was way, way warmer than anything we\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d said Kapnick. \n\nParts of North and South America , North Africa and the Antarctic Peninsula were especially hot, with temperature increases of around 4C above average, NASA's experts say. \n\nOcean surface temperatures also hit a record high for the fourth month running, which contributed to July\u2019s record heat. \n\n\u2018Mother Nature is sending us a message\u2019 \n\nWith the last nine years the warmest since NASA's records began in 1880, the space agency\u2019s administrator Bill Nelson warned, \u201cMother Nature is sending us a message, and that message is \u2018We better act now, before it\u2019s too late to save our planet\u2019.\u201d \n\nWarming temperatures have sparked a cascade of disasters from melting sea ice and sea level rise to wildfires, flooding and storms in recent months. \n\n\u201cWhat happens in the oceans does not stay in the oceans, it affects the whole planet,\u201d said Carlos Del Castillo, chief of the ocean ecology lab at NASA. \n\nWhile El Ni\u00f1o has exacerbated extreme weather events, the US space agency said human-made emissions are the lead culprit - especially over the past four decades. \n\n\u201cWe expect many of these impacts to escalate with continued warming,\u201d said Katherine Calvin, chief scientist and senior climate advisor at NASA. \n\n\u201cThere are no political or geographical boundaries, we are all in this together,\u201d Nelson added. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>There\u2019s a 50 per cent chance that 2023 will be the Earth\u2019s warmest year on record, according to NASA experts.<\/p>\n<p>And, with the biggest impacts of El Ni\u00f1o yet to be felt, 2024 will be even warmer.<\/p>\n<p>Last month was the hottest July \u201cby a long shot\u201d, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) chief scientist Sarah Kapnick confirmed during a news conference on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Greenhouse gases produced by human activity were pinpointed as the main driver of warming.<\/p>\n<h2>2023 is shaping up to be a record-hot year<\/h2><p>According to NCEI\u2019s annual global <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//01//11//uk-records-warmest-year-ever-which-other-european-countries-broke-temperature-records-in-2/">temperature outlook, it is \u201cvirtually certain\u201d 2023 will rank in the top five hottest years on record. So far it already ranks in third place.<\/p>\n<p>With the biggest impacts of the Pacific Ocean warming phenomenon known as <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//07//el-nino-is-back-heres-what-it-means-for-extreme-weather/">El Ni\u00f1o<\/strong><\/a> expected to be seen between February and April 2024, next year is likely to be even hotter.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists fear this could help push the planet past the 1.5C <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//10//first-week-of-july-was-the-hottest-on-record-says-un-weather-agency/">warming limit and drive extreme weather events like drought, storms and flooding.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7777374,7760334\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//18//in-pictures-europe-scorched-by-blistering-temperatures-as-second-heatwave-hits/">In pictures: Europe scorched by blistering temperatures as second heatwave hits<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//26//europe-heatwave-here-are-some-of-the-most-common-myths-debunked/">Europe heatwave: Here are some of the most common myths debunked<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) confirmed that July was the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//08//july-breaks-record-for-earths-hottest-ever-month/">hottest month<\/strong><\/a> ever recorded on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>NOAA corroborated this on Monday, with figures showing <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//11//valencia-sets-new-heat-record-during-third-spanish-heatwave-of-the-summer/">temperatures were more than 0.2C higher than the previous record set in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast month was way, way <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//18//hottest-temperatures-ever-how-do-countries-in-europe-compare/">warmer than anything we\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d said Kapnick.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of North and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//08//winter-heatwave-temperatures-in-this-south-american-country-have-hit-37c/">South America<\/strong><\/a>, North Africa and the Antarctic Peninsula were especially hot, with temperature increases of around 4C above average, NASA's experts say.<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//04//ocean-heat-record-broken-and-experts-fear-temperatures-could-rise-even-further/">Ocean surface temperatures also hit a record high for the fourth month running, which contributed to July\u2019s record heat.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Mother Nature is sending us a message\u2019<\/h2><p>With the last nine years the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//07//world-records-hottest-day-since-records-began-as-europe-braces-for-sweltering-july/">warmest since NASA's records began in 1880, the space agency\u2019s administrator Bill Nelson warned, \u201cMother Nature is sending us a message, and that message is \u2018We better act now, before it\u2019s too late to save our planet\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warming temperatures have sparked a cascade of disasters from melting <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//08//the-worlds-biggest-heatwave-happened-in-antarctica-last-year-what-does-this-mean-for-our-p/">sea ice<\/strong><\/a> and sea level rise to wildfires, flooding and storms in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happens in the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//26//mediterranean-sea-breaks-new-heat-record-what-does-this-mean-for-weather-in-europe/">oceans does not stay in the oceans, it affects the whole planet,\u201d said Carlos Del Castillo, chief of the ocean ecology lab at NASA.<\/p>\n<p>While El Ni\u00f1o has exacerbated <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//08//15//holidaymakers-warned-to-stay-extremely-vigilant-as-wildfires-in-france-force-thousands-to-/">extreme weather<\/strong><\/a> events, the US space agency said human-made emissions are the lead culprit - especially over the past four decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect many of these impacts to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//10//the-worst-disaster-ive-ever-seen-residents-dived-into-the-ocean-as-wildfires-ripped-throug/">escalate with continued warming,\u201d said Katherine Calvin, chief scientist and senior climate advisor at NASA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no political or geographical boundaries, we are all in this together,\u201d Nelson added.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1692107219,"publishedAt":1692108409,"updatedAt":1692173285,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2023\/08\/15\/way-warmer-than-anything-weve-ever-seen-50-chance-2023-will-be-the-hottest-year-ever-nasa-","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/42\/64\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_3ab1b814-f327-5c63-8374-5a1c93980137-7824264.jpg","altText":"A woman protects herself with a hand-held fan from the sun in Madrid, Spain, July 2023. 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In a series of test flights, pilots were able to reduce contrails by 54 per cent. \n\nThe experiment, led by Google Research, American Airlines and Bill Gates\u2019s Breakthrough Energy, has been praised for its potential to mitigate the climate impact of flying . \n\nBut climate campaigners have warned against using the technological breakthrough as an excuse to fly more. \n\nHow do contrails form? \n\nContrails are created when ice crystals form around tiny particles of carbon emitted by a plane\u2019s engines. \n\nThey form when aeroplanes fly through layers of humidity and can hang around for anywhere between a few minutes and 18 hours, depending on the atmospheric conditions. \n\nContrails contribute to global warming by trapping heat in the Earth\u2019s atmosphere. \n\nAvoiding flying through areas with atmospheric conditions that allow contrails to form could help to reduce this warming effect. \n\nCan flight paths be changed to avoid contrails? \n\nOver a period of six months, American Airlines pilots took 70 test flights on routes that avoided altitudes likely to create contrails. \n\nThe routes were determined by Google \u2019s AI-based predictions and contrail models from Breakthrough Energy. \n\nSatellite imagery following the flights was analysed showing that contrails were reduced by 54 per cent. \n\nFlights that took routes to avoid creating contrails were also found to burn 2 per cent additional fuel , however. \n\nGoogle says only a small percentage of flights need to be adjusted to avoid the majority of contrail warming, minimising the additional fuel required. \n\nAI breakthroughs must be accompanied by a reduction in air traffic \n\nWhile contrail avoidance could be a significant step towards reducing the climate impact of flying , environmental groups warn against viewing it as a silver bullet. \n\n\u201cIt is vital that we address the climate-wrecking impact of contrails but this must be accompanied by an urgent reduction in air traffic,\u201d says Hannah Lawrence of Stay Grounded, a global network promoting climate-friendly alternatives to flying. \n\nShe says technological improvements such as this are important, but alone they\u00a0are not enough . \n\n\u201cWhile these routes reduced contrails, there is a huge flaw in the fact that they used more fuel ,\u201d Hannah continues. \n\nFinlay Asher of Safe Landing , an industry group that campaigns for a sustainable future for aviation, notes that previous research carried out by UK-based aerospace company Satavia and NATS (National Air Traffic Services) has shown that routes designed to avoid contrail formation could actually save on fuel. \n\nHowever, he warns against airlines viewing it as a form of carbon credit .\u00a0 \n\n\"We don\u2019t think it\u2019s right at all to say that by avoiding warming contrails, our airlines should then have a licence to pump ever more CO2 into the atmosphere,\" says Finlay. \n\nHe believes that the climate impact of flying should be better regulated through an emissions pricing system instead, which would provide an incentive to reduce all emissions. \n\n\u201cIn the midst of climate breakdown, we need effective action and we cannot allow insufficient measures by industry to postpone the urgent action required,\" adds Hannah. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>AI is being used to help mitigate the climate impact of contrails - the thin white clouds that planes leave in their wake.<\/p>\n<p>Contrails - or condensation trails - can trap heat in the atmosphere and are responsible for more than a third of aviation\u2019s global warming impact, according to the 2022 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report.<\/p>\n<p>Using AI-based predictions based on satellite imagery, weather and flight path data, Google identified routes that avoided the atmospheric conditions needed to create these clouds. In a series of test flights, pilots were able to reduce contrails by 54 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment, led by Google Research, American Airlines and Bill Gates\u2019s Breakthrough Energy, has been praised for its potential to mitigate the climate <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//05//04//co2-emissions-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-for-the-climate-cost-of-air-travel/">impact of flying<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But climate campaigners have warned against using the technological breakthrough as an excuse to fly more.<\/p>\n<h2>How do contrails form?<\/h2><p>Contrails are created when ice crystals form around tiny particles of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//02//greek-wildfires-have-unleashed-the-same-co2-emissions-in-july-as-over-222000-cars-in-a-yea/">carbon emitted by a plane\u2019s engines.<\/p>\n<p>They form when aeroplanes fly through layers of humidity and can hang around for anywhere between a few minutes and 18 hours, depending on the atmospheric conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Contrails contribute to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//02//10//what-are-rainbow-clouds-rare-spectacle-captured-over-the-arctic-circle/">global warming<\/strong><\/a> by trapping heat in the Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Avoiding flying through areas with atmospheric conditions that allow contrails to form could help to reduce this warming effect.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7812930,7735432\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//10//france-is-raising-taxes-on-flights-to-pay-for-trains-should-other-european-countries-do-th/">France is raising taxes on flights to pay for trains: Should other European countries do the same?<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//09//can-you-change-a-polluting-industry-from-the-inside-ex-aviation-mining-and-gas-employees-s/">Can you change a polluting industry from the inside? Ex aviation, mining and gas employees speak out<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Can flight paths be changed to avoid contrails?<\/h2><p>Over a period of six months, American Airlines pilots took 70 test flights on routes that avoided altitudes likely to create contrails.<\/p>\n<p>The routes were determined by <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//08//25//google-flights-accused-of-airbrushing-emissions-by-changing-calculations/">Google/u2019s AI-based predictions and contrail models from Breakthrough Energy.<\/p>\n<p>Satellite imagery following the flights was analysed showing that contrails were reduced by 54 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Flights that took routes to avoid creating contrails were also found to burn 2 per cent additional <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2022//05//04//how-do-sustainable-aviation-fuels-work-and-are-they-a-viable-alternative/">fuel, however.<\/p>\n<p>Google says only a small percentage of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//09//22//activists-take-over-billboards-to-call-out-impact-of-flying-on-global-carbon-emissions/">flights need to be adjusted to avoid the majority of contrail warming, minimising the additional fuel required.<\/p>\n<h2>AI breakthroughs must be accompanied by a reduction in air traffic<\/h2><p>While contrail avoidance could be a significant step towards reducing the climate impact of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//02//28//jet-zero-scientists-warn-that-guilt-free-flying-is-still-out-of-reach-in-the-uk/">flying, environmental groups warn against viewing it as a silver bullet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is vital that we address the climate-wrecking impact of contrails but this must be accompanied by an urgent <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//06//01//short-haul-ban-these-european-countries-could-soon-see-the-end-of-domestic-flights/">reduction in air traffic,\u201d says Hannah Lawrence of Stay Grounded, a global network promoting climate-friendly alternatives to flying.<\/p>\n<p>She says technological improvements such as this are important, but alone they\u00a0are <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//05//31//fact-check-will-the-french-ban-on-domestic-flights-make-a-big-difference-to-carbon-emissio/">not enough<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile these routes reduced contrails, there is a huge flaw in the fact that they used more <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//06//26//wrong-direction-fossil-fuels-still-dominate-despite-growth-in-renewables-report-reveals/">fuel,/u201d Hannah continues.<\/p>\n<p>Finlay Asher of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////safe-landing.org///">Safe Landing<\/strong><\/a>, an industry group that campaigns for a sustainable future for aviation, notes that previous research carried out by UK-based aerospace company Satavia and NATS (National Air Traffic Services) has shown that routes designed to avoid contrail formation could actually save on fuel.<\/p>\n<p>However, he warns against airlines viewing it as a form of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//02//21//you-ve-heard-of-offsetting-but-what-in-the-world-is-carbon-insetting/">carbon credit<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"We don\u2019t think it\u2019s right at all to say that by avoiding warming contrails, our airlines should then have a licence to pump ever more CO2 into the atmosphere,\" says Finlay.<\/p>\n<p>He believes that the climate impact of flying should be better regulated through an emissions pricing system instead, which would provide an incentive to reduce all 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