For more information on Arctic and high latitude wildfires see this chapter from the AMAP Arctic Climate Change Update 2024 report at doi.org/10.21352/q5d...

2026 has been an active year for wildfires in the Arctic Circle with total estimated emissions, to 17 Aug, already 3rd highest since 2003, behind 2020 & 2019, despite starting later than usual in late July. #CopernicusAtmosphere GFASv1.2 data based on MODIS🛰️ @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int

Copernicus ECMWF@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · last mo.

#CopernicusAtmosphere data shows a huge smoke plume from wildfires in Siberia currently crossing the Arctic. Our latest forecast indicate the plume moving across eastern parts of Canada and north-eastern US in the next few days. ⬇️

Smoke from large-scale wildfires across northern Eurasia forecast to cross the Arctic Ocean in the coming days, as fires/smoke continue over N America. #CopernicusAtmosphere Fire Emissions Watch dataviz apps.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/fire-emissio... @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int

Analysis of 2026 Canada #wildfire emissions up to 9 July with the #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS dataset shows more typical onset and magnitude following the previous three extreme years. Fires have been burning across the country from NWT to Newfoundland. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int

Rapid increase in #wildfires across Canada in recent days resulting in vast amounts of smoke with plumes transported to the Arctic & across the North Atlantic in the #CopernicusAtmosphere AOD 30 June 00 UTC forecast atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/packa... @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int

Long-range transport of smoke from Siberia #wildfires to the Arctic Ocean in the #CopernicusAtmosphere aerosol optical depth forecast from 23 June 00UTC ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/datasets/cam.... Noting also some smoke from fires in Northwest Territories🇨🇦 @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int

Do you know why the Declaration says “their Creator,” not “our Creator”? Because it acknowledges that some people hold religious beliefs. It does not assert a shared national belief, and it certainly does not endorse Christianity.

Nothing makes someone look guiltier than forcing the Justice Department to promise never to investigate your taxes or prosecute you for anything they might find

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

Claude Monet (1840-1926) Fields in Spring, 1887. Oil on canvas.

The ice is thick, snow is plentiful. We could see one of those old time breakups on the Yukon: sheets of ice twelve feet thick and a hundred feet long get jammed and hoisted into the air and toppled back into the river again. When ice goes over the bank it can shear the trees like cut grass 1/2

Rick Thoman@alaskawx.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Snowpack snow water equivalent (amount of water in the snowpack) as of April 6 was well above normal in the middle/upper Yukon River drainage in ERA5 reanalysis courtesy @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social. With continuing cool temps, it's likely to be a consequential break-up for some communities. #akwx

It never bode well for civilization to have the stupidest man on the planet also be the most powerful.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 7mo ago

Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu

Fires on the Rise in the Far North with input from @jmccartygeo.bsky.social and the @arcticcouncil.bsky.social AMAP Arctic Climate Update Report published last year science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-... @mikeflannigan.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @gwandaii.bsky.social

Fires on the Rise in the Far North - NASA Science

Satellite-based maps show northern wildland fires becoming more frequent and widespread as temperatures rise and lightning reaches higher latitudes.

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Looking back at another extreme year for Canadian #wildfires resulting in 2025 with the 2nd highest annual total estimated emissions, after 2023. Read more in the #CopernicusAtmosphere global fire emissions review atmosphere.copernicus.eu/2025-sees-in... @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int

#CopernicusClimate has released its first data from the Copernicus pan-Arctic Regional Reanalysis (CARRA2): 2.5 km pan‑Arctic coverage, 24 years of data in the Climate Data Store, more realistic physics & improved details for local extremes, lots of added details with respect to ERA5. ⬇️

Americans are surprised to learn that racist, xenophobic gulags are bad for business. More at 11.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The Hyundai arrests “could significantly impact future direct investment in the U.S.,” said South Korea’s President. South Korean companies “can’t help hesitating a lot” about making new investments .. if their workers are liable to end up in detention ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/sout...

Analysis of #CopernicusAtmosphere fire emissions for EU🇪🇺+UK🇬🇧 shows that 2025 (up to 19 August) has the highest annual total of the past 23 years driven by the, still increasing, scale of the devastating #wildfires in Spain & Portugal over the past two weeks. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int

Copernicus ECMWF@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · last yr.

#Wildfires in Spain have reached record emissions in just one week according to our #CopernicusAtmosphere data. Heatwaves & drought are fueling fires, forcing evacuations & worsening air quality hundreds of km away. 🔥 Read the article for details atmosphere.copernicus.eu/spain-below-...

Stephen Miller accidentally summons the nation's hippies to take to the streets.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Stephen Miller: "All these demonstrators that you've seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they're not part of the city and never have been ... we're gonna ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they're all over 90 years old."

If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:

Folks with the University of Alaska Fairbanks contributed mightily to the American Meteorological Society's 2024 State of the Climate Arctic Chapter. #akwx #Climate #AlaskaSky @arcticgoddess.bsky.social @climatologist49.bsky.social www.uaf.edu/news/state-o...

State of the climate continues to track global change

The American Meteorological Society released its annual State of the Climate report this week, providing a comprehensive overview of global conditions in 2024. University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist...

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Northern North America wildfire area burned updated to Sunday. Area burned is higher than last year at this point in the season. Alaska has burned about 42 percent more area, Yukon Territory about 17 percent more and the Northwest Territories about 4 percent more. #akwx #ytwx #ntwx #Wildfire2025

For Woodwell’s Dr. Kayla Mathes, community perspectives have driven home the need for fire suppression as a tool to protect people and climate. Read her essay at www.woodwellclimate.org/fire-suppres... @permafrostpathways.bsky.social

Fire suppression in the boreal: "There's too much fire now" - Woodwell Climate

In boreal forests, which are experiencing intensifying fires, fire suppression offers a way to protect both people and carbon-rich permafrost

woodwellclimate.org

Saskatchewan & Manitoba have already surpassed their previous highest annual total #wildfire emissions with Ontario amongst the highest in the 23-year #CopernicusAtmosphere dataset. Further west, British Columbia is comparable to 2023 & 2024 for the same time of year.

If you're interested in wildland fire data, you have to follow my friend Mark Parrington who "brings the heat" in his posts!

Mark Parrington@mparrington.bsky.social · last yr.

Total estimated emissions from Canadian #wildfires continue to increase rapidly with 2025 already 3rd highest year, after 2023 & 2024, as of 13 July. #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS data based on MODIS🛰️ active fire obs ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/datasets/cam... @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int

Smoke from wildfires evident in the available PM2.5 air quality reports in Alaska and the Yukon Territory early Monday. AQI improved in the Fairbanks area but remains poor at Coldfoot and surely much of the rest of the northern Interior. Graphic courtesy PurpleAir. #akwx #ytwx #Smoke #Summer2025

Wildfire area burned in northern North America to July 14 is ahead of last year at this time in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Similar area burned now compared to last year mid-July in the Northwest Territories. Graphic from the NASA FIRMS website. #akwx #Wildfire #Summer2025 #Canada #Alaska

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for. UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families. Our full statement below. ⬇️ 1/

Canada's reward for being America's truest, most stalwart ally of the last 150 years is an unjustified trade war and 35% tariffs. There are battlefields the world over where Canada's finest lost blood on our behalf, little did they know we would stick the knife in their back at home. #shameful