Our boreal fire team @woodwellclimate.bsky.social is in D.C. this week to discuss responses+solutions to address the severe northern #wildfires impacting people, animals, and ecosystems. We'll be adding to this resource 🧵, so please let us know what you'd like to see. (🗺️ by @cmshintani.bsky.social) - ThreadSky

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permafrostpathways.bsky.social • 7 days ago

Our boreal fire team @woodwellclimate.bsky.social is in D.C. this week to discuss responses+solutions to address the severe northern #wildfires impacting people, animals, and ecosystems.

We'll be adding to this resource 🧵, so please let us know what you'd like to see.
(🗺️ by @cmshintani.bsky.social)

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permafrostpathways.bsky.social•7 days ago

The connection between these boreal #wildfires and permafrost represents a now-and-future threat to climate, and we're working to better understand and model regional and global impacts from this fire-thaw feedback.
Read more about what we know and what we're working to find out in this explainer:

permafrostpathways.bsky.social•7 days ago

Current, interactive map of #wildfire smoke and PM 2.5. Indoor air filters and wearing a respirator such as an N95 can help reduce the health impacts from smoke. https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/

permafrostpathways.bsky.social•7 days ago

Developing “a Wildland Cultural Interface, coproduced by Indigenous leaders, elders, fire leaders and fire keepers with fire managers, can help us see the true picture of values at risk in the Arctic, and what we need to do to protect them,” writes Edward Alexander in this essay on cultural burning.

permafrostpathways.bsky.social•6 days ago

Great report @grist.org by @mrmattsimon.bsky.social on the smoke and health impacts from Canada wildfires, including why fire in peatlands carries different risks, the extractive legacies in the smoke, and the disproportionate impacts on northern First Nations communities.
https://grist.org/climate/canada-wildfire-smoke-toxic-arsenic/

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