Earth Changes
It has burned 917,579 acres and was only 59% contained as of Tuesday. Currently, the largest fire by acreage for the state is the August Complex, which burned 1,032,648 acres in 2020.
The Dixie Fire started on July 14 and has damaged or destroyed at least 1,282 structures, according to Cal Fire.
Of the top 20 largest wildfires since 1932, 17 have occurred since 2000; 11 since 2016; five in 2020 -- and three from this year.
"For September through December the entire state shows drier, more wind events, and large fire activity to continue for the next three months," said Cal Fire Chief Thom Porter.
The footage, taken by Reuters on Sunday, show the aftermath of a massive fire in the Apui, Amazonas State region.
Satellites registered 28,060 fires in the Brazilian Amazon in August.
According to official government data, fires burned well above the historic average for the third consecutive year.
The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest and critical to the world's ecosystem due to the vast amount of carbon dioxide that its plant life absorbs and stores.
The glacial outburst flood from the Eastern Skaftárketill cauldron comes in the wake of another flood from the western one, which began September 2 (see our report here).
A flood from the eastern cauldron has not occurred since 2018, and this one is expected to be about as large that year's flood. The flood in 2015 was considerably larger and caused more damage.
Seventeen women were injured in a lightning strike in Diana tea garden in the Banarhat police station area on Monday evening, they said.
All of them received severe burn injuries and were admitted to the Mal super-speciality hospital, they added.
It was raining, suddenly the women plucking leaves fell to the ground as a thunderbolt struck them, the tea garden's medical officer M.K. Soni said.

Sand and debris covers a road in a damaged neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, Sept. 6, 2021, in Grand Isle, La.
At least 71 people have died due to the storm -- which hit Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane -- as well as the devastation it left across eight states.
In Louisiana, 15 have died due to the storm's wrath. The Louisiana Health Department confirmed two more storm-related deaths Tuesday in St. Tammany Parish: a 68-year-old man who fell off a roof while making repairs to damage caused by Ida and a 71-year-old man who died due to a lack of oxygen during an extended power outage.
In the Northeast, at least 52 have died. The Harrison Police Department in Westchester County, New York, confirmed on Monday the recovery of a woman's body who went missing during last week's flooding.
The US Geological Survey (USGS) said a 7.0 magnitude quake struck 11 miles (18km) north-east of the resort of Acapulco, Guerrero, in the early hours of Wednesday sending people running into the street for safety.
The quake shook the hillsides around the resort, downing trees and pitching large boulders on to the road.
Waterfowl biologist Eric Reed said "a few hundred" dead snow geese were found at Starvation Cove, 30 kilometres west of Cambridge Bay in late August. The cause of the deaths is unknown.
"We're still trying to get people out there and and hopefully get some samples, get some more information as to what happened," he said.
There have been several other die-offs of snow geese in recent years, including another one near Cambridge Bay in 2017 and one near Gjoa Haven, Reed said.
Family members identified her as 85-year-old Dolores Oskins. She died Sunday at the Hilo Medical Center — three weeks after the incident.
She was bit on Aug. 14 while looking for her lost dog in Hawaiian Paradise Park. Dogs from a nearby lot charged her, biting her on her head, neck, and arms.

A lightning strike created havoc in one Alpena neighborhood, leaving a 30-foot trench and a gas leak.
The Alpena City Fire Department posted photos of the damage left behind after severe storms rolled through.
Fire crews were called to the home on West Campbell Street Tuesday afternoon.
Firefighters reported finding a 30-foot long trench created by the lightning and said it threw debris half a block away.
Rich McDonald was eating lunch at work across the street when he heard a noise that he described as a bomb.
"We heard a loud bang, we come outside and look and there were tree branches falling in the backyard, smoke, and then we noticed all the bricks on the ground," said McDonald.
Manatee County Fire Rescue responded shortly before 3 p.m. to 14816 Skip Jack Loop and pronounced the victim dead at the scene in a residential neighborhood.
"I just heard a huge explosion," neighbor Neia Conceico said. "It wasn't even raining."
The Manatee County Sheriff's office says the man was working as roofer, when he was struck. His identity has not yet been released.













Comment: Also pertinent: Flooding & sulphuric smells at rivers in Iceland linked with change in geothermal & volcanic activity