Death Toll in California Wildfires Rises to Five

Los Angeles Times

The number of victims from massive wildfires raking Northern California has grown to five, with two more bodies recovered in the Valley Fire. Story here.

Pesticides in Paradise: Hawaii's Spike in Birth Defects Puts Focus on GM Crops

theguardian

Local doctors are in the eye of a storm swirling for the past three years over whether corn that’s been genetically modified to resist pesticides is a source of prosperity, as companies claim, or of birth defects and illnesses. Story here.

The Leap Manifesto: A Call for Caring for the Earth and One Another

Common Dreams byNaomi Klein, David Suzuki, Leonard Cohen, Ellen Page, Donald Sutherland

Clear Lake, Manitoba. PinP photo.

'This our sacred duty to those this country harmed in the past, to those suffering needlessly in the present and to all who have a right to a bright and safe future.' Story here.

More Than 100,000 Flee Floods in Japan After "Once-in-50-Years" Rain

SCIENTIFIC

AMERICAN

Unprecedented rain in Japan unleashed heavy floods on Friday that tore houses from their foundations, uprooted trees and forced more than 100,000 people from their homes. Story here.

Why Climate Activists Stand with Refugees

Common Dreams

“A culture that places so little value on human beings, that it allows them to be thrown to the waves, is also going to allow poor people’s countries to disappear beneath the waves because that is a threat to today’s profits.”

— Naomi Klein  Story here.

Amnesy International 

CANADA:
WELCOME
SYRIAN
REFUGEES

Canada’s commitment to resettling refugees has been modest and processing rates painfully slow. Remind the Prime Minister and all party leaders that Canadians welcome refugees. Story here.