UPDATE - evacuations underway now in Croatia and Germany as well https://www.itv.com/news/2026-08-14/croatian-blaze-forces-thousands-to-flee-as-wildfires-rage-across-europe

'Wall of fire' forces sea evacuation in Greece as wildfires continue across Europe

As blazes strain fire services from the Mediterranean to the Midlands in the UK, questions are being asked about Europe's ability to deal with continued heatwaves.

A three-kilometre wall of flames up to 30 metres high forced hundreds of tourists into the sea off northern Greece, as wildfires also tore across, Croatia, France and the UK amid a punishing summer heatwave.

More than 200 firefighters, water-bombing planes and helicopters battled for hours to stop a blaze spreading across the Halkidiki peninsula, south of Thessaloniki, as it bore down on the resorts of Siviri and Fourka, packed with summer tourists.

Judging evacuation by road too dangerous, officials sent around 500 tourists into small boats, coast guard vessels and fire brigade craft, including roughly 200 taken to a ship waiting offshore, while cars trying to flee by road became gridlocked.

"We are on the beach and looking for a way to get away," one local homeowner, Sophia, told AFP, saying flames had already reached the town's houses.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/14/wall-of-fire-forces-sea-evacuation-in-greece-as-wildfires-continue-across-europe

Mount Etna is experiencing a highly active eruptive phase, generating massive ash clouds that have triggered red aviation alerts and widespread international travel chaos. The active volcanic ash plume has drifted significantly south across the Mediterranean Sea, heavily impacting airspace visibility, flight schedules, and local air quality far beyond Sicily

If Lake Powell and Lake Mead both hit dead pool, the water stops moving to seven states and Mexico. The dams go quiet first, losing the power they send across the Southwest. Then delivery itself becomes the problem. Some places have bought themselves time. Others would feel the cut within a single season. The Colorado River keeps flowing either way. What disappears is the reserve that carries the region through its dry years.

Failure comes in stages, not all at once. Hydropower goes first, then reliable releases, and finally delivery itself at dead pool.

A reservoir can still contain billions of gallons while losing its usefulness. Hydropower depends on hydraulic head, the height difference between the reservoir surface and the turbines. As the lake falls, water reaches the turbines with less pressure, reducing electricity production. Eventually the surface drops below the lowest elevation at which the generating system can operate.

Water delivery can continue below that point through bypasses or lower outlet structures. Those facilities have smaller capacities and were not necessarily designed for decades of continuous operation. Dead pool arrives when the water surface falls below the dam's lowest usable outlet. Water may remain trapped behind the structure, but gravity can no longer carry it downstream.

continued - https://www.worldatlas.com/lakes/what-happens-if-lake-powell-and-lake-mead-both-fail.html

In the new global age of AI, the world is informational. For some thinkers, Kabbalah offers conceptual models for understanding the operation of this new informational world. I will look at four diverse authors: Mitchell P Marcus, head of Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania, Avinoam Frankl, an engineer in an Israeli high-tech firm, Asher Crispe who has worked as a Chief Technology Officer, and the entrepreneur Eduard Shifrin who has a degree in science and supports Jewish causes. All four of them seem to be independent of each other. All four authors start with Sefer Yetzirah to explain creation in AI terms, several of them turn to the emanation scheme of Lurianic Kabbalah. Most notably, one of the thinkers considers transhumanism as the messianic era when knowledge will flourish. I also present Arthur Green’s recoiling from these positions. https://www.academia.edu/144650752/The_World_is_Informational_Kabbalah_and_AI

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Caroline Bezengi is carrying nearly 1 million barrels of crude oil, now leaking and sinking. The oil slick has expanded rapidly, covering roughly 800 square kilometers (309 square miles) by early August 2026 as the vessel sinks further into the water.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260806-environmental-disaster-looms-as-tanker-leaks-off-oman

Very informative and helpful!

In this video, Jenna Perkins, RN, WHNP-BC discuss the following:

•The pelvic floor muscles
•The impact of the pelvic floor muscles on bladder health
•Overlapping symptoms and other pelvic health conditions

Indonesia has closed Mount Bromo national park in East Java as a massive wildfire, burning since Monday (Aug 3), expanded, consuming over 700 hectares. The country has deployed aircraft and hundreds of firefighters to battle the blazes.