Fire forces Japan to cancel rocket launch to ISS

A pre-dawn fire on Wednesday forced Japan’s space agency to cancel the launch of an unnamed rocket meant to deliver supplies to the International Space Station, the operator said. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-09-japan-cancel-rocket-iss.html…

Brazil Tries Deploying Its Military To Fight Fires in the Amazon

“As an ecological disaster in the Amazon escalated into a global political crisis, Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, took the rare step on Friday of mobilising the armed forces to help contain blazes of a scale not seen in nearly a decade,” reports the New York Times: The sudden reversal, after days of dismissing growing concern over hundreds of fires raging across…