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    Priceless seeds key to American West’s post-fire time

    23 May 2022

    A New Mexico facility where researchers work to restore forests devastated by fires faced an almost cruelly ironic threat: The largest wildfire burning in the US was fast approaching. Owen Burney and his team knew they had to save what they could.

    Wildfire in southwest Turkey rages on, dashing hopes it was contained

    23 Jun 2022

    The media footage showed smoke billowing from hills and police water cannon vehicles helping firefighters as the blaze spread through the woodlands in the sparsely populated area.

    Massive flames force evacuation near Arizona

    20 Apr 2022

    A fast-moving wildfire in rural northern Arizona ballooned to over 9 square miles on Tuesday as winds whipped the flames, shut down a major highway and grounded aircraft that could drop water and fire retardant.

    California should go bolder on climate change

    24 Aug 2022

    California may be known as a climate leader, but when it comes to legislation to cut pollution and phase out fossil fuels, state lawmakers are largely resting on their laurels. The state’s greenhouse gas reduction goals, once heralded as pioneering and ambitious, now lag other states and countries. California isn’t on track to meet

    Massive New Mexico wildfire leaps ahead with flying embers

    12 May 2022

    The blaze was racing up steep slopes and along exposed ridge lines, with the wind tossing hot embers further into unburned territory giving the fire an even bigger foothold on the tinder-dry landscape.

    US wildfire dangers seen spreading east as climate risks grow

    16 May 2022

    Wildfires pose at least a moderate risk to more than 30 million properties across the United States, according to modeling by First Street Foundation, a nonprofit that maps climate risks.

    Would public ownership of PG&E reduce the risk of wildfire?

    02 Sep 2022

    This summer is yet another marked by wildfire in California. Blazes have ignited throughout the state, including a deadly one that exploded near the Oregon border in late July. The fall is likely to be worse.

    Hazy conditions force Indonesia to shutter schools over children's health concerns

    14 Oct 2019

    Forest fires are an annual occurrence in Indonesia. Forest fires in 2015 spread haze across a swathe of Southeast Asia, and according to a study by Harvard and Columbia universities, hastened 100,000 deaths.

    The sudden outrage over the Amazon fires smacks of hypocrisy

    27 Aug 2019

    The Amazon is burning. It’s been burning for years. Don’t you remember at school, your environmentally conscious teacher would sit your class down with a string of videos showing the devastation in one of the most incredible regions in the world? These videos would show the large-scale deforestation, would explain that the Amazon

    As Amazon burns, scientists fear a tipping point is near

    28 Aug 2019

    Flames are spreading across the Amazon rainforest this summer, spewing millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each day. But scientists say that’s not their biggest concern.

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