I talked last week about some of the horrors of the new extreme fire regime on European forests. In the American West, it means that many of the forests are just never going to come back. On a gentle slope on the western side of...
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BRITISH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918 (Q 2945) Belgian and British officers and war correspondents examining an unexploded ('dud') German 42cm shell at Houthem, 9 September 1917. From right.
Embers fly above a firefighter as he works to control a backfire as the Delta Fire burns in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. The blaze.
One of the only times the major American media talks about the rural West is during wildfire season, which has been sadly active this year. One question that rarely gets asked is who actually does this work? I've known a few firefighters over the years...
Embers fly above a firefighter as he works to control a backfire as the Delta Fire burns in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. The blaze.
Embers fly above a firefighter as he works to control a backfire as the Delta Fire burns in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. The blaze.
Embers fly above a firefighter as he works to control a backfire as the Delta Fire burns in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. The blaze had tripled in size overnight. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) There are many problems with the idea...
The explosion in catastrophic forest fires since 2000 obviously is primarily about climate change. But that climate change intersects with other parts of our society. After all, the entire measurement.
Embers fly above a firefighter as he works to control a backfire as the Delta Fire burns in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. The blaze.
The West right now is just...ugh. Just about every indicator of drought is flashing red across the Western U.S. after a dry winter and warm early spring. The snowpack is at less than half of normal in much of the region. Reservoirs are being drawn...
This is just so, so horrible. Fire crews worked for a third day to extinguish a wildfire on the slopes of Cape Town's Table Mountain on Tuesday as the city.
MALIBU, CA - NOVEMBER 09: The Woolsey Fire approaches homes on November 9, 2018 in Malibu, California. About 75,000 homes have been evacuated in Los Angeles and Ventura counties due.