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Topic: California Wildfires

Fire personnel respond to homes destroyed while a helicopter drops water as the Palisades Fire grows in Pacific Palisades, California on January 7, 2025. (DAVID SWANSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump spreading wildfire misinformation

Matthew Rozsa
A burned residence smolders during the Bear fire, part of the North Lightning Complex fires, in unincorporated Butte County, California on September 09, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Wildfire smoke hurting pregnant moms

Lauren DeLaunay Miller - Grist
Cal firefighter Travis Moore lights a backfire along highway 50 as the Caldor Fire burns near Lake Tahoe, CA on Tuesday August 31, 2021. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

California wildfires jump the Sierra

Nicole Karlis
The sky turns red over the town on January 04, 2020 in Bodalla, Australia. A state of emergency has been declared across NSW with dangerous fire conditions forecast for Saturday, as more than 140 bushfires continue to burn. (Brett Hemmings/Getty Images)

California’s red skies, explained

Nicole Karlis
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Heavy smoke from nearby wild fires covers the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco on August 20, 2020 as seen from the Marin Headlands in Sausalito, California. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

Why Cali's wildfires keep getting worse

Nicole Karlis
Judy Aquiline, a Sonoma local, sits in the candle-lit restaurant Reel and Brand in Sonoma, California, on October 9, 2019, during a planned power outage by the Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) utility company. - Rolling blackouts set to affect millions of Californians began on October 9 as a utility company started switching off power to an unprecedented number of households in the face of hot, windy weather that raises the risk of wildfires. (BRITTANY HOSEA-SMALL/AFP via Getty Images)

The battle over control of PG&E

Theodore J. Kury - The Conversation
A California Street cable car operator and passenger wear breathing masks to protect against smoke from wildfires Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

The California exodus begins

Nicole Karlis
(AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

Arrival of a planetary fire age?

Stephen Pyne - The Conversation
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A Cal Fire firefighter monitors the Kincaide Fire as it burns a hillside on October 24, 2019 in Geyserville, California. Fueled by high winds, the Kincaide Fire has burned over 7,000 acres in a matter of hours and has prompted evacuations in the Geyserville area. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images))

Farmworkers face health risks in fires

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - KFF Health News
Intense flames driven by extreme drought conditions, wind and hot weather sweep over a remote section of the San Bernardino National Forest during the Blue Cut Fire on August 18, 2016 near Wrightwood, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Why everyone should care about wildfires

Nicole Karlis
Mailboxes remain near where houses once stood Thursday, Aug 18, 2016, in Phelan, Calif. Scenes of destruction were everywhere Thursday after a huge wildfire sped through mountains and high desert 60 miles east of Los Angeles so swiftly that it took seasoned firefighters off guard. (AP Photo/Christine Armario) (AP)

Tax don't ban "high risk" rebuilding

Alexander Smith - The Conversation
Judy Aquiline, a Sonoma local, sits in the candle-lit restaurant Reel and Brand in Sonoma, California, on October 9, 2019, during a planned power outage by the Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) utility company. - Rolling blackouts set to affect millions of Californians began on October 9 as a utility company started switching off power to an unprecedented number of households in the face of hot, windy weather that raises the risk of wildfires. (BRITTANY HOSEA-SMALL/AFP via Getty Images)

California's blackouts are not enough

Carl Pope
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(AP/Jae C. Hong)

Parts of CA: Too many fires to insure

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., speaks to reporters at the Capitol after he blocked a unanimous consent vote on a long-awaited $19 billion disaster aid bill in the chamber on Tuesday, May 28, 2019. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lone Republican blocks disaster bill

Igor Derysh
Cars destroyed by the Camp Fire sit in the lot at a used car dealership on November 9, 2018 in Paradise, California. (Getty Images/Justin Sullivan)

PG&E plans to file for bankruptcy

Nicole Karlis
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75% of California is in drought — again

Nicole Karlis
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Democrats must embrace Green New Deal

Paul Rosenberg
Ryan Zinke (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Zinke blames environmentalists for fires

Ryan Mikel
Joe Scarborough (Credit: MSNBC)

Joe bashes Trump: "He took crazy to 11"

Travis Gettys - Raw Story
Axl Rose; Donald Trump (Getty/Gustavo Caballero/Mark Wilson)

Axl Rose feuds with Trump on Twitter

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
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John Bolton; Donald Trump (Getty/Salon)

John Bolton takes command

Heather Digby Parton
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Trump insults California again

Matthew Rozsa
Monica Lewinsky and her stepmother, Barbara Lewinsky push through a large crowd of media as they leave a Santa Monica, Calif., restaurant Thursday Feb. 5, 1998 (AP/Nick Ut)

The stories that got us talking

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

The air quality inequality

Nicole Karlis
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