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Topic: Wildfire

Dick Van Dyke speaks during the 43rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors at The Kennedy Center on May 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images)

Dick Van Dyke was saved from Malibu fire

Nardos Haile
View of destroyed houses at Villa El Olivar after the forest fires on February 4, 2024 in Vina del Mar, Chile. (Claudio Santana/Getty Images)

Chilean wildfires kill at least 122

Matthew Rozsa
A Greek flag flutters in the wind during a wildfire in Chasia in the outskirts of Athens on August 22, 2023. (ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Think this summer was bad? Just wait

Émile P. Torres
Buildings still smolder days after a wildfire gutted downtown Lahaina. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Record-breaking year of climate disaster

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Deflated globe (Getty Images/Moussa81)

Ecosystem collapses may happen rapidly

Matthew Rozsa
Giant sequoia redwood tree in Tuolumne Grove of Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Valley, California, 2016. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

US announces plan to save giant sequoias

Julia Kane - Grist
The controlled burn at the General Sherman tree landmark removes white firs and decayed matter from the forest floor, while not harming the sequoias. (Getty Images/Raymond Gehman)

Saving trees from fire with more fire

Eric Schank
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)

How to purify your home after a wildfire

Bernard J. Wolfson - KFF Health News
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A tree stump is engulfed in flames in the Bravo Bravo section of the Bootleg Fire on July 21, 2021 in the Fremont National Forest of Oregon. The Bootleg Fire, which started on July 6th near Beatty, Oregon, has burned over 395,000 acres and is currently 38% contained. (Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)

Good wildfire news?

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
Bootleg Fire burns in Bly, Oregon. The Bootleg Fire has has spread over 212,377 acres, making it the largest among the dozens of blazes burning in the western U.S. fueled by record temperatures and drought. The extreme drought-hit western United States braced for more wildfire destruction July 16, 2021 as efforts to contain a vast blaze scorching southern Oregon failed to progress, and dangerous dry lightning storms were forecast in California. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A wildfire is making its own weather

Matthew Rozsa
Visitors hike the Vernal Fall trail in Yosemite National Park, California. Yosemite is among California's biggest tourist destinations. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Wildfire season forces forests to close

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
Mammoth Lakes is a town in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. It's known for the Mammoth Mountain and June Mountain ski areas and nearby trails.Mammoth Lakes is a town in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. It's known for the Mammoth Mountain and June Mountain ski areas and nearby trails. ( iStock / Getty Images)

Wildfire anxiety is on the rise

Astra Lincoln - Undark
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The charred remains of the Gates Elementary School, which was being used as a staging ground by firefighters, are seen after the passage of the Santiam Fire in Gates, Oregon, on September 10, 2020. (KATHRYN ELSESSER/AFP via Getty Images)

How to stop future wildfires

Matthew Rozsa
Sparrows taking flight (Getty Images)

Unexplained mass bird deaths in N.M.

Matthew Rozsa
he Maria Fire burns on a hillside as it expands up to 8,000 acres on its first night on November 1, 2019 near Somis, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

"What a climate disaster looks like"

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
The wildfire spreads on August 19, 2020 in San Mateo, California. (Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images)

Wildfires, coronavirus collide in Cali

Nicole Karlis
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RFS Firefighters battle a spot fire on November 13, 2019 in Hillville, Australia. Catastrophic fire conditions - the highest possible level of bushfire danger - have eased across greater Sydney, Illawarra and Hunter areas thanks to a slight cool change, however dozens of bushfires are still burning. A state of emergency, as declared by NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Monday, is still in effect, giving emergency powers to Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons and prohibiting fires across the state. (Sam Mooy/Getty Images)

Australia's cataclysmic wildfire season

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
This undated image provided by journal Science shows a campsite in Pucuncho Basin. Stone tools and other artifacts have revealed the presence of hunter-gatherers at about 14,700 feet above sea level, between 12,000 and 12,500 years ago in the Peruvian Andes. (AP Photo/Science, Matthew Koehler) (AP)

How humans kicked off a new age of fire

Kate Yoder - Grist
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The design flaw at the core of humanity

Judith Schwartz - Alternet
(AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

Fires rage in Northern California

Matthew Rozsa
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A fisherman drives a boat near Ilulissat, Greenland. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool, File)

Greenland wildfire

Eric Holthaus - Grist
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West coast heat wave

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central
Mary Pauline Lowry

A hotshot firefighter's story

Anthony Swofford
Firefighter Kathleen Calvin looks around as she sits atop her fire truck while waiting to begin work as smoke from a wildfire fills the sky behind Saturday, July 19, 2014, in Winthrop, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Lindsay Abrams
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