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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)

Wildfires threaten West's drinking water

Sara Reardon - KFF Health News
An American flag is placed amidst the rubble on August 8, 2021 in Greenville, California. The Dixie Fire, which has incinerated more than 463,000 acres, is the second largest recorded wildfire in state history and remains only 21 percent contained. (Maranie R. Staab/Getty Images)

The Dixie Fire disaster and me

Jane Braxton Little - TomDispatch.com
Embers fall around a photographer as the Creek Fire rapidly expands on September 8, 2020 near Shaver Lake, California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Wildfire smoke is a serious health risk

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
Firefighters push down a wall while battling against a burning apartment complex in Paradise, north of Sacramento, California on November 09, 2018 (Getty/Josh Edelson)

PG&E wants to bury power lines

Maddie Stone - Grist
The sun rose over the Duluth Harbor North Breakwater Light on Monday, July 12, 2021. Canadian wildfires have caused smoke to drift in the atmosphere and blanket the Midwest skies with haze this past weekend. This has caused magnificent red sunrises over the last few mornings. Canadian wildfires have caused smoke to drift in the atmosphere and blanket the Midwest skies with haze this past weekend. This has caused magnificent red sunrises over the last few mornings including over Lake Superior and Canal Park in Duluth on Monday, July 12, 2021. (Alex Kormann, Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Wildfire smokes brings dystopian skies

Alexandria Herr - Grist
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)

Wildfires ignite mental health concerns

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Embers fall around a photographer as the Creek Fire rapidly expands on September 8, 2020 near Shaver Lake, California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

The climate apocalypse is already here

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
An American flag is placed amidst the rubble on August 8, 2021 in Greenville, California. The Dixie Fire, which has incinerated more than 463,000 acres, is the second largest recorded wildfire in state history and remains only 21 percent contained. (Maranie R. Staab/Getty Images)

Dixie Fire is moving too fast for alerts

Joseph Winters - Grist
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)

A climate view from California

Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch.com
A highway worker tries to shield himself while walking to his truck in Lubbock, Texas. (John Weast/Getty Images)

Why Texas froze — and California fried

Carl Pope
Smoke from Southern California wildfires drifts through the L.A. Basin, obscuring downtown skyscrapers in a view from a closed Griffith Observatory on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020 in Los Angeles, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

California's karmic debt to the world

Curtis White
Donald Trump | Wildfires in California | Trump rally in Nevada (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump denies Calif. disaster aid request

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
The Glass Fire burns behind Merus Wines vineyards in Napa Valley, California on September 27, 2020. - The Glass fire grew to 2,500 Acres on the evening of September 27. A heat wave and dry winds create critical weather conditions and mandatory evacuations are in order. (SAMUEL CORUM/AFP via Getty Images)

Does wine country have a future?

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)

Why today's wildfires are so severe

Steven C. Beda - The Conversation
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Biden slams Trump's wildfire response

Shannon Osaka - Grist
The wildfire spreads on August 19, 2020 in San Mateo, California. (Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images)

We need to fight fire with fire

Sonali Kolhatkar - Independent Media Institute
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Robert Reich
Golden sun rays beaming through white clouds (Getty Images)

A new climate narrative, built on hope

Jeff Biggers
California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks in front of the hospital ship USNS Mercy (Carolyn Cole-Pool/Getty Images)

Inmate firefighters: A path to turn pro

Joseph Winters - Grist
Firefighter holding an axe in his hand (Getty Images)

We need a national solution to wildfires

Carl Pope
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
Donald Trump | Wildfires in California | Trump rally in Nevada (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Science denial: Sadism, not ignorance

Amanda Marcotte
Sparrows taking flight (Getty Images)

Unexplained mass bird deaths in N.M.

Matthew Rozsa
Firefighters light backfires as they try to contain the Thomas wildfire which continues to burn in Ojai, California on December 9, 2017. Brutal winds that fueled southern California's firestorm finally began to ease Saturday, giving residents and firefighters hope for respite as the destructive toll of multiple blazes came into focus. / AFP PHOTO / MARK RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)

Will forests burn themselves out?

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
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