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Climate change: Europe heat sparks harmful ozone pollution, 'extreme' fire risk

Record temperatures, which scientists say are driven by climate change, are predicted in France and Britain Tuesday as suffocating heat that has gripped southwest Europe and sparked ferocious wildfires moves northwards.

How to save an ancient, giant tree from a wildfire

How to save an ancient, giant tree from a wildfire

The authorities in Yosemite National Park are hopeful that a sprinkler system can save the Grizzly Giant, a more than 200-foot-tall sequoia that dates back at least 2,000 years.
See how the Dixie fire created its own weather

See how the Dixie fire created its own weather

This year’s largest blaze fueled its own firestorms, again and again. The New York Times reconstructed a 3-D model to let you get up close.
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Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other blazes combined
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Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other blazes combined

Siberia is so vast that huge fires can burn without threatening any major settlements, transportation systems or infrastructure — but are still part of a swath of infernos that together are larger than all the other blazes around the world. And that's a lot of CO2 into the air.

Fire devours Greek island's forests; residents urged to flee

Fire devours Greek island's forests; residents urged to flee

Pillars of billowing smoke and ash turned the sky orange and blocked out the sun above Greece's second-largest island Sunday as a days-old wildfire devoured pristine forests and encroached on villages, triggering more evacuation alerts.

Australian wildfires force thousands in Mallacoota to seek refuge on the beach and in the water

Australian wildfires force thousands in Mallacoota to seek refuge on the beach and in the water

Thousands of people in the southeastern seaside town of Mallacoota were forced to seek refuge on the beach and even boats in the water early Tuesday as deadly blazes closed in around the popular holiday destination to create an apocalyptic-looking scene of huddled evacuees under dark-red skies.

Under left and right-wing leaders, the Amazon has burned. Can Latin America reject oil, ranching, and mining?
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Under left and right-wing leaders, the Amazon has burned. Can Latin America reject oil, ranching, and mining?

The social gains of the pink tide were real, and striking. But they were ephemeral, and the cost to the environment was high.
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