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Calmer weather Thursday gives NM firefighters a chance to gird for 'historic' high winds
Conditions in New Mexico are expected to be exacerbated Saturday through Tuesday by extreme wind, dryness, elevated temperatures and dust.
Could Colorado’s extreme winter wildfires happen in California? ‘Absolutely,’ Cal Fire official says
Cal Fire says that the length of California’s fire season has increased an estimated 75 days across the Sierra, driven mostly by climate change.
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UK: National Trust maps out climate threats to historic places
The map will help to plan interventions such as tree planting and peat bog restoration.
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Has the Forest Service been making wildfires worse?
The logging industry has long promoted science suggesting logging suppresses fire. A lot of recent research disagrees.
www.cbc.ca
Mumbai braces for its 1st cyclone in over a century
A cyclone in the Arabian Sea was barrelling toward India's business capital Mumbai on Tuesday, threatening an area already struggling with coronavirus infections and deaths.
www.kqed.org
PG&E pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter in deadly Camp Fire
Utility giant PG&E says it will pay $4 million and plead guilty to 85 criminal counts in connection with the 2018 Camp Fire.
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Goat fire brigades are credited with helping to save the Reagan Library from going up in smoke
The mainly Boer goats have names like Vincent Van Goat and Selena Goatmez and love to eat “noxious weeds and other invasive species that fuel wildfires.”
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