Deep within the trunks of an ancient grove of big-cone Douglas fir trees lie traces of a megadrought 450 years in the past. But signs of the worst drought these trees have ever seen can now be found just beneath their bark.
Two prescribed burns got out of control, becoming New Mexico’s largest recorded wildfire. But despite the backlash, experts say it’s necessary to thin forests in a region primed for destruction.
More than 95 million people from Southern California to western Pennsylvania and as far south as Florida are under an excessive heat warning or heat advisory, meteorologists said.
Temperatures will rise well above 100 degrees in large swaths of California, Nevada and Arizona through the weekend. Meteorologists are warning residents to prepare now.
