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Mega-fires

Combustion Engines

On any given day last summer, the smoke-choked skies over Missoula, Montana, swarmed with an average of twenty-eight helicopters and eighteen fixed-wing craft, a blitz waged against Lolo Peak, Rice…

There Will Always Be Fires

by Scott Sayare,

The pinhal interior, a wooded region of hills and narrow hollows in rural central Portugal, used to be farmland. Well into the latter half of the past century, the fields…

As the World Burns

by Harper’s Magazine,

If it seems as though the world’s on fire, that’s because it is. Wildfires are starting earlier in the dry season and burning for longer. As of October 2017, European…

Living in the Vanguard of Climate Change

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Richard Manning

How mega-fires—and the blinkered perspectives demanding flawed management of them—are raising the stakes for everyone

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Combustion Engines

There Will Always Be Fires

As the World Burns

Living in the Vanguard of Climate Change

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