wildfires
Venezuela fights record wildfires during climate-fueled drought in Amazon
April 3, 2024“Everything is indicating we’re going to see other events of catastrophic fires — megafires that are huge in size and height."
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El humo de los incendios forestales de California afecta el doble a las comunidades indígenas
March 15, 2024Las comunidades indígenas de California están expuestas a niveles desproporcionados de partículas en cantidades mucho mayores de lo que se pensaba anteriormente, según un nuevo estudio.
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California wildfire smoke affects indigenous communities nearly two times more than expected
March 4, 2024“Analyses spanning 2006 to 2020 revealed that Native American and Alaska Native, multiracial, and non-Hispanic white populations had consistently disproportionate outdoor wildfire PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] exposure."
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How Maui’s wildfires became the country’s deadliest in more than a century
August 17, 2023The grisly scenes are easy to understand "in the age of global warming," Hawaii’s governor said.
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Washington state wildfires endanger animals, homes, crops, renewable energy farms
July 25, 2023"It's a firefighter’s worst nightmare because the humidity is dropping precipitously. The winds are picking up. And so the fire carries extremely fast.”
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