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Oregon's Bootleg Fire is so big it's generating dangerous fire clouds and firestorms that can spark their own lightning
When heat from wildfires rises skyward, it can create fire clouds and pyrocumulonimbus storms - eno…
Aylin Woodward
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Wildfires and record temperatures in Canada are generating 'fire-breathing' pyrocumulonimbus thunderstorms
When heat from wildfires rises skyward, it creates pyrocumulonimbus clouds - enormous thunderheads …
Aylin Woodward
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Biden says he'll increase the 'ridiculously low' pay of federal firefighters, who can sometimes make $20,000 less than state firefighters
In the San Francisco Bay Area, a federal firefighter's starting salary is more than $20,000 less th…
Hannah Towey
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Take a look at some of the lakes in California that have been swallowed up by the 'megadrought,' hitting record low levels
California is experiencing one of its worst droughts in years. The dry weather has turned massive l…
Grace Kay
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How aerial firefighters are trained to fight forest fires
We spent three days with Bridger Aerospace, where pilots trained in the company's signature firefig…
Clayton Dyer,Graham Flanagan
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Climate disasters in the US broke records in 2020. Scientists may now know why: Earth was the hottest it has ever been.
2020 was likely the hottest year ever on Earth. A warming climate is linked to more intense hurrica…
Aylin Woodward,Morgan McFall-…
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Here we go again: Yes, there's a clear link between wildfires and climate change, despite what President Trump keeps saying
"I don't think science knows, actually," Trump said of the link between wildfires and climate chang…
Susie Neilson
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Smoke from the West Coast wildfires is causing hazy skies in New York and even reaching as far as the Netherlands
Hazy skies have been seen in Wisconsin, Maine, New York, and DC. Larger fires send smoke high into …
Susie Neilson
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Fashion influencer's photo shoot amid California wildfires stokes outrage
Colette LeClair updated the caption on her photo to clarify that she "loves" San Francisco and foun…
Margot Harris
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Trump hasn't said a word for weeks about the record-breaking fires ravaging California, Oregon, and Washington — all Democratic strongholds
The president hasn't even sent a tweet addressing the deadly, record-breaking fires devastating the…
Eliza Relman
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Only satellites can capture the horrifying scale of the fires raging across the West Coast — here's video from space
Fast-growing wildfires in California, Oregon, and Washington have forced thousands to flee their ho…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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As wildfires sweep through California, COVID-19 impacts the state's ability to rely on inmate fire crews
The reduction of inmates available to serve in hand crews due to early release because of the c…
Frank Carber
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California's Apple Fire has burned more than 28,000 acres. A 'vehicle malfunction' caused the blaze.
The Apple Fire is burning in California's San Bernardino National Forest. Evacuation orders for Riv…
Inyoung Choi
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US report indicates broad risk of COVID-19 at wildfire camps
They found testing every firefighter before they started work reduced the coronavirus risk most si…
PTI
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Trump offered to help Putin put out the wildfires ravaging Siberia
7.4 million acres of Siberian woodland - a patch of land equivalent to the size of Maryland - has s…
Bill Bostock,Bill Bostock
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Satellite photos show massive swaths of the Arctic engulfed in flames by 'unprecedented' wildfires
Several reports released this week confirmed that June was the hottest month on record. The US Nati…
Rosie Perper,Rosie Perper
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President Trump blames deadly California wildfires on 'gross mismanagement of the forests'
To the south, on the outskirts of Los Angeles, two smaller fires also started Thursday and are now …
Graham Rapier
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California officials are urging residents to avoid hiking during an intense heat wave after a woman died on a Santa Monica trail
Authorities have since announced that hiking trails along the Santa Monica Mountains will be closed…
Amanda Krause
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New satellite photos of California's wildfires show the furious, deadly evolution of the disasters from space
The Camp Fire, which is located north of Sacramento, quickly burned the entire town of Paradise to …
Dave Mosher
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The Southern California fires are part of an incredibly long and destructive wildfire season
In California, scientists have reported that climate change exacerbated the multi-year drought that…