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Heatwaves and droughts have decimated some Christmas tree crops, and industry groups are warning of impending shortages: 'Find and buy your Christmas tree early'
Growers have said their Christmas tree crops have been seriously impacted by the effects of climate…
Avery Hartmans
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General Sherman, the world's largest tree, is in the path of raging California wildfires, prompting a desperate effort to save it
The KNP Complex fire is closing in on the Giant Forest sequoia grove in Sequoia National Park, Cali…
Marianne Guenot
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Despite mounting danger, Americans keep moving to the counties at highest risk for wildfires, floods, and droughts
Cities struggling to adapt to climate-driven extreme weather are also getting new arrivals — more p…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Thousands of COVID-19 cases and deaths may have been due to wildfire smoke, new study says
In some counties, the authors found nearly 20% of COVID-19 cases were linked to wildfire smoke. In …
Kelsey Vlamis
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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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Year in review: There were about 57,000 wildfires this year. About 10,000,000 acres burned.
As 2020 winds to a close, firefighters are still struggling to contain three active California wild…
Yelena Dzhanova
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Images from space show California's forests and lakes drying out in a record mega-drought
Satellite images show the climate crisis playing out across the western US. Drought and heat are tr…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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Drought maps show the western US at its driest in 20 years - a ticking time bomb for even more fires and power failures
Key water reservoirs were already alarmingly dry when a heat wave blanketed the western US, straini…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Madison…
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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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A bad hurricane season could be the next headache for businesses already facing a supply shortage
Meteorologists are predicting as many as 20 named storms and as many as five category 3 or stronger…
Natasha Dailey
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An enormous Sequoia tree is still smoldering and emitting smoke months after California's devastating wildfires
Embers from the 2020 Castle Fire continued to smolder from inside the tree, which could be 1,000 ye…
Sophia Ankel
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How worsening wildfire seasons are threatening businesses of all sizes in California and Oregon, from tech giant Apple to small food trucks
Worsening wildfire seasons are a constant threat to small West Coast companies. "Businesses are jus…
Kate Duffy
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The public won't be allowed back to Big Basin Redwoods Park for at least year after wildfires in California made it too dangerous for visitors
Gov. Gavin Newsom toured the park, observing at the forest littered with debris and damage that wil…
Frank Carber
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Wildfires in Northern California led to a rare 'firenado' — a fire and tornado combination — that tore through the region
The National Weather Service issued a fire tornado warning as wildfires raged in Loyalton, Californ…
Zoë Ettinger
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How the $30 million "Super Scooper" CL-415EAF plane was built to fight wildfires
We went inside the Super Scooper to learn how it fights forest fires from the sky and to see how ae…
Clayton Dyer,Graham Flanagan
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Californians are turning to Indigenous groups and their 'controlled burns' to combat the worst wildfire season in history
Indigenous groups like the Amah Mutsun have controlled wildfires with "prescribed" burns for millen…
Austin Meyer,Daniel T. Allen
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I'm a wildland firefighter in Colorado who's been battling blazes and scrambling to save homes. It's hard to have a social life.
"You don't want your entire gender blamed if you mess up. I'm always trying to work hard to prove m…
Justin Higginbottom
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Guy Fieri visited the California Glass Fire base camp to help feed first responders battling the wildfire
On Saturday, CAL FIRE shared a photo of Fieri and the meals his team provided to those working to p…