california wildfires
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Watching My Home Country Fall Apart From Lockdown on the Other Side of the World
A few years ago, I read Michel Faber’s novel The Book of Strange New Things. It’s a sci-fi story about a priest who leaves his wife on Earth to travel as a missionary to the distant planet of Oasis. As the novel progresses, the protagonist’s wife sends him a series of dispatches that relate the…
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Climate Change Is Now Killing Birds in Midair
Since this year hasn’t been spooky enough, thousands of migratory birds are now dropping dead across the Southwest.
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While the West Coast Burns, the U.S. Weather Agency Welcomes a Climate Change Denier Onboard
A U.S. scientific agency, tasked with monitoring weather, ocean and water conditions, has hired David Legates, a climate change denier who’s previously maintained that the sun is to blame for global warming and that the ocean’s rising CO2 levels are fine because it means we get bigger crabs, for a top position at the agency.…
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Satellite Captures Awful Scar Left By California’s Historic Kincade Fire
California’s Kincade Fire is into its 30th day, and mercifully the blaze is now mostly contained. The scope of the damage, however, has been extensive, as this disturbing new satellite image reveals.