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The Gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park Is on Fire — In November
A bizarre wildfire has ignited near Estes Park, Colorado, forcing residents to flee at a time of year when they’re usually gearing up for ski lifts to start turning.
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Scientists Found a ‘Magical’ Solution to Fight Dangerous Zombie Fires
The rise of zombie fires is the latest iteration of climate horrors. The world became acquainted with them last summer when fires in Siberia that had been smouldering underground all winter reignited in the summer. They pose a major problem in a warming world, but scientists have come up with a way to extinguish them…
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The Xbox Series X May or May Not Be Catching on Fire, and Microsoft Is Investigating
The Xbox Series X is so hot right now, and I don’t mean figuratively. I mean literally. Some people are claiming that their new Xboxes are catching on fire, but there’s a lot of scepticism over whether these claims are true. As our sister site Kotaku reports, this could be an elaborate hoax.
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The Mystery of the Mouse that Died of Smoke Inhalation, But Went Nowhere Near a Fire
I looked through the microscope at the insides of a dead smoky mouse, and could barely believe my eyes. Thousands of tiny smoke particles lined its lungs. But the mouse had been kept more than 50 kilometres from the nearest bushfires. How could this be? As it turned out, the critically endangered mouse had died…