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After Wilfred, hurricanes will start sounding like fraternities. Here’s why.
The history of hurricane naming is its own unnatural disaster.
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Meet the DIY firestarters trying to save California from itself
The case for letting (some of) California burn.
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Hurricane Sally: Hundreds rescued from floods as storm batters Alabama and Florida
Pensacola, Florida, and Mobile, Alabama, battered as rooftops torn off and more than half a million lose power.
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![One hundred cardboard cutouts of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stand outside the US Capitol]()
Facebook launched a new climate information hub. Here’s how activists reacted.
As you might expect, not everyone is pleased.
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The idea of a ‘natural’ disaster is going up in flames
What's so natural about wildfires and hurricanes these days?
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California inmates fight fires for pennies. Now they have a path to turn pro.
A new bill makes it possible for them to obtain the state license necessary to work in a municipal firefighting department.
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What oil executives say when they think no one’s listening
Secret recording shows they still think they can advertise their way out of the climate crisis.
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‘Climate arsonist’: Biden slams Trump’s wildfire response with a new insult
The presidential candidates just had their first scuffle on climate.
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Will the West’s giant fires spark a climate awakening?
“If this doesn’t open people’s eyes, I don’t know what will.”
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La Niña has arrived. That’s bad news for wildfires and hurricanes.
The conditions that led to a La Niña formation have already influenced this year’s unprecedented hurricane and wildfire seasons.
