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WILDFIRES

A firefighter sprays water to fight a forest fire in the city of Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo State, Brazil, on Wednesday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 13, 2024
A continent ablaze: South America surpasses record for fires
Satellite data has registered 346,112 fire hot spots so far this year, topping the earlier 2007 record of 345,322.
The town of Jasper, Alberta, on Aug. 15 after a wildfire devastated the tourism hot spot
WORLD
Sep 12, 2024
Canada's tourism continues to reel from threat of wildfires
Scientists paint a gloomy future for Canada, with more and larger blazes sparked by a warming climate.
The burnt-out remains of a vehicle in Wrightwood, California, on Wednesday
WORLD
Sep 12, 2024
Los Angeles wildfire explodes overnight, engulfing homes
Three out-of-control blazes have erupted around Los Angeles.
California has ambitious climate policies. But the state should shift more green energy-related costs from electricity bills to taxes to promote fairness and sustainability.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2024
California's crushing power bills challenge its climate goals
California is incredible, but making it livable, what with its droughts, floods, fault-lines and wildfires, has never been cheap.
Burned land along a road following wildfires in Riberaio Preto, in Brazil's Sao Paulo state, on Aug. 27
WORLD
Sep 2, 2024
Amazon jungle fires spew toxic smoke to Brazil’s largest city
A curtain of smoke is spreading across Brazil, making its way to Sao Paulo and possibly heading toward neighboring countries Argentina and Paraguay.
A remote-controlled BurnBot RX1 prototype produces a containment line during a prescribed burn operation in Paicines, California, on Aug. 12.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 30, 2024
Robots are starting (good) fires in California
BurnBot's robot keeps combustion within its burning chamber, where propane torches and air blowers bring flame temperatures up to 1,000 degrees Celsius.
Tourists at a water fountain at the Acropolis archaeological site during extreme hot weather conditions in Athens in July 2023.
BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2024
Extreme weather drives travelers to cooler destinations this summer
Cruise operators, hotel companies and airlines are adding trips and accommodations to meet rising demand for temperate destinations.
The destruction left behind by the Borel Fire near Lake Isabella, California, on July 29
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2024
Wildfires are getting weirder. Case in point: 'firenados.'
Sometimes fire thunderstorms even create their own lightning, which spawns new blazes miles away.
A tree burns as flames and smoke rise from a wildfire burning in the village of Varnavas, near Athens, Greece, on Sunday.
WORLD
Aug 12, 2024
People flee wildfire near Athens as it spreads 'like lightning'
Flames as high as 25 meters swallowed up trees and shrubland Sunday in the village of Varnavas near Athens.
Smoke and flames rise from Park Fire burning near Chico, California, on July 25.
WORLD
Aug 4, 2024
California wildfire now fourth-largest in state history
More than 6,000 firefighters in California's Central Valley continued to battle the largest blaze in the U.S. on Saturday.
A firefighter monitors a controlled burn set along Highway 32 near Chico, California, on Tuesday. A controlled burn helps reduce fuel for the Park Fire.
ENVIRONMENT
Jul 31, 2024
Raging California wildfire grows bigger than city of Los Angeles
Hot and extremely dry weather is expected to prevail in the U.S. areas around the wildfire, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service said.
Trees burn during the Park Fire near Chico, California.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jul 30, 2024
Massive California wildfire hints at bleak outlook for 2024
Two wet winters in a row covered the state in newly-grown grass and brush, then summer arrived with dry air and back-to-back heat waves, turning vegetation to fuel.
The edge of a wildfire near Mistissini, Quebec, Canada on June 12, 2023
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jul 30, 2024
World's forests failed to curb 2023 climate emissions, study finds
That means a record amount of carbon dioxide entered Earth's atmosphere last year, further driving climate change.
Flames and smoke rise from a burning wildfire, as seen from a highway in Jasper, Alberta, Canada, on Tuesday.
ENVIRONMENT
Jul 26, 2024
Wildfire roars through a Canadian town popular with tourists
The town is in the heart of Jasper National Park, which is one of Canada’s premier tourist destinations, receiving about 2.5 million visitors each year.
Smoke from a fires in the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Corumba, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil, on June 12.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jul 24, 2024
From floods to fire: On Brazil's climate front line
Brazil faces months of record wildfires, with devastation already under way and set to worsen in coming months as high heat and winds tear through the midwest.
An aerial view of a burnt area in the Amazon rainforest near the Lago do Cunia Extractive Reserve, on the border of the states of Rondonia and Amazonas, northern Brazil, on Aug. 31, 2022. Brazil recorded 13,489 fire outbreaks in the Amazon in the first half of this year, according to satellite data available on Monday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jul 2, 2024
Brazil's Amazon sees worst 6 months of wildfires in 20 years
They were caused by a historic drought that struck the world's largest tropical rainforest last year, experts say.
A firefighter looks on as smoke rises during a wildfire in Keratea, near Athens, on Sunday.
WORLD
Jul 1, 2024
Greece fights wildfires in the 'most difficult day of the year'
Greece faces a tough wildfire season ahead after its warmest winter and earliest heat wave on record.
A firefighter works in a rural area of Corumba, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil, on Wednesday.
ENVIRONMENT
Jun 27, 2024
'Breathing smoke': Brazil's Pantanal wetlands hit by record fires
In the first half of this year, satellites recorded more than 3,300 fires in the region.
A typhoon hits Hong Kong. Scientists warn that the danger ahead isn’t just from supercharged weather catastrophes. A warmer planet increases the chances of "compound events,” where multiple disasters — natural and manmade — occur at the same time or place.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jun 19, 2024
The era of super-wild weather is already here
Floods, wildfires, droughts and heat waves have become more widespread and volatile than before.
A firefighting plane disperses fire retardant over a wildfire in Puertollano, near Tarifa, Spain, on June 4.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / ANALYSIS
Jun 14, 2024
Airplanes won't solve Europe's wildfire problem, but prevention might.
Climate change is costing Europe tens of billions of euros per year, and that will rise if nothing is done to reduce emissions and invest in prevention.
'Shogun' becomes first non-English-language winner of best drama Emmy
Japanese actress Anna Sawai, winner of the outstanding lead actress in a drama series award for "Shogun," and Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada, winner of the outstanding lead actor in a drama series award for the show, pose in the press room during the 76th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Chris Broad's new bar puts cocktails first, YouTube second
A self-proclaimed lover of great cocktails, YouTuber Chris Broad says his new Shibuya watering hole is more a place to get yourself a solid drink than it is anything related to his social media career.
South Korea is facing deepfake porn crisis
Activists hold up symbolic eye masks during a protest against deepfake porn in Seoul on Aug. 30.
In LDP presidential poll, three kingmakers hold all the cards
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo in January as former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (left) looks on.
Yen strengthens beyond ¥140 per dollar for first time since 2023
Then yen strengthened on Monday beyond ¥140 per dollar ahead of a Federal Reserve policy meeting this week that is widely expected to see officials cut interest rates.
‘Shogun’ and the painstaking art of ‘getting it right’
Hiroyuki Sanada and the cast and crew of "Shogun" accept the award for best drama series at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California.
Japan’s schools battle to keep kids cool, with or without AC
Students sit under a misting system during recess at Hikarigaoka Haru no Kaze Elementary School in Nerima Ward, Tokyo, on Sept. 6.
Chris Broad's new bar puts cocktails first, YouTube second
A self-proclaimed lover of great cocktails, YouTuber Chris Broad says his new Shibuya watering hole is more a place to get yourself a solid drink than it is anything related to his social media career.
In LDP presidential poll, three kingmakers hold all the cards
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo in January as former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (left) looks on.
How China’s dominance of solar and batteries is impacting Japan’s energy transition
Solar panels and wind turbines at a power plant in Hami in China's Xinjiang region. The U.S. and other countries have described China’s actions against Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region, a key cog in the cleantech supply chain, as a genocidal campaign aimed at erasing an entire culture.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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A store clerk tries to cool things down in front of their shop by spraying a hose.
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