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Yet another reality of a warming planet is the increasing pace and scale of wildfires. Their deleterious impact creates conditions…
A year already marked by record-smashing heatwaves, catastrophic storms, and deadly flash floods is forcing business leaders to reckon with…
The air in the Upper Midwest is so thick, ‘if you have a nice pork loin you can hang from a tree, it’ll turn into ham’
Much of the Upper Midwest on Saturday was dealing with swaths of unhealthy air because of drifting smoke from Canadian…
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 film The Birds is believed to be inspired by real events. In 1961, along the shores of…
From Washington to Utah and Florida, several state governors enacted laws this year to better prepare for wildfires and extreme…
The health impacts of being exposed to air pollution from wildfires can last for months, even after a fire has…
A firefighter’s frustration with scrambling to fire hydrants for water sparked an idea: Meet the Heli-Hydrant
CABAZON, Calif. (AP) — Mark Whaling and a crew raced up and down a hill in a tanker truck as…
LA lawsuits accuse insurance companies of colluding to ‘suddenly and simultaneously’ drop coverage in fire-prone parts of California
Two lawsuits filed in Los Angeles allege major home insurance companies have colluded to limit coverage in California communities at…
A Pacific Palisades resident purchased a million-dollar burned lot for his daughter while he rebuilds too, so ‘grandpa and grandma will be just down the block’
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Maui’s mayor wants to ban Airbnbs to make housing more affordable for locals. Researchers say it could cause an economic shock
HONOLULU (AP) — An unprecedented proposal from Maui’s mayor to phase out vacation rentals would alleviate a severe housing shortage aggravated by…











