By Stuart Braun “These are not just wildfires, they are climate fires,” Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington State, said as he stood amid the charred remains of the town of Malden west of Seattle earlier this month. “This is not an act of God,” he added. “This has happened because we have changed the climate […]
On a Labor Day weekend when the temperature hit 121 degrees in Los Angeles County, fire crews around California struggled to contain ongoing and growing blazes that have so far consumed more than 2 million acres this summer. That’s equal to the entire state of Delaware going up in flames, according to the BBC. The […]
A couple hosting a gender-reveal party on Saturday set off a smoke bomb to reveal the baby’s gender when the device lit the nearby dry grass and sent partygoers scrambling. That mishap has now led to the El Dorado wildfire in Southern California’s San Bernardino County, according to The Washington Post. According to a statement […]
By Andrea Germanos Especially given the climate-fueled wildfires ravaging the region, conservationists sounded alarm Thursday in response to a Trump administration proposal for an oil and gas lease sale in California, which would be the state’s first such federal auction in eight years. At issue are over 4,300 acres of public land in Kern County, […]
One of the many wildfires raging through California has destroyed a sanctuary for endangered condors, and the fate of at least four of the birds remains unknown. The Dolan Fire on Friday scorched an 80-acre condor sanctuary operated in Big Sur by the group Ventana Wildlife Society, the San Jose Mercury News reported. In the […]
By Sean Fleming You probably can’t outrun a forest fire. They can travel at speeds of up to 22 kilometers per hour (up to 14 miles) and are dangerously unpredictable. The fires currently tearing through parts of northern California include the second and third largest in the state’s recorded history, have seen 200,000 people asked […]
A California resident has been diagnosed with plague, the state’s first case of the deadly disease in five years. The patient is a hiking enthusiast and South Lake Tahoe resident whom public health officials think may have been bitten by a flea while walking their dog, El Dorado County Health and Human Services reported Tuesday. […]
President Donald Trump wanted to cut off wildfire relief money to California because the state did not support his political goals, a former administration staffer has claimed. In a scathing campaign ad released Monday by Republican Voters Against Trump (RVAT), former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Miles Taylor said that […]
While California has several microclimates that make the temperatures and weather patterns in various parts of the state wildly different from each other, few areas were left unaffected by the extreme heat that has blanketed the state. In Southern California, triple-digit temperatures have taxed the power grid so much that utilities had to impose rolling […]
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