America's Rural Lands Are Burning, and Apparently So Is the Usual Fire Narrative
Wildfires are torching rural America, and volunteer ranchers are fighting fires with Vietnam-era bulldozers while their own land and cows go up in smoke.
Wildfires are torching rural America, and volunteer ranchers are fighting fires with Vietnam-era bulldozers while their own land and cows go up in smoke.
BBC World
Greece's twin fires do their best impression of a bad rom-com, Europe's nature reserves are auditioning for disaster movies, and Copernicus confirms summer is now a sauna.
The Guardian
Andy Burnham, the UK PM, is dodging the climate crisis like it's a flying ember, despite five heatwaves, wildfires, and a country on fire. Priorities, right?
The Guardian
July 2026 set records for dryness and heat in England and Wales, with drought, hosepipe bans, and wildfires making summer the season of dehydration.
BBC World
Italy raises heat alert to 'red' for nearly all cities, as Europe sizzles and burns, because climate change is a real party pooper.
BBC World
Three Greek firefighters die tackling wildfires as a fourth heatwave descends on Spain and France, because summer isn't trying to kill us hard enough.
BBC World
Wildfires in France and Spain force over 300,000 evacuations, turn skies orange, and ruin at least one family's vacation budget.
UN News
Wildfires in Europe have increased 57% in four years, burning 2.2 million hectares, forcing mass evacuations, and prompting the WHO to state the obvious: climate change is the culprit.
ScienceDaily
Ferns turned Triassic Europe into a 300,000-year wildfire inferno by acting as perfect kindling, creating a hellish feedback loop of fire and regrowth.
The Guardian Europe
France reports 5,764 excess deaths in June heatwave as wildfires rage across southern Europe - summer is really bringing its A-game this year.
The Guardian Europe
France's climate council says the country is living in kettles, nuclear reactors are shutting down because rivers are too hot, and Europe is once again learning that ignoring climate change has consequences.
NASA
A new NASA study reveals that wildfires and hurricanes are increasingly shaping the U.S. landscape, while human-driven changes decline - nature's way of saying, 'You're not the boss of me.'
The Guardian
Minnesota calls in the National Guard to fight wildfires because winter clearly didn't kill enough trees.
The Guardian
A tornado in Enid, Oklahoma, leaves homes destroyed and at least 10 injured, with a dramatic bathtub survival story and ongoing recovery efforts.
The Good Times
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