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  1. los angeles wildfires
    Pictures of a Ruined CityLos Angeles after the fires.
    Photographs by Devin Oktar Yalkin
  2. palisades fire
    Aerial firefighting efforts intensify over the Palisades wildfire in Los Angeles
    What It’s Like Inside a Helicopter Fighting the California FiresDiving into burning canyons with Tanker 47.
    By Jeff Wise
  3. los angeles wildfires
    L.A. Firefighters Brace For Return of Dangerous WindsScenes and news from the first week of the horrifying fire crisis as it happened.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  4. just asking questions
    Los Angeles Shouldn’t Rebuild the Same Way AgainEnvironmental historian Char Miller makes a case for retreating from the hills.
    By Matt Stieb
  5. the city
    Escaping Los AngelesA week of wind, fire, and devastation.
    By Kerry Howley
  6. los angeles wildfires
    The Battle of Malibu in PhotosGoing from burning house to burning house with firefighters.
    Photographs by Sinna Nasseri
  7. los angeles wildfires
    Running From the L.A. Fires With Nowhere to GoScenes from the Pasadena Civic Center, where escapees have gathered to wait out disaster.
    Photographs by Michelle Groskopf
  8. california wildfires
    How Do You Stop a Hurricane Made of Fire?California fights wildfires like wars, but this one may be unwinnable.
    By Jeff Wise
  9. los angeles wildfires
    I Saw the Beginning of HellWhat started as small flames engulfed my city and my life.
    By Lucy Sherriff
  10. palisades fire
    Watching Your House Burn on a Ring Camera“To actually see flames in my yard was very surreal. Like, Wow. My house is gonna be gone.”
    By Adriane Quinlan
  11. this is fine
    The brush fire in Brooklyn's Prospect Park on Friday, November 8.
    Now the Wildfires Are Burning HereThat smell in the air is from brush fires in Prospect Park and the Palisades.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  12. just asking questions
    Will New York See Another Smokepocalypse This Summer?NASA researcher Dan Westervelt explains why Canadian wildfires might not be such a threat this summer.
    By Matt Stieb
  13. wildfires
    Why Are So Many People Still Missing on Maui?Tracking down evacuees is a major problem for officials after a natural disaster — especially when so many are tourists.
    By Matt Stieb
  14. canadian wildfires
    Canadian Wildfires Force Evacuation of Northwest Territories’ Capital CityLess than two weeks after wildfires killed more than 100 people on Maui, northern Canada’s second-largest city isn’t taking any chances.
    By Chas Danner
  15. what we know
    Maui Wildfires Reach Grim Milestone: Live UpdatesThe still-rising death toll has reached 96, making the disaster the deadliest wildfire in the U.S. in more than a century.
    By Matt Stieb and Chas Danner
  16. just asking questions
    There Will Be More MauisClimatologist Nick Bond explains how the combination of high winds and dry grasslands makes for a dangerous wildfire formula, and not just in Hawaii.
    By Matt Stieb
  17. smokepocalypse
    Canada Is on Fire. America Is Choking on Smoke. Is This the ‘New Abnormal’?We talked with forest-fire expert and journalist John Vaillant.
    By Robert Moor
  18. smokepocalypse
    Photos: Smoke Grinds City to a Halt With Relief in SightFor a third straight day, haze caused by Canadian wildfires blanketed the city.
    By Nia Prater
  19. smokepocalypse
    What Wildfire Smoke Does to the Human BodyThe Air Quality Index in New York hit a staggering 352, the worst in the world.
    By Jeff Wise
  20. smokepocalypse
    The East Coast Is Choking On the Hidden Costs of Climate ChangeMany calculations of climate change’s economic costs have failed to account for the impacts of wildfires.
    By Eric Levitz
  21. apocalypse wow
    New Jersey Is BurningWildfire season is starting earlier and not just on the West Coast.
    By James D. Walsh
  22. extreme heat
    Fires Break Out Around London As Heat Wave Sets U.K. Temperature RecordEurope’s historic heat wave is breaking more temperature records while firefighters struggle to contain wildfires in France, Spain, and Portugal.
    By Chas Danner
  23. business
    When Smoke Gets in Your WineGrowers, vintners, and scientists are scrambling to protect California’s prized Napa Cab from the aftertaste of wildfires.
    By Benjamin Wallace
  24. life after warming
    The Return of the Urban FirestormClimate scientist Daniel Swain explains that what happened Thursday in Colorado wasn’t a wildfire, but something potentially much scarier.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  25. just asking questions
    ‘A Fire Age Is Upon Us’Fire historian Stephen Pyne puts the ever-worsening problem of wildfires, and humans’ relationship with fire, into context.
    By Paola Rosa-Aquino
  26. gavin newsom recall
    Gavin Newsom and the End of the California DreamThe recall drive against the governor is something of a joke. But the frustrations with the status quo are dead serious.
    By Patrick Redford
  27. technology
    The West Coast’s Hottest New Trend? Finding Breathable AirApps and sensors are helping people find healthier air, even if that sometimes becomes an unhealthy obsession.
    By Eve Peyser
  28. climate change
    The Sun Is Glowing Red in New York City Because of Wildfires Out WestThe state has issued an air-quality alert as smoke rolls in from 3,000 miles away.
    By Paola Rosa-Aquino
  29. wildfires
    Heat Waves, Major Wildfires Char the West AgainAt over 200,000 acres, the Bootleg Fire is already the eighth largest wildfire in Oregon’s history. More heat is expected this weekend.
    By Matt Stieb
  30. book excerpt
    The Female Inmates Fighting California’s Wildfires“Your feet have a pulse of their own. Your face feels like it’s about to melt off.”
    By Jaime Lowe
  31. wildfires
    West Coast Wildfires: 4.6 Million Acres Burned and CountingAn unprecedented number of large wildfires in Washington, Oregon, and California continue to burn, while smoke literally chokes the region.
    By Chas Danner and Matt Stieb
  32. life after warming
    California Can’t Afford to Wait for Climate ActionThe horrific fires of 2020 are just a preview. No matter what we do, two to four times as much land area will soon burn annually in the West.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  33. wildfires
    California Has a Shortage of Imprisoned Firefighters. That’s Good.Fewer firefighters is a result of fewer prisoners.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  34. life after warming
    California Has Australian Problems NowThe extreme wildfires the state is battling are apocalyptic heralds of climate change. And the scariest part is that they could be worse.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  35. coronavirus
    The Pandemic and Natural Disasters Are Colliding AgainIsaias in the east and the Apple fire in California reveal the potential for disaster, as the pandemic, fire season, and hurricane season all line up.
    By Matt Stieb
  36. fourth of july
    Trump Is Throwing a Mount Rushmore Fireworks Show. What Could Go Wrong?Between the coronavirus and potential for wildfires, experts are warning that the Friday night’s event could spell trouble.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  37. wildfires
    Reagan Library Evacuated As Easy Fire Encroaches26,000 Ventura County residents were evacuated, and flames were 50 feet from the Reagan Library, though firefighters were able to prevent any damage.
    By Matt Stieb
  38. wildfires
    Everything We Know About the California WildfiresHundreds of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate in both Northern and Southern California.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  39. life after warming
    This Is What a Calm California Wildfire Season Looks Like NowA dozen wildfires are burning, and the state is at the mercy of the wind.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  40. wildfires
    PG&E Power Shutdown: Why California Is Going DarkAs many as 800,000 California homes will have their power cut Wednesday in an attempt to avoid wildfires.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  41. from the archives
    Los Angeles Fire Season Is Beginning Again. And It Will Never End.A bulletin from our climate future.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  42. wild fires
    Ryan Zinke Finally Admits That Climate Change Is Making Wildfires WorseDays after saying California’s wildfires have “nothing to do with climate change,” the Interior Secretary changed his tone.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  43. Trump Throws Word Salads at California Wildfire CrisisTrump seems to be expressing solidarity with anti-environmental California Republicans like his friend Devin Nunes, who thinks rivers are an outrage.
    By Ed Kilgore
  44. Searing Temperatures Keep Wildfires Raging in CaliforniaThere’s an “undeniable link to climate change,” one expert said of the many fires currently burning on the West Coast.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  45. tomorrow
    How Did the End of the World Become Old News?This month, the world saw an unprecedented global heat wave, wildfires in the Arctic Circle — and virtually no headlines about climate change.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  46. Deadly Mudslides Are the Latest Natural Disaster to Hit CaliforniaCharred and barren after devastating wildfires, hillsides gave way after heavy rains.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  47. Fire That Burned Through Bel-Air Started at a Nearby Homeless EncampmentHidden under an overpass, a homeless encampment near one of L.A.’s wealthiest neighborhoods sparked a massive blaze last week.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  48. California Wildfires Spread, Closing Freeways and Destroying HomesA new fire that ignited Wednesday morning and shut down the 405 is now threatening Bel-Air.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  49. natural disasters
    California Fires Burn Thousands of Acres, Kill at Least 17Around 20,000 have been forced to flee their homes.
    By Margaret Hartmann and Jen Kirby
  50. crimes and misdemeanors
    Two Juveniles Charged With Arson Over Deadly Tennessee WildfiresAuthorities are considering trying the pair in adult court.
    By Charley Lanyon
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