Millions of California residents were exposed to a high concentration of airborne toxic metals, a new study discovered. As homes ignited and burned down during the 2025 Los Angeles fire, millions of California residents were exposed to a high concentration of…
Millions of Los Angeles residents were exposed to a toxic cocktail of lead and other dangerous metals during the devastating 2025 Eaton Fire, with lead concentrations soaring to 80 times normal levels, a new study has found. Researchers at Caltech published the…
A fire has been reported at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina. The 310-square-mile site produced plutonium and tritium for use in the manufacture of nuclear weapons from its inception in the early 1950s until the end of the…
Having worked in fire safety and emergency response for almost 50 years, I have seen extraordinarily brave people fight increasingly extreme wildfires with inadequate tools for communication and coordination. The establishment of the U.S. Wildland Fire Service gives us a chance to…
Hundreds of Northern California households could lose power this weekend as utility giant PG&E warns of another potential round of shutoffs amid fears that powerful winds could spark wildfires. The company is considering cutting electricity to portions of seven…
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Thousands of students across Indonesia have protested for days over the government’s response to toxic haze that has blanketed multiple cities and spread across Southeast Asia in recent weeks. On Friday, more than 500 protesters gathered outside the Central…
JAKARTA, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Indonesia remains on high alert for wildfires despite a decline in hotspots over the past week, with the sporadic rainfall still not enough to put them out, a disaster agency official said on Thursday, as students on…
BIG SUR, Calif. (RNS) — When a landslide closed a section of Big Sur’s Pacific Coast Highway in early 2023, Peggy Horan’s commute to work jumped from 40 minutes to about 4.5 hours. Since 1969, Horan has lived in Big Sur, working as a massage…
Here is the latest edition of Democrats being Democrats. California Democrats spent over half of the a billion dollars the US government allocated to wildfire relief funding on low-income housing in the state without requiring the developers to house a…
Shares of several Singapore-listed agricultural companies fell Tuesday after Senior Minister K Shanmugam warned they won't "escape responsibility" for their possible role in the haze blanketing the city-state. "Companies cannot play hide and seek" with different corporate structures, hoping that…
Wildfires in California, the West and abroad: evacuations, firefighters and the fight over forest management.
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