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Fires

Objects of Fire

Oral histories from the California wildfires.

Tessa Love The Believer Jun 2021 20min Permalink

The Day the Great Apes Died

Twenty-five years ago, the tragedy at the World of Primates building broke the city’s heart and raised a loaded question: What, exactly, do we owe the animals in our care?

Sandy Hingston Philadephia Magazine Dec 2020 20min Permalink

Science

They're Among the World's Oldest Living Things. The Climate Crisis Is Killing Them.

California’s redwoods, sequoias and Joshua trees define the American West and nature’s resilience through the ages. Wildfires this year were their deadliest test.

John Branch The New York Times Dec 2020 20min Permalink

Travel

Journeys on the Cuyahoga

Legacy, beauty, and danger, 50 years after the river caught fire.

Sheehan Hannan Cleveland Magazine Jun 2019 20min Permalink

Science

Life on a Shrinking Planet

With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable.

Bill McKibben New Yorker Nov 2018 30min Permalink

Politics Science

The Mothers of All Disasters

How to plan for the most serious of possible natural disasters.

David Graham The Atlantic Sep 2015 20min Permalink

Science World

Firestorm

The story behind the iconic photograph of the Holmes family, hiding in the water amidst violent Tasmanian bushfires.

Jon Henley The Guardian May 2013 Permalink

Horrific Fire Revealed a Gap in Safety for Global Brands

The human lives lost in exchange for cheaper goods.

Jim Yardley New York Times Dec 2012 Permalink

Science

Fire in the Hole

For a half-century fires have burned under Centralia, PA.

Kevin Krajick Smithsonian May 2005 1h30min Permalink