Why is California burning? “We dug ourselves into a deep, dangerous fuel imbalance due to one simple fact. We live in a Mediterranean climate that’s designed to burn, and we’ve prevented it from burning anywhere close to enough for well over a hundred years.
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The Stories of Notre Dame, as Told by Timber and Limestone
‘“Notre Dame will come out of this experience enriched,” she says. “And so will we.”’
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California Burning
A year after the Camp Fire, Tessa Love contemplates home, California’s undoing, and what it means to belong.
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Fire Sale: Finance and Fascism in the Amazon Rainforest
From global capital to YouTube, carbon credits to indigenous land defenders in their own words, Will Meyer has compiled a reading list on who lit the match and how the fire might be stopped.
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Concealing a Catastrophe: ‘The Day the Music Burned’
“The vault fire was not, as UMG suggested, a minor mishap, a matter of a few tapes stuck in a musty warehouse. It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business.”
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The Portrait of the Artist as a Criminal
Max Harris didn’t cause the warehouse fire in which 36 people died, yet he’s being held responsible for it.
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150 Minutes of Hell
A harrowing and heartbreaking reconstruction of a deadly fire tornado that tore through Redding, California during the Carr Fire earlier this summer. The fire killed eight people and ruined more than 1,000 homes.
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A Song for the River
In the mountains of southwestern New Mexico, a seasoned fire lookout watches as his beloved forest and his personal life burn, and he tries to imagine what will arise from their ashes.
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‘I Love What Human Voices Do Together’: An Interview with Neko Case
Neko Case talks about collaboration, women warriors, women inventors, men with excellent falsettos, losing her home to a fire, and feeling lucky in ‘a great sea of loss.’
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‘I Love What Human Voices Do Together’: An Interview with Neko Case
Neko Case talks about collaboration, women warriors, women inventors, men with excellent falsettos, losing her home to a fire, and feeling lucky in ‘a great sea of loss.’