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Michael Kodas

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Michael Kodas, of Boulder, Colorado, is the author of Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame, which won the 2018 Colorado Book Award for General Nonfiction and was named one of the 20 best nonfiction books of 2017 by Amazon. He is also the author of High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed, which was named Best Non-Fiction in USA Book News’ National Best Books Awards of 2008 and was the subject of a question on the game show Jeopardy!. He is the former Deputy Director of the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder. As a photojournalist at The Hartford Courant he was part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage in 1999. He has also been honored with awards from the Pictures of Year International competition, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition and the National Press Photographers Association. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Denver Post, Newsweek, the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick documentary The Vietnam War and many other print, online and broadcast outlets.

In Chernobyl, a Ukrainian technician in 1998 checked a spot with a Geiger counter in the forest outside the damaged nuclear plant, which burned in a wildfire in 1992, six year after the worst nuclear accident in history. The fire burned 667 acres. As a consequence, the radioactive fallout was released in smoke aerosols and transported various distances while radioactive ashes remained on the site. Credit: Patrick Landmann/Getty Images.

Chernobyl Is Not the Only Nuclear Threat Russia’s Invasion Has Sparked in Ukraine

By Michael Kodas

Firefighters use a back burn to try and control the Carr fire as it spreads towards the towns of Douglas City and Lewiston near Redding, California on July 31, 2018. The fire swept over the Iron Mountain Mine Superfund site, threatening to release corrosive chemicals into the watershed and contaminate Redding's water supply. Two firefighters were killed fighting the blaze and a 70 year old woman and her two great-grandchildren perished when their Redding home was swallowed by the flames. Credit: Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images

Fueled by Climate Change, Wildfires Threaten Toxic Superfund Sites

By Michael Kodas, David Hasemyer

In August 1910, hundreds of wildfires exploded over an area the size of Connecticut in the Bitterroot Mountains of Idaho and Montana. Credit: U.S. Forest Service

Huge Western Fires in 1910 Changed US Wildfire Policy. Will Today’s Conflagrations Do the Same?

By Michael Kodas

A firefighter douses flames as they push towards homes during the Creek fire in the Cascadel Woods area of unincorporated Madera County, California on September 7, 2020.

A Siege of 80 Large, Uncontained Wildfires Sweeps the Hot, Dry West

By Michael Kodas

A firefighter from Carpinteria monitors the huge plume from the out-of-control Apple fire along Bluff Street, north of Banning during the coronavirus pandemic on August 1, 2020 in Cherry Valley, California. Credit: Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Ge

The Fires May be in California, but the Smoke, and its Health Effects, Travel Across the Country

By Evelyn Nieves, Michael Kodas

A fire truck drives through flames as the Hennessey fire continues to rage out of control near Lake Berryessa in Napa, California on August 18, 2020. Credit: JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images

California and Colorado Fires May Be Part of a Climate-Driven Global Transformation of Wildfires

By Michael Kodas

Expedition co-cruise leader Matt Shupe, left, and Marcel Nikolaus join MOSAiC expedition leader Markus Rex, right, in front of Polarstern icebreaker. Credit: Esther Horvath/Alfred-Wegener-Institut

Video: Dreamer who Conceived of the Largest Arctic Science Expedition in History Now Racing to Save it

By Anna Belle Peevey, Michael Kodas

Credit: Esther Horvath/Alfred Wegner Institute

The Largest Arctic Science Expedition in History Finds Itself on Increasingly Thin Ice

By Michael Kodas

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