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The Fight Over Logging on U.S. Public Lands Isn’t Done Yet

Despite an Oregon court ruling in January invalidating a rule that enabled clear cutting, it’s far from the last salvo in the battle for how to fight fires or manage forests—and who can profit from it.

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

The burned remains of a timber operation in Molalla, Ore., on Sept. 13, 2020, after the Riverside Fire swept through the area. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images
A street is inundated with floodwater during a King Tide event on Jan. 3 in Corte Madera, Calif. Credit: Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

A California Climate Expert Is Working to Restore Climate Risk Scores Deleted by Zillow

By Claire Barber

Remnants of the a massive battery fire that took place a year ago lie behind a guarded gate at Moss Landing Power Plant. Credit: Claire Barber/Inside Climate News

A Year Out From One of the World’s Largest Battery Facility Fires

By Claire Barber

A farmer uses a tractor to plant soybeans on land near Dwight, Ill., on April 28. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Unpredictable Spurts of Dry and Wet Weather Cause Confusion and New Challenges for Midwestern Farmers

By Katie Cerulle

This Altadena home was exposed early to the Eaton Fire in January. The location of burning palm trees in front of the windows may have created a radiant heat exposure. Credit: Courtesy of Yana Valachovic

A Debate Heats Up over California’s ‘Zone Zero’ Rules to Cut Home Losses to Flammable Vegetation

By Blanca Begert

Nicholas Spada stands in front of an instument panel at UC Davis’ Crocker Nuclear Laboratory with a radiation exposure monitor prominently pinned to his shirt’s pocket on March 25.

Nicholas Spada Spent Months Analyzing Smoke From the LA Fires. He Thinks People Have a Right to Know, and ‘Air Is Everything.’

Story and photos by Nina Dietz

Smoke fills the landscape as a wildfire continues to grow on June 10 in Squamish, Canada. Credit: Nav Rahi/AFP via Getty Images

The Tricky Problem of ‘Zombie’ Fires

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

A television crew is shrouded in smoke from the Jones Road fire on April 24 in Forked River, N.J. Credit: Adam Gray/Getty Images

As Wildfires Increase, NJ Considers the Impact on Public Health

By Anna Mattson

Winter Reign (center) and Brendan Armm (right) regroup with their children, River and Leaf, as they clean their Pacific Palisades home on April 6 after it sustained smoke and soot damage from the Los Angeles wildfires.

A Neighborhood Burned, a Home Saved, a Future in Question

Story and photos by Nina Dietz

Parham Azimi, a Harvard University researcher, checks an outdoor air monitor which has been collecting samples for the last week outside Nicole Bryne’s house on April 1 in Pasadena, Calif. Credit: Nina Dietz/Inside Climate News

After the LA Fires, Scientists Study the Toxic Hazards Left Behind

Story and photos by Nina Dietz

A school bus was thrown onto the roof of the former Winterboro High School building in Talladega County, Ala. during this weekend's severe weather. Credit: Courtesy of NWS Birmingham

Severe Weather Warnings Persist After a Deadly Weekend of Tornadoes, Dust Storms and Fires

By Keerti Gopal, Lee Hedgepeth

Firefighters put out a hot spot on Palisades Charter High School as multiple wildfires spread throughout Los Angeles on Jan. 7. Credit: Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

School Disruptions from the LA Fires Hit Latino, Disadvantaged and English-Language Learners Hardest, Experts Find

By Liza Gross

Emergency services respond to a brush fire in Inwood Hill Park on Nov. 13, 2024 in New York City. Credit: Alex Kent/Getty Images

NYC’s Inwood Hill Park Looks Ahead After a Fall Fire Season

By Ayanna Dickinson

Flames and smoke rise from the Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility after a fire erupted on Jan. 16 in Monterey Bay, Calif. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

Moss Landing Battery Fire Leads to Health Fears, Evidence of Contamination and Concerns About Overreaction

By Dan Gearino, Kiley Price

The Windy Fire blazes through the Long Meadow Grove of giant sequoia trees in California’s Sequoia National Forest on Sept. 21, 2021. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Fire Once Helped Sequoias Reproduce. Now, it’s Killing the Groves

By Caroline Marshall Reinhart

NATO Report Outlines Growing Climate Risks to Global Security

By Kiley Price

Low Wages and Health Risks Are Crippling the U.S. Wildland Firefighting Forces

By Kiley Price

Residents near the Moody unauthorized dump site continue to worry about health impacts caused by the underground fire. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Forever Chemicals From a Forever Fire

By Lee Hedgepeth

The ocean stores much of the emissions released by human activities, but it is reaching a tipping point, research shows. Credit: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images

Singapore to Build World’s Largest Facility that Sucks Carbon From the Sea

By Kiley Price

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