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'Just Insane': Air Quality Soars Above Safety Threshold as California Wildfires Death Toll Rises

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#RakeNews: Finns Ridicule Trump's Claim That They Prevent Fires Like California's by "Raking" Forests

Jake Johnson, staff writer

When asked about the U.S. president's comments, Finnish President Sauli Niinisto laughed and said he never said anything about raking to Trump

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Demands for 'Real Climate Action' as Death Toll From California Wildfires Hits Grim Record

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

A home burns as the Camp Fire moves through the area on November 9, 2018 in Magalia, California. Fueled by high winds and low humidity, the rapidly spreading Camp Fire ripped through the town of Paradise and has quickly charred 70,000 acres and has destroyed numerous homes and businesses in a matter of hours. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

"This is not the new normal. This is the new abnormal," said California Gov...

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New Tool Projecting How High US Cities' Temperatures Will Rise by 2050 Provokes Calls for Climate Action

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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"Within the next 30 yrs, our cities will begin grappling with the harsh...

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Yutu

'Like a Small War Just Passed Through': Super Typhoon Yutu Leaves US Islands in Pacific 'Mangled'

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Hawaiian Island Swallowed Up By Rising Seas After Hurricane Walaka Reveals 'What the Future Could Look Like'

'They're Doing Us Like They Did New Orleans': Anger at Trump Inaction as Hurricane Michael Leaves Millions Without Power and Basic Needs

Phlomena Telker stands on what was her covered porch after Hurricane Michael tore the roof of her home as it passed through the area on October 10, 2018 in Panama City, Florida.

'Wake Up': Climate Campaigners Tell World Leaders Liberation From Fossil Fuel Industry's Grip Only Solution

A satellite image of Hurricane Michael on Wednesday morning ahead of landfall expected in the coming hours.

'We Have a Pit in Our Stomachs': Warnings for Florida Grow as Category 4 Hurricane Michael Intensifies

Hundreds Killed After Catastrophic Earthquake and Tsunami Strike Indonesia

Naomi Klein on Democracy Now! (Photo: Screenshot)

Naomi Klein: A Year After Hurricane Maria, There Is Nothing Natural About Puerto Rico’s Disaster

Rescue workers are searching for dozens of people feared dead

Scores Feared Dead in Philippines After Massive Landslide Triggered by Typhoon Mangkhut

Warnings of 'Catastrophic and Historic' Flooding as Experts Say Worst of Hurricane Florence Yet to Come

Windows of commercial building damaged by typhoon on September 16, 2018 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. City officials raised the storm alert to T10, it's highest level, as Typhoon Mangkhut landed on Hong Kong.

Super Typhoon Mangkhut Rips Through Hong Kong After Pummeling Philippines

In this NOAA satellite handout image , shows Hurricane Florence as it made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina on September 14, 2018. The National Hurricane Center reported Florence had sustained winds of 90 mph at landfall and was moving slowly westward at 6 mph. (Photo by NOAA via Getty Images)

Hurricane Florence Threatens Many Homes That Already Cost the Government Millions

Super Typhoon Mangkhut

'Bigger, Stronger, and More Dangerous' Than Florence, Super Typhoon Mangkhut Strikes the Philippines

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Earthjustice

Nation’s Largest Environmental Law Group Says Catastrophic Wildfires Show Need for Stronger, Faster Action on Climate Change

Center for Biological Diversity

Analysis: San Diego Projects to Put 40,000 People in High Fire-hazard Areas

350.org

350.org on California Wildfires and Need for Climate Action

Physicians for Social Responsibility

Woolsey Fire Burns Nuclear Meltdown Site that State Toxics Agency Failed to Clean Up

National Nurses United

RN Response Network Deploys Nurse Volunteers to Florida to Help Provide Medical Assistance Post-Hurricane Michael

350.org

Over 100 Global Climate Actions Call on World Leaders to Wake Up to 1.5

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Johanna Bozuwa

PG&E: Don’t Break it Up. Take it Over

David C. Fathi

Prisoners Are Getting Paid $1.45 a Day to Fight the California Wildfires

Robert C. Koehler

Gunfire and Wildfire: The New Abnormal

Eric Holthaus

How to Process Climate Grief Over the California Wildfires

Andy Rowell

Olivia Alperstein

We Have 12 Years to Save—or Lose—Our Only Home

Jim Naureckas

USA Today Says Climate Apocalypse Promises a Balmy Winter

Jeremy Lent

We Need an Ecological Civilization Before It’s Too Late

Jeff Biggers

We Need Cities of Resistance: Climate Adaptation Is No Longer an Option

Vijay Prashad

How Disaster Capitalism Has Ruined Puerto Rico

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