The Atlantic: The East Coast Will Not Escape Fire.

The psychological toll of fighting wildfires will only grow as warmer, drier conditions fuel more severe, erratic blazes. Yet resources devoted to understanding and preventing suicide risk among wildland firefighters are scarce.

“Preparing for future threats, like dwindling freshwater supplies or irreversible ecosystem damage, will require transformational changes that involve rethinking how people build homes, grow food, produce energy and protect nature”

>"Even previously unaffected countries likely to see uncontrollable blazes, says study, which calls for shift to spending on prevention"

>"Worsening heat and dryness could lead to a 50 percent rise in off-the-charts fires, according to a United Nations report."

"Despite the rise of headline-grabbing megafires, fewer fires are burning worldwide now than at any time since antiquity. _...Read More_

YES! "Thinning of trees in overgrown forests, combined with prescribed, or controlled, burns of accumulated dead vegetation on the forest floor, can help achieve the goal of reducing the intensity of wildfires by removing much of the fuel _...Read More_

>"A historic drought and record-breaking heatwaves combined to spark blazed that burned nearly 7.7m acres this year"

"Catastrophic climate change is a terrifying reality for a generation of children more likely than ever to experience disastrous _...Read More_

>"Alarm grows about climate change in British Columbia after summer wildfires wiped out vegetation that could have slowed flooding"

>"Wildfires and faulty rules are wreaking havoc for California's carbon offset program, potentially unraveling its climate progress."

>"The Alisal fire west of Santa Barbara quickly spread to thousands of acres as it burned down to the Pacific ocean"

>"SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters and numerous studies credit intensive forest thinning projects with helping save _...Read More_

Two lightning-sparked wildfires in California have merged and made a run to the edge of a grove of ancient sequoias, briefly driving away firefighters as they tried to protect the world’s largest tree by wrapping its base in protective _...Read More_

"Efforts underway to protect General Sherman and other giant trees from wildfires threatening Sequoia _...Read More_