ecological succession
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Rare Colorado Wildfires in December Force Thousands to Evacuate
A series of rare December wildfires coupled with raging winds of more than 105 mph (169 kmh) forced the evacuation of thousands in Northern Colorado on Thursday. It’s the latest freak weather calamity to unleash chaos in a bizarre December of chock full of them.
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Woman Charged With Starting Wildfire Says She Was Just trying to Boil Some Bear Piss
A California woman charged with igniting the destructive Fawn Fire has a rather strange explanation for the blaze. This is all a huge mistake, you see. She was just trying to purify bear piss-contaminated water by boiling it.
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Smoke Blots Out the Sun as Canada’s Wildfires Worsen
The Canadian province of British Columbia is on fire. Hundreds of fires are burning out of control across the region, and smoke from the blazes is turning the skies black in the middle of the day.
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Smoke From Siberian Wildfires Has Reached the North Pole
Siberia is a famously cold place. But since May, it’s been extremely hot and extremely on fire. Those wildfires are so extreme that they’ve sent smoke streaming to the North Pole, and the plume is expected to reach Canada later this week.