#Fires

Palangkaraya is on the front line of an environmental crisis that has cloaked much of the region in a toxic haze

This article was originally published by Grist, in partnership with The Intercept, and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Thousands of students have staged days of demonstrations across Indonesia protesting the government’s response to toxic haze that has blanketed multiple cities and several other nations in Southeast Asia.

From off-the-scale fires in Indonesia to disruptions to the Panama Canal, predictions that this year’s El Niño would hit hard are panning out.

The risk didn’t begin with the flames. Researchers are examining how fires impacted a community already harmed by development and colonialism.

Emissions on both sides of the island are unusually high as human-set fires spread in a landscape parched by drought.

Emissions on both sides of the island are unusually high as human-set fires spread in a landscape parched by drought.

This article was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Luke Reimer fires the Brumbies back in front against Moana Pasifika in Canberra.

Years wildfire scares, parents are left wondering if their children's chronic illnesses began with what was in the air before they were born.

At least five people have been injured – with one in critical condition – after an inferno erupted at Robbins Lumber mill in Searsmont, about 90 miles from Portland, at around 11 a.m.

A baby-faced politician was named the mayor of a blue-collar New Jersey township just one week after the two-term incumbent botched the response to a 14-alarm fire that forced a mass evacuation.

A wild Tesla crash in Chino Hills on Wednesday sparked a wildfire threatening hundreds of homes.

An electrical fire erupted at Penn Station Thursday morning, snarling LIRR service, officials said.

The mahogany-colored sandstone and shale cliffs that tower over the Pacific Ocean resemble a wall of massive tree trunks, chiseled by thousands of years of wind, rain, and surf. The optical illusio…

“I tried to thank him that night, and he’s just shrugging it off, like it’s just another day at work, but that’s my little daughter,” Rachel Blaylock said after the co…

Daniel Santana, 45, was charged with murder, arson and manslaughter in connection to the early May 6 fire that erupted in an apartment building with a ground-floor deli on Third Avenue near East 14…

The Yakima man, 34, pleaded guilty to four counts of arson on federal land and single counts of setting fire to timber and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

The tragic detail was revealed as accused firebug Victor Arias, 29, was arraigned in Manhattan court on three counts of criminally negligent homicide for the May 4 inferno — then freed on supervise…

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