Burning Forests, Burning Nations
Columnist Hadani Ditmars recounts meeting strangers at the beach during fire season in British Columbia and finds Syria and Turkey are shared homelands.
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Climate Disasters Hasten the Advent of a World Refugee Crisis
Novelist Omar El Akkad ("What Strange Paradise", "American War") warns that wildfires and other climate disasters are creating the conditions for a global refugee crisis the world is not prepared for.
FIRE: An Abbreviated Reading List
Here are a few staff picks in a very short list that could benefit from having us add your own fire-related titles. Come on, light our fire.
Poem: An Allegory for Our Times
Jenny Pollak, a poet in Australia, captures the unrelenting menace of a changing world.
Reconsidering Thoreau in a Burning World
Megan Marshall on living with things lost in the Caldor Fire and revisiting Henry David Thoreau.