It's not just that the forests face natural challenges like invasive beetles or fierce wildfires, challenges exacerbated by climate change.
Sydney was cut off from the north today when fierce wildfires, fanned by strong winds, closed major highways and rail tracks.
LOS ANGELES — Fierce wildfires threatened Southern California for a third day Tuesday after leaving two people dead and heralding the start of the most intense period of the fire season here.
LOS ANGELES — An enormous plume of white smoke, set against an Ansel Adams sky, rose beyond the outfield walls of Dodger Stadium on a scorching Monday afternoon, a reminder of the fierce wildfires that have dug into the San Gabriel Mountains.
Trophy Homes: After fierce wildfires came dangerously close to the community last year, the most expensive houses were easy to spot, as they were sprayed with fire retardant not by their owners, but by their insurance companies, like AIG, to safeguard against huge claims.
Expect Bigger, Fiercer Wildfires In West say experts, reports Alicia Chang and Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press at ABC News.
A21 California Wildfires Fierce gusting winds transformed a small brush fire on Sunday into walls of flame that destroyed 40 structures in Fallbrook, a town in northern San Diego County, and burned thousands of acres at Camp Pendleton.
Think of these two apocalypses as nuclear winter (an effect of nuclear war, not known in 1945, in which even a regional nuclear exchange could devastate the planet) and climate change summer with, as we've experienced this year in the U.S., its extreme weather, fierce droughts, raging wildfires, and rising sea levels.
From unseasonably warm temperatures across Europe and the eastern US, to highly unusual tornadoes ripping across the central US, wildfires and fierce summer heat in Australia and extreme flooding in South America, the world's weather is very much out of kilter.
