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Their Recent Response To The Maui Wildfires Has Many Calling Baby2Baby “The Red Cross For Kids”

Twelve years ago, Norah Weinstein and Kelly Sawyer Patricof set out with a shared vision to build something for children that would meet their...

Deadly Heat Threatens the Well-Being of 1 Billion People in India

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.A year ago, extreme heat waves in India killed dozens of...

Mast Reforestation is using drones, nurseries and carbon offsets to revitalize land after wildfires

Seattle startup Mast (formerly DroneSeed) takes a high-tech approach to reforestation.Mast ReforestationLast year, the U.S. endured more than 68,000 wildfires, consuming around 7.6 million...

Wildfire Smoke Is Terrible for You. But What Does It Do to Cows?

Other animals on the farm, too, may be vulnerable to wildfire smoke. Horses have massive lungs—the animals are born to run and suck in...

Number of wildfires to rise by 50 percent by 2100 and governments are not prepared, UN experts warn

Climate change and land-use change are projected to make wildfires more frequent and intense, with a global increase of extreme fires of up to...

Wildfires Are Digging Carbon-Spewing Holes in the Arctic

But that insulation is being undone by climate change, which is heating the Arctic four times as fast as the rest of the planet....

Apps are helping people avoid air pollution amid record wildfires, rising temperatures

The Bootleg Fire rages across central Oregon state, in Klamath County, Oregon, in this July 13, 2021 picture obtained from social media.Oregon State Fire...

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