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(AP Photo/Noah Berger) (CN) — California has experienced some of its worst fire seasons in recorded history the past few years, but one source of solace is that by January residents can finally relax until mid-summer.  Not so this January, as four fires in Santa Cruz County sparked by high winds prompted evacuations Tuesday while PG&E enacted another round of preemptive power shutoffs in select areas of the state. Cal Fire crews also responded to a fire in San Mateo County on Tuesday afterno...

Jan 18, 2021 By most accounts, 2020 has been a rough year for the planet. It was the warmest year on record, just barely exceeding the record set in 2016 by less than a tenth of a degree according to NASA’s analysis. Massive wildfires scorched Australia, Siberia, and the United States’ west coast – and many of the fires were still burning during the busiest Atlantic hurricane season on record. “This year has been a very striking example of what it’s like to live under some of the most...

Hounded by Wildfires, Californians Rethink Their Willingness to Rebuild In the aftermath, some people are deciding to just begin new lives elsewhere. The pandemic and longstanding housing problems haven’t made the choices any easier. By Debra Kamin Published Jan. 15, 2021Updated Jan. 17, 2021 The day Paradise burned, Aaron Singer was a skeptic. Then he saw the flames in his rearview mirror. This was November 2018, and the Camp Fire, the most destructive wildfire in California history, was mak...

North America: 10th warmest As detailed in a January 12 post at this site by Bob Henson, 2020 for the U.S. was the fifth-warmest year in history going back to 1895. Ten states had their second-warmest year on record and four had their third-warmest year. None of the contiguous 48 states was below-average in temperature in 2020. Figure 1. Departure of temperature from average for 2020, the second-warmest year the globe has seen since record-keeping began in 1880, according to NOAA. Record-high a...

The U.S. has seen numerous climate-fueled disasters in the last four years, just as scientists have made leaps in climate science

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Michael Muir surveys the damage to his Pleasants Valley home, Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. The LNU Lightning Complex Fire destroyed many of the homes in the area. (Robinson Kuntz/Daily Republic) Cleanup after LNU fire will continue into new year VACAVILLE — An apparent lightning strike in Napa County on Aug. 17 raged over Blue Ridge the following night and became the worst fire in Solano County history. Two men lost their lives, 309 homes were destroyed and more than 90...

Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. 2020 was such a terrible, bad, no-good year that even complaining about it got old. A pandemic knocked the world to its knees, killing 1.6 million people so far and leaving untold suffering in its wake. Social distancing kept us inside, away from our friends and loved ones. Businesses shut their doors. Economic inequality grew. Still, not everything was bad. It’s been a very good year for bread, hand sanitiz...

Creek Fire update: After four months, California’s largest single fire is 100% contained [The Fresno Bee] Dec. 25—With a positive shift in weather conditions, the Creek Fire that burned nearly 380,000 acres around Big Creek, Huntington Lake, Shaver Lake, and Mammoth Pool was declared 100% contained on Christmas Eve by fire officials with the Sierra National Forest. The Creek Fire, which started in the early evening on Sept. 4 near Big Creek, is the fourth largest wildfire and largest single...

USNI News Top Stories 2020: Marine Corps Operations December 23, 2020 11:14 AM Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Austin McBain, a fire support specialist with 1st Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, I Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) Information Group, monitors a radio during exercise Summer Fury 20 in Yuma, Ariz., on July 14, 2020. US Marine Corps Photo This post is part of a series of stories looking back at the top naval news from 2020. 2020 was a turning-point year for the Marine Corps. After previewi...

Californias August Complex Fire surpasses 1 million acres burned By (0) Sawyers with the Billings IA, a Bureau of Land Management Initial Attack crew based in Billings, Montana, take a brief respite before they continue to prepare a road for burnout operations at the August Complex Fire, which became the first blaze in Californias history to burn 1 million acres. Photo by Spc. Michael Ybarra/U.S. Army/UPI | License Photo Oct. 5 (UPI) -- The August Complex Fire in California became the first b...