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From nuclear bombs to climate change the Los Alamos National Laboratory specializes in existential threats, including predicting and preventing wildfires. But now a massive wildfire threatens the historic New Mexico lab itself.

Land managers say expansive U.S. national forests cant be thinned by hand and machine alone.

Land managers say expansive U.S. national forests cant be thinned by hand and machine alone.

Public schools were closed and evacuation bags packed this week as a stubborn wildfire crept within a few miles of the city of Los Alamos and its companion U.S. national security lab — where assessing apocalyptic threats is a specialty and wildland fire is a beguiling equation. Lighter winds on Friday allowed for the most…

The giant, wind-whipped blaze burning in New Mexico has displaced tens of thousands and is on track to become the largest wildfire in the state's history

As howling winds continued to drive the erratic flames forward, a vast New Mexico wildfire was headed toward a ski resort and the 1,000-year-old hamlet of Taos.

Burning now for more than a month, the largest wildfire in the U.S. was spreading toward mountain resort towns in northern New Mexico on Wednesday, pr

As howling winds continued to drive the erratic flames forward, a vast New Mexico wildfire was headed toward a ski resort and the 1,000-year-old hamlet of Taos.

Wildfires are on a furious pace early this year -- from a California hilltop where mansions with multimillion-dollar Pacific Ocean views were torched to remote New Mexico mountains charred by a month-old monster blaze.

Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire crews to split into north, south strategy