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Every other Friday, the Outside/In podcast team answers one listener's question about the natural world.This week’s question comes from Rebecca, from the Bay Area of California.

Hilary Franz hates to be the bearer of bad news, but … “this year is positioning itself to be the worst wildfire season in Washington state’s history,” says our Director of Natural Resources. “Firefighters who’ve been doing this work in Washington for over thirty years have said ‘we haven’t seen conditions like this ever.’” So far, Washington’s battled about 1,700 fires — nearly as many as we faced in all of 2018, and 2021’s fire...

A series of major wildfires across the world has hit the headlines - how do they compare to previous years?

Date Time Share Research exposes big differences among Amazonian countries in their rates of forest recovery as well as deforestation Bangor University Large-scale forest restoration in the Amazon is an important “nature-based solution” to climate change, a major focus of the UK-hosted UN Climate Change COP26 Conference in November. Forest recovery, the process of new forest growing on land that has previously been deforested then abandoned from agriculture, can rapidly capture large quantities of the greenhouse gas CO ­ 2 from the atmosphere. It is key to the success of global climate ...

A spring day on the University of Washington campus.Dennis Wise Twenty scientists and engineers at the University of Washington are among the 38 new members elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences for 2021, according to a July 15 announcement. New members were chosen for “their outstanding record of scientific and technical achievement, and their willingness to work on behalf of the Academy to bring the best available science to bear on issues within the state of Washington.” Current academy members selected 29 of the new members. An additional nine were elected by virtue of j...