Wildfires have burned more than 100,000 acres in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. Fighting them were professionals and homeowners with garden hoses.
The loss of frozen ground in Arctic regions is a striking result of climate change. And it is also a cause of more warming to come.
At least 34 people have been killed after a river in eastern Uganda burst its banks, sending thick sludge and rocks barreling into homes.
One region alone - Yakutia - has 5 million tons scrap metal dumped in polar regions, an ugly Soviet legacy.
Elsewhere in Russia’s coldest region desperate authorities spike clouds to induce rain and tame wildfires.
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