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US
Burns From Scorching-Hot Sidewalks and Roads Are Rising, and Can Be Fatal
The risk of serious contact burns is increasing as temperatures soar and as more people move to the desert Southwest.
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World
Gas Tanker Explosion Kills More Than 40 in Liberia
After the tanker overturned in an accident, people gathered around the vehicle trying to scoop up fuel before it caught fire and exploded.
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World
‘It’s Like Our Country Exploded’: Canada’s Year of Fire
When the fires came to Yellowknife, the nearest safe-harbor city was more than 600 miles away, a full day’s drive through dense smoke and flammable, nearly uninhabited forest in the infernal midst of Canada’s worst wildfire season on record. And ...
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Science
How Megafires Are Remaking the World
On Aug. 15, a small wildfire was detected in the hills above West Kelowna, in British Columbia. The landscape was parched and the wind was fierce, and over the next few days the modest blaze exploded into a raging conflagration. It raced down into ...
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US
After 7 Weeks in Burn Unit, Another Maui Fire Victim Dies
Laurie Allen had to run through a wall of flame to escape the August wildfire. Doctors went to extraordinary lengths to try to save her.
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World
What’s Happening With the Quran Burnings in Sweden
The country has found itself caught between outrage over anti-Muslim actions and its commitment to free speech. Denmark has also wrestled with the same tensions.
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Newyork
A Grim Climate Lesson From the Canadian Wildfires
You may have forgotten about the Canadian wildfires, once the smoke cleared from your American lungs and the orange disappeared from American skies. But the fires have not forgotten to burn. In Quebec, more land was torched in June than in the ...
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World
Swedish Embassy in Baghdad Is Set Afire Amid Protests Over Quran
Episodes of Quran burning in Sweden have angered many in the Muslim world and drawn condemnation from the country’s authorities.
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Newyork
Over 1,000 Trains Derail Every Year in America. Let’s Bring That Number Down.
The recent freight train derailment and chemical fire in eastern Ohio that left thousands of nearby residents fearing for their health was not a one-off tragedy or a random life-imitating-art manifestation of Don DeLillo’s classic novel “White Noise ...
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News
Can My Building Ban Incense Even if It’s a Religious Ritual?
While you are entitled to practice your religion in your apartment, you are not entitled to disturb your neighbors.