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Dozens Of Homes Burn As California Wildfire Siege Continues

A small wildfire that swept through a mobile home park and left dozens of homes in ashes is the latest in a series of explosive blazes propelled by gusts through Northern California.

A home burns on Jeters Road as the Dixie fire jumps Highway 395 south of Janesville, Calif., on Monday, Aug. 16, 2021.

Winds Drive Nation's Largest Wildfire Toward California City

Firefighters face more dangerously windy weather as they struggle to keep the nation's largest wildfire from moving toward a Northern California county seat and other small communities.

The Dixie Fire in Northern California is about the size of San Diego and has more than 5,800 workers on scene. It's the second-largest active fire in the country as of Saturday.

Western Wildfires May Take Weeks To Months To Contain

The Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon, the country's largest active blaze, could reach full containment in October. Until then, officials say, wildfire conditions will only continue to intensify.

Diane Nelson and her husband Rick, discuss the approaching Caldor Fire that threatens their home on Fallen Leaf Lake near South Lake Tahoe, Calif., Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021.

Massive Fire Threatens Lake Tahoe, More Ordered To Flee

People have been told to flee from a long section of the Lake Tahoe shoreline as a huge forest fire threatens to push into the resort region straddling California and Nevada.

Panchavarnam rents a pushcart to sell coconuts. "During the lockdown, we suffered a lot," she says. "It struck me then how little we had saved. For the first time, I was terrified of the future."

A coconut seller and a day laborer reflect on life in astoundingly unequal India

It's one of the world's most unequal countries, says a new report. And the gap between rich and poor is getting worse. Two workers who each make less than $5 a day describe what their lives are like.

The Wizard of New Zealand, also known as Ian Brackenbury Channell, casts a "spell" during a television interview in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March 2011. His contract with the city will end in December after more than two decades.

A New Zealand city is taking its official wizard off the payroll after over 2 decades

The Christchurch City Council will end its contract with Ian Brackenbury Channell, reportedly the world's only state-appointed wizard. The "Wizard of New Zealand" has had a long and unique career.

Pope Francis, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Portal Welby and Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew a meeting of prayer in the Basilica of St. Francis on September 20, 2016.

Pope Francis And Other Christian Leaders Are Calling For Bold Climate Action

The world's most prominent Christian leaders issued a rare joint statement calling for government climate action. What that will look like in the U.S. is unclear.

A jogger runs in extreme heat under high tension electrical lines in the North Hollywood section of Los Angeles on Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020.

California Residents Urged To Conserve Power Amid Heat Wave

California residents were asked to voluntarily conserve power again on Friday as the heat wave that is baking the U.S. West strained the state's energy grid and raised the possibility of rotating outages.

Sixteen-year-old Sofia (left) and 13-year-old André Oliveira stand in Parque da Paz in Lisbon. The siblings are two of six young people in Portugal who are suing the governments of Europe's most polluting countries, including their own, to force them to cut emissions.

These Portuguese kids are suing 33 European countries to force them to cut emissions

Adults "can see us as serious or they can see us as a joke," one of the kids says. "A lawsuit is not a joke," her brother adds. The European Court of Human Rights has fast-tracked their 2020 lawsuit.

An ivory-billed woodpecker specimen is on a display at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. Death's come knocking a last time for the splendid ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 assorted birds, fish and other species: The U.S. government is declaring them extinct.

The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker And More Than 20 Other Species Have Gone Extinct

Government scientists warn climate change, on top of other pressures, could make such disappearances more common.

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