On AlterNet: wildfire

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "wildfire"

As Fire Rages at Los Alamos National Lab, Plans in the Works to Build a Plutonium Bomb Factory

Subhankar Banerjee, ClimateStoryTellers.org. July 5, 2011.

Los Alamos National Lab is proposing to build a massive plutonium bomb factory -- and that has many nearby residents concerned.

How the West Was Lost: The American West in Flames

Chip Ward, TomDispatch.com. June 16, 2011.

Climate change isn't happening in some distant future. Wildfires in Arizona and Texas remind us that global warming is right here, right now.

Lightning Strikes: Get Used to Catastrophic Wildfires and Worse

Scott Thill, AlterNet. July 18, 2008.

In California there were 8,000 lightning strikes in one event, and that was months before fire season. There is more of that in store across the West.

Global Warming's Twin Evil: Wildfires and Drought

Dr. Reese Halter, AlterNet. June 30, 2008.

The 850 fires burning in California alone should be a wake up call that we're unprepared for rapid climate change.