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2025 costliest year on record for wildfires, study finds
2025 costliest year on record for wildfires, study finds Wildfires accounted for 38 per cent of all insured natural hazard losses globally - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments Wildfires caused more financial damage in 2025 than in any other year, with catastrophic fires in the US, South Korea and Europe killing about 90 people and forcing roughly 300,000 to evacuate, a new study found. Wildfires accounted for 38 per cent of all insured natural hazard losses globally in 2025 – more than...
The secret underground system keeping the Grand Canyon alive
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Smoke engulfed their cities. Did it make their children sick?
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The back-channel bid to go soft on Maduro
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Ocean collapse triggered ancient wildfires, research suggests
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Wildfires are reversing America's progress on ozone pollution
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AI is blowing up music. How should the Grammys handle it?
Today I’m talking with Harvey Mason Jr., who is CEO of the Recording Academy — that’s the outfit that puts on the Grammy Awards. I last talked to Harvey in 2024, when it was obvious that generative AI would upend the music industry, but still not exactly clear how that would happen. Well, it’s been 18 months since that conversation, and you’re going to hear Harvey say that AI is now “omnipresent” in music production. And Harvey knows what he’s talking about — he is himself a legendary...