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“It would be so much easier to let me go/Let me keep on wandering down my lonely road.” These are the lyrics from Nate Smith’s “Love Is Blind,” a country ballad that accompanies a dramatic and intense scene between Love Is Blind cast members Izzy and Stacy on the fifth …

Nearly one month after ravenous wildfires swept through the Hawaiian island of Maui, families and individuals impacted by the natural disaster are still in need of extensive support. Over 100 people have died from the fires, hundreds remain missing or unaccounted for, and thousands more have been displaced. The People’s …

Six days in, the wildfire on the Hawaiian island of Maui is one of the deadliest in U.S. history. The flames started on Aug. 8, and spread quickly, soon encompassing major residential areas and leaving evacuating residents plagued by spotty information and hazardous roadblocks, the Associated Press reports. The death …

Over the past several years, increasingly destructive hurricanes, wildfires, blizzards, and other extreme weather events have made it clear that the effects of climate change aren’t some future hypothetical, but our current reality. Not to be outdone, the summer of 2023 has been coming in hot —literally — with July …

I n the summer of 2013, the Stanislaus National Forest was as pretty as a postcard. Pristine lakes gleamed bright blue against the dramatic, glacier-carved granite cliffs, and from certain angles you could believe the Ponderosa Pines went on forever. But this was a precarious kind of beauty: By August, …

Shawn Mendes is back, returning amidst a whirlwind of wildfires and a reported break-up, with a new song, “What the Hell Are We Dying For?” Mendes teased the song Thursday before its midnight release with the extremely pointed cover art — a photo of the New York City skyline barely …

Wildfires raging in Canada shrouded the East Coast in smoke this week, leading to hazardous air quality that has led cities to cancel outdoor events. The unprecedented rash of fires is a clear result of climate change, but nothing — not even a post-apocalyptic orange tint or the ever-present smell …

Al Gore once told me, “When it comes to climate change, everyone has an ‘oh shit moment’ — that moment when it gets real, when they realize what is at stake.” East Coasters are having an ‘oh shit moment’ right now. You look up at the sky and it’s orange, …

The smoke and haze from raging wildfires in Canada covered the eastern United States this week, prompting air quality warnings across the eastern seaboard. New York City’s skyline is barely visible in pictures from the St. George Tower in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon. Orange skies in New Jersey on Tuesday …

Wildfire smoke from Canada is now blanketing the East Coast, creating some of the worst air quality in the world. The official explanation for these strange conflagrations — lightning strikes across unusually dry forests, igniting more than 100 out-of-control blazes in Quebec alone — hits many smooth-brained denizens of the …