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Wildfires

The sky has an eerie red and yellow glow in parts of Oregon and California as the region battles the record blazes.
The last thing the president said about California's catastrophic wildfires was in mid-August, when he blamed the state for not keeping its forest floors clean.
James and Kathryn Murdoch said they were “disappointed with the ongoing denial” after months of devastating fires in Australia.
Wildfires burned around the world this year from Australia to California and the Amazon. These forest blazes are part of nature but climate change is making them more frequent and more intense.