California Burn Pattern Stuns As Diablo Winds Drive Fires
California faces a trio of massive fires in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara counties as wildfires surge after deadly Sonoma and Thomas fires. Gov Brown calls the trend the new normal amid climate change while USGS geologist Jon Keeley cites Diablo winds shifting from onshore to northeast gusts up to 75 mph driving the blazes.
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California
Los Angeles
Sonoma County
San Francisco
Santa Barbara
San Bernardino
Jerry Brown
Jon Keeley
U.S. Geological Survey
Pacific Ocean
Keeley
Bel-Air fire traced to homeless camp near Sepulveda
Fire officials traced the Bel-Air blaze that destroyed six homes and damaged a dozen others to a cooking fire at a nearby homeless encampment along Sepulveda Boulevard under the 405. Investigators found evidence of occupancy but no suspects. The Skirball fire grew quickly, burning over 400 acres and reaching 85 percent containment within a day.
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Los Angeles
Bel-Air
Sepulveda Boulevard
Los Angeles Fire Department
Peter Sanders
Sanders
Arctic data gap highlights Barrow warming surge
Barrow Alaska the northernmost U S city shows a rapid temperature rise with October up 7.8 degrees November 6.9 and December 4.7 since 2000 as NOAA notes Arctic warming outpaces global trends and sea ice loss accelerates.
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NOAA
Barrow
Alaska
United States
Arctic Ocean
Arctic
Earth
North Pole
Deke Arndt
Andra
Scientist abandons US for France after Paris accord stance
Christopher Cantrell, a 62 year old atmospheric chemist at the University of Colorado, moved to France following President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate accord. He cited dwindling US science funding and welcomed Macron's bid to attract US researchers through a grant program named Make Our Planet Great Again. He said the shift was not political, but a response to funding realities and policy directions.
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Paris
Christopher Cantrell
Donald Trump
United States
France
Trump
Emmanuel Macron
Cantrell
University of Colorado
Reuters
End of life care varies by region and race in the US
Using Dartmouth Atlas data, the piece ranks areas by end of life care quality, noting hospital deaths and physician visits in the last year. It highlights hospice underutilization, longer hospital deaths in some regions, and racial disparities in advance care planning and hospice use.
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Dartmouth Atlas
Ogden
Utah
Manhatan
Cedar Rapids
Owa
Los Angeles
Regional ranking cites best places to die by region
A study ranking nearly 300 regions uses seven factors including hospice use and in-hospital deaths, highlighting Grand Rapids Appleton Sarasota Ogden Dubuque Asheville Cedar Rapids Petoskey Green Bay St. Joseph as top cities and Las Vegas Miami Stockton East Long Island Honolulu Newark McAllen Bronx St. Petersburg as least favorable. It notes physician practices shape hospice enrollment and that advance care planning remains uncommon, urging broader awareness and action.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Appleton
Wis
Sarasota
Fla
Ogden
Utah
Dubuque
Iowa
Asheville
N.C
Cedar Rapids
Petoskey
Green Bay
St. Joseph
Las Vegas
Miami
Stockton
Calif
East Long Island
N.Y
Honolulu
Newark
N.J
McAllen
Texas
Bronx
Manhattan
St. Petersburg
MacPherson and Parish
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Coalition To Transform Advanced Care
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Parikh
University of Pennsylvania
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Philippe Geneve
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Jewelry and Object
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