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Ben Christopher CalMatters En los días posteriores al incendio de Los Ángeles en enero pasado, legisladores estatales y líderes cívicos prometieron impulsar la reconstrucción de las zonas afectadas. Para California, donde la tramitación de permisos y la construcción de viviendas son notoriamente lentas y costosas, la magnitud de la...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters In the days immediately after last January’s Los Angeles firestorm, state lawmakers and civic leaders promised to turbocharge the rebuilding effort. For California, where the permitting and construction of homes is infamously slow and costly, the scale of destruction stood as a singular challenge. A year...
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A medida que el cambio climático calienta el planeta, los incendios forestales se han vuelto tan impredecibles y extremos que se inventaron nuevas palabras: firenado, gigafire, fire siege e incluso fire pandemia. California tiene 78 “días de incendio” anuales más (cuando las condiciones son propicias para que se produzcan...
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As climate change warms the planet, wildfires have become so unpredictable and extreme that new words were invented: firenado, gigafire, fire siege — even fire pandemic. California has 78 more annual “fire days” — when conditions are ripe for fires to spark — than 50 years ago. When is California’s wildfire...
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The horror of the massacre went viral. The teenage murderer was not content with cold-bloodedly massacring 10 patrons of the Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and injuring a similar number, but instead transmitted the grotesque images through a video camera mounted on his military helmet. Most of the...