Objects of Fire
Oral histories from the California wildfires.
Oral histories from the California wildfires.
Tessa Love The Believer Jun 2021 20min Permalink
Twenty-five years ago, the tragedy at the World of Primates building broke the city’s heart and raised a loaded question: What, exactly, do we owe the animals in our care?
Sandy Hingston Philadephia Magazine Dec 2020 20min Permalink
California’s redwoods, sequoias and Joshua trees define the American West and nature’s resilience through the ages. Wildfires this year were their deadliest test.
John Branch The New York Times Dec 2020 20min Permalink
Legacy, beauty, and danger, 50 years after the river caught fire.
Sheehan Hannan Cleveland Magazine Jun 2019 20min Permalink
With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable.
Bill McKibben New Yorker Nov 2018 30min Permalink
How to plan for the most serious of possible natural disasters.
David Graham The Atlantic Sep 2015 20min Permalink
The story behind the iconic photograph of the Holmes family, hiding in the water amidst violent Tasmanian bushfires.
Jon Henley The Guardian May 2013 Permalink
The human lives lost in exchange for cheaper goods.
Jim Yardley New York Times Dec 2012 Permalink
For a half-century fires have burned under Centralia, PA.
Kevin Krajick Smithsonian May 2005 1h30min Permalink