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Everett Sloane

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Colorado’s Aspen Acres Fire has scorched more than 100,000 acres

A flash flood can turn a dry desert wash into a deadly torrent in minutes

A sudden downburst can slam winds toward the ground with hurricane force

Wildfires can spawn their own thunderstorms and even fire tornadoes

A heat dome can trap deadly temperatures over a region for a week

A wall of wind called a derecho can flatten forests across several states in hours

Rain after a wildfire can turn a burned slope into a wall of debris

Wildfire smoke can threaten towns hundreds of miles from the flames

Storm surge is often the deadliest part of a hurricane before landfall

A wind-driven fire jumped the Spokane River and sent thousands fleeing

Lightning storms flash over Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo about 160 nights each year

Scientists give the Pacific Northwest roughly a 1-in-8 chance of a magnitude-9 quake within 50 years

Antarctica’s Florida-sized ‘Doomsday Glacier’ already drives 4 percent of global sea-level rise

A California supervolcano has bulged upward about two and a half feet since 1978

Great Salt Lake mud is preserving a hidden record of earthquakes along the Wasatch fault

The U.S. is battling 99 active large fires as the season outruns its 10-year average

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