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A wildfire is forcing evacuations east of Milton-Freewater as Oregon’s fire season roars on

By Alexander Clark

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Kilauea just paused after nine straight hours of lava fountaining in episode 54

By Alexander Clark

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Mount St. Helens is quietly rebuilding the dome it blew apart in 1980

By Everett Sloane

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Alaska’s Denali Fault ripped a 209-mile scar in 2002 and could rupture that big again

By Everett Sloane

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7 summer hazards that can turn an ordinary outing into an emergency

By Everett Sloane

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6 wildfire threats satellites and sensors can see beyond the flames

By Everett Sloane

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5 storm formations people confuse when seconds matter

By Everett Sloane

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5 flood barriers built to keep entire cities above water

By Everett Sloane

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A rogue wave can rear up 80 feet out of an otherwise calm sea and vanish in seconds

By Everett Sloane

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The Ring of Fire rings the Pacific with most of the world’s active volcanoes and biggest quakes

By Everett Sloane

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A coal-seam fire has burned under Centralia, Pennsylvania, for more than sixty years

By Everett Sloane

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Mount Rainier could send a wall of volcanic mud racing toward Seattle’s suburbs without even erupting

By Everett Sloane

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A future eruption of Yellowstone’s supervolcano could bury much of the country in ash

By Everett Sloane

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An extreme heat wave has pushed Southern California into dangerous fire weather with critically dry brush

By Everett Sloane

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Tropical Storm Dolly spun up in the open Atlantic as the season’s fourth named storm

By Everett Sloane

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Wildfires around Spokane forced 64,000 people to flee and destroyed more than 700 buildings

By Everett Sloane

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A glacier collapse in the Himalayas sent a wall of debris down a river, killing hundreds and leaving more than a thousand missing

By Everett Sloane

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The Danakil Depression’s acid pools and lava lakes make it one of the hottest places on Earth

By Everett Sloane

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A collapsing Alaska glacier could unleash a megatsunami taller than any skyscraper

By Everett Sloane

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Geologists say the southern San Andreas is ‘locked and loaded’ for a magnitude-8 quake

By Everett Sloane

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