As for Germany, Robert Kaplan writes in his illuminating book "The Revenge of Geography" it "faces both east and west with no mountain ranges to protect it, providing it with pathologies from ...

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The blazes are the result of a combination of suburban sprawl in fire-prone areas, fierce Santa Ana winds, dry conditions ...

Everyone knows California is disaster-prone. But wildfires are supposed to be in the hills, not on the beach, and certainly ...

As unprecedented wildfires raged through Los Angeles, some firefighters suddenly lost access to water. City officials called ...

The three areas impacted by the raging wildfires have one thing in common: They sit at the edges of mountain regions the ...

Scientists predict the Pacific Ocean will vanish in 200 million years, forming a new supercontinent named Amasia and ...

Skip Ross, the manager and part-owner of Metsker Maps, started at the store back in 1985, as a fresh college graduate with a ...

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