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Alex Ip
Dec 30, 20221 min read
Sweet Sixteen: Some Cool Charts We Made in 2022
Inspired by a similar year-in-review piece from FiveThirtyEight, here are some of the most interesting charts we made in the last 12 months.


Richard Bednarski
Aug 2, 20225 min read
How a Local Journalist Reported on the Dixie Fire in His Backyard
I knew the Dixie Fire was unprecedented. I knew that climate change had a role in its massive size. I also knew that not all of it was bad.


Richard Bednarski
Jul 12, 20229 min read
Are Our Sierra Nevada Towns Destined to Go Down in Flames?
Nearly twenty years after I left town, wildfires are posing a whole new threat to my homeland.


Kristen Vogt Veggeberg
Apr 16, 20229 min read
Perspective: A River Silenced
The fire was within the mountains, within the earth.
It was never meant to leave.
But it did.


Lena Beck
Jan 15, 20228 min read
Fire Changes Everything It Touches. We Can Change, Too.
“The bottom line is, for Montana this year, those [1,863] that were human-caused, very realistically might not have happened at all."
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