ImpactsState Farm/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ ‘Coral are going to die’: Maui wildfires take toxic toll on marine ecology Contaminants from the fires could damage marine life, and hardy non-native grasses might grow and kindle the next fire.
Opinion Big Stock Photo David Wallace-Wells: The age of the urban inferno is here Increasingly, fires emerging hotter and more intense from the natural landscape are burning human structures not as collateral but as fuel