New Mexico wildfire now ranks as largest in state history

A wildfire burning for 40 days in New Mexico on Monday became the largest in the Southwestern state’s recorded history as it forced the evacuation of a small ski resort and villages in drought-hit mountains east of Santa Fe. Driven by relentless winds, the blaze has torched an area approaching the size of Los…

Its already too late: Villages in Bangladesh bear the brutal cost of climate change

With each tide, Abdus Satter watches the sea erode a little more of his life. His village of Bonnotola in southwestern Bangladesh, with its muddy roads and tin-roofed houses, was once home to over 2,000 people. Most were farmers like the 58-year-old Satter. Then the rising seas poisoned the soil with salt water. Two…