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This week 14 Aug 2026: rural areas are losing one of their traditional advantages over cities, European waterways are attempting to become European walkways, wildfires have unlocked the continent’s hidden World War expansion pack, and American voters continue demonstrating the remarkable human ability to experience a crisis without promoting it on their personal list of…
Over the past week the headlines have been coming in like biblical plagues, if the Bible had been written by CNN’s breaking news ticker: Spain battles record wildfires even as the end of a heat wave brings lower temperatures Fire Season Is Starting Earlier Thanks to Climate Change, New Study Finds Four years after war…
In a development no one saw coming (except maybe Hitchcock), America’s latest wildfire threat isn’t just drought, climate change, or that one guy who thought setting off fireworks in a forest was a great idea. Science has determined that birds aren’t just a nuisance when they poop on your windshield or sing at dawn. Turns…