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Big Southern California wildfire being contained, with minimal new activity

MORENO VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters working in high heat patrolled for hotspots and built control lines around a large wildfire smoldering in the interior of Southern California on Tuesday.The Rabbit Fire remained at just under 13 square miles (33.6 square kilometers), with 45% ...

CLIMATE GLIMPSE: Here’s what you need to see and know today

Through smoky, yellowed air, they watch as the fires burn at the edge of their city. In Mandra, an area just west of Athens, Associated Press photographer Petros Giannakouris captured Greeks standing on a ridge and looking on as firefighting helicopters deployed to three large wildfires eating ...

Bison attack visitors in North Dakota and Wyoming national parks

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A bison severely injured a Minnesota woman on Saturday in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, the National Park Service said in a <a href="https://www.nps.gov/thro/learn/news/visitor-injured-by-bison-thro.htm">statement</a> on Tuesday.Park ...

Officials worry about confusion with Alaska’s tsunami-warning alert system

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Confusion around an emergency alert received by Alaska residents in areas not at risk of a potential tsunami after a major weekend earthquake could shake public confidence in the warning system, local officials said.A magnitude 7.2 earthquake about 70 miles (111 ...