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When your backyard burns, is anywhere safe? Welcome to World on Fire, a podcast that takes us to the front lines of out of control wildfires in Canada, Australia and the United States. Hosts Adrienne Lamb and Mike Flannigan look at what it takes to find hope in the midst of record breaking heat waves, and communities burning to the ground. Hear from exhausted crews battling wildfire after wildfire and find out why experts say this is just the beginning. Wildfires cost us our health, our homes and our communities, yet people everywhere rebuild and not just survive but thrive.
A metal cabinet survives; you have to remember it stood inside someone's home.
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A northern British Columbia wildfire story about preparedness, prescribed fire, and learning to live with fire.
World on Fire's ninth episode treats wildfire less as a seasonal emergency than as a reality that has outrun the old calendar. Adrienne Lamb begins with memories of evacuee signs, sprinklers that could not hold, and eight people dying while fighting fires, then carries that…
A grounded Earth Day history connecting local pollution fights to the harder politics of climate change.
The first Earth Day comes through as a political turning point, not just a marker on the environmental calendar. Laura Lynch's conversation with one of its founders ties the 1970 movement to public disillusionment over the Vietnam War, electoral pressure on incumbents, and the…
CBC reporters reflect on the weight of covering wildfires as homes are destroyed and communities are displaced.
World on Fire looks at wildfire coverage from the inside, following CBC reporters as they head toward fires while residents are being evacuated.
A close, emotionally steady account of Lytton's wildfire through local voices and Rachel Reimer's responsibility.
World on Fire's Episode 7, "Heat," keeps its attention on the Lytton wildfire in July 2021, when smoke from fires in British Columbia, Montana, and farther south in the United States reached Alberta, and dry weather, roaring winds, and a deadly heat wave made the danger feel…
Books, systems, and the questions that unlock them.
Coastal science, patiently and beautifully reported.
Soil life, climate repair, practical regeneration.
Tim Caulfield says wildfires create "opportunities for conspiracy theories to emerge" and "misinformation to spread".
This episode of World on Fire features a segment from another CBC podcast, What on Earth?, about the first Earth Day in 1970 and current climate activism.
Aaron Collins describes Ron Belrose saying, "your life goes into limbo" after the East Prairie Mansion fire.
World on Fire Episode 7, "Heat," follows the 2021 British Columbia heat dome, the Lytton wildfire, and the evacuation risks facing communities along rail lines and in remote First Nations.
World on Fire episode 6 examines the 2020 wildfire season through Mike Flanagan’s account of record-breaking fires across California and the western United States.
A podcast exploring the science and human impact of increasingly severe wildfires around the world.
An exploration of the science and human impact of increasingly severe wildfires around the world.