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Photo depicts a silhouette of California firefighters battling a lightning-caused fire in 2020.
September 3, 2025

Lightning from thunderstorms rolling through Central California on Sept. 2 ignited numerous wildfires, including several large fires in the Sierra Nevada foothills that had burned more than 19 square...

A sign posted on a tree in Eastern Europe warns of active land mines.
July 24, 2025

More than 100 million land mines remain buried around the world, posing a threat in approximately 70 countries and territories, and killing or injuring about 5,000 people, most of them civilians,...

Instructor Kristen Hogue works with a class of high school students in New York City.
May 28, 2025

Recently, more than 150 students at 10 high schools in Los Angeles, New York City and Washington, D.C. completed Climate Justice, a UC Merced course , through a unique partnership between the...