wildfires 
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SOURCE: The Conversation
1/12/20
Even for an air pollution historian, these past weeks have been a shock
by Nancy Cushing
City dwellers in southeast Australia have been forced to take a crash course in the finer points of air pollution.
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SOURCE: Origins
November
The Amazon Rainforest under Threat
by Stanley E. Blake
Historian Stanley Blake sketches the long struggle over the Amazon between indigenous peoples and those Brazilians who see it as the key to Brazil's economic future.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
10/30/19
The priceless history inside the Reagan Library, narrowly saved from a fast-moving wildfire
by Gillian Brockell
The article includes tweets and quotes from historians Glenda Gilmore, Douglas M. Charles, Peter A. Shulman, and Kevin Kruse.
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