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BY DAN JOLING ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A type of tree that thrives in soggy soil from Alaska to Northern California and is valued for its commercial and cultural uses could become a noticeable casualty of climate warming over the next 50 years, an independent...

DENVER (AP) – The upcoming wildfire season across the U.S. isn’t expected to be as bad as last year’s infernos, when a record 15,800 square miles burned, the nation’s top wildland firefighting official said Wednesday. But parts of the nation should...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — California, Hawaii, Alaska and the Southwest face an above-average threat of wildfires this summer, but most of the country should see normal or below-normal problems, forecasters said Sunday. The National Interagency Fire Center...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP/WANE) — Fleeing police, a driver gunned a gray Honda Civic through a street barricade and into a crowd of South By Southwest festival attendees early Thursday, killing two people, injuring 23 others and casting a pall over one...

In this concluding part of his report, KUNLE FALAYI writes on the challenges facing cocoa and rice production and lack of capacity of farmers in the face of huge market for the crops Continued from last week An illicit crop fuelled by high consumption...