The Uplifting Note of the Summer Firestorm Season

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Climate science tells us that wildfire seasons are getting longer and more severe because of hot, dry weather. There's a new normal here where places that aren't accustomed to bad wildfire smoke might be seeing a lot more days like this one. And when I interview experts in this space, they are surprisingly upbeat because this is a problem we have the solutions to take action on.

For the second time this month, huge sections of the US are blanketed by wildfire smoke. Vox’s Rebecca Leber and climate journalist Jeff Goodell say we’re gonna have to get used to it.

This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Miles Bryan, Hady Mawajdeh, and Amanda Lewellyn, engineered by Michael Raphael, and hosted by Noel King.

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