We're quite susceptible to earthquakes. We've just had wildfires.
This is an image of wildfires in the Alaskan Interior.
Rotational grazing can even help prevent wildfires by keeping grasslands in good condition.
Olshany, Russia: Charred trees remain standing after wildfires passed through the area.
The wildfires during the summer of 1988 were the largest in the history of the park.
A second source of carbon monoxide is Alberta, Canada, where large wildfires are burning.
There are wildfires in the south-west and water restrictions in the south-east.
More than 80 people are dead as a result of the worst wildfires in Australia in a quarter century.
The goal, then, is to encourage landowners to do more to prevent wildfires from starting and spreading.
In September wildfires swept through the town of Bastrop, outside Austin, destroying more than 1, 000 homes.
The Russian heatwave is blamed for nearly 800 wildfires, more than 500 of which are still burning.
The timber and other building materials have been buried in the sandy soil to reduce the amount of radioactivity dispersed by wildfires.
The heat has caused widespread drought, ruined crops and encouraged wildfires that have blanketed Moscow in smog and now threaten key nuclear sites.
Russia's summer misery continued, as forest wildfires spread across large swathes of the country. At least 48 people have been killed.
Southern California faces more ferocious heat coupled to the threat of thunderstorms and lightning strikes that could ignite more desert wildfires.
On Thursday, authorities reported 345 wildfires in the country in the previous 24 hours, including 70 that resulted in damage to private property.
Fossil charcoals tell us that wildfires have been part of life on Earth for as long as there have been plants on land. That's more than 400 million years of fire.
There are wildfires in the south-west and water restrictions in the south-east. Fields are scrubby and fallow, and in some counties the ground is riddled with deep cracks.
Between the years 800 and 1300, while Europe was still slogging its way through the dark ages, the California sequoias were enduring a dry shift in the climate that sparked more wildfires.
Drought conditions and high winds have fueled destructive wildfires in northern Mexico and the southern U.S. plains states, especially Texas, where dozens of homes have burned in recent days.
We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence.
If a lot of things can't be seen, then you'll find that people and things that you don't see are always in front of you, like that bushes of weeds, wildfires, and spring winds blowing again. Since we can not stop them from being born, we should not curse them.
