Fighting wildfires

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The personal correspondence, photographs and papers of the late convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein have been released to the public in stages, beginning in December 2025, after an almost unanimous vote in the US Senate. The released files run to three and a half ...  Show more

Large scale wildfires have increasingly made headlines in recent years. Fires have devastated areas of California, Australia, Siberia and the Pantanal that used to be relatively unaffected. We speak to two women helping stop the spread of wildland fires, protecting precious ec ...

Fighting fires and stereotypes at the same time - Kim Chakanetsa speaks to two senior fire women in India and the UK.

Dany Cotton joined the London Fire Brigade at 18, just a few years after it opened up to women. She has worked her way up to be the force's first ever ...

Year after year, wildfires have swept through Northern California’s wine and dairy country, threatening the region’s famed agricultural businesses. . Evacuation orders have become a way of life in places like Sonoma County, and so too have exemptions to those orders. Officials ...

Find out who is killing US firefighters in this episode with Diane Cotter and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

A cancer causing chemical sold primarily by two major US corporations is increasing cancer rates among firefighters. Since 2002 cancer has been responsible fo ...