Officials from 40 countries met Monday in Berlin, Germany to discuss how to fight climate change as record heat waves and wildfires continue around the world.
Throwing every resource at protecting California's giant sequoias is to deny the climate realities that make the Sierra increasingly vulnerable to wildfire.
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At around 4,440 acres, the Washburn Fire is far from the largest blaze Californians have seen in the past few years. But it has attracted national attention, in part because it's burning near Yosemite National Park's iconic giant sequoia trees.