A Buddhist priest from Japan based in Lahaina on Hawaii's Maui island cherishes a photograph of his place of worship before it was engulfed in the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.
The razing of Lahaina, among other losses from a fiery summer, shattered the illusion that towns, monuments, icons – even our homes – will always be there for us. In this fragile time of climate change and social upheaval, we need to accept that nothing gold can stay
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Off the California coast sits a marine heat wave that has persisted since 2014. Scientists aren't sure whether it's now permanent, or a decades-long blip on the map.