Fires

Wildfires killed two people in New Mexico, burned 20,000 acres, and left widespread destruction in the village of Ruidoso. Then the flash floods came.

A massive fire in Texas has burned more than half a million acres of land. The Smokehouse House Creek Fire is the second-largest fire in the state's history, prompting evacuation orders in counties there and in Oklahoma.

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Thousands of workers in southern Pakistan spend their lives mining and cooking limestone. The process releases plumes of toxic smoke, polluting the environment and poisoning workers.