The United States and Israel launched a major assault on Iran on Saturday, striking targets in at least nine cities and raising fears of a wider regional war. President Trump said the campaign aimed to destroy Iran’s nuclear program and cripple its military, and he framed it as pressure Iran could have avoided by accepting U.S. terms in earlier talks. In Tehran, powerful blasts began in the morning, and witnesses described panic and confusion as residents tried to find safet

Wildfire seasons around the globe are increasingly overlapping, raising concerns that countries may struggle to share firefighting resources when they are needed most. A new study published in Science Advances  found that extreme fire weather conditions are occurring on more days each year, causing fire seasons in different parts of the world to coincide more often. Historically, wildfire seasons have occurred at different times across regions, allowing countries to send fir