The State of Wildfires website provides interactive maps for evaluating 2024-25 global fire season for detailed context (e.g., burned area anomaly by ecoregion shown below) stateofwildfires.com/latest-report/. For tropical Africa, the Congo Basin had one of the most extreme seasons in 2024.

The partisan divide has grown, too. The wealthiest 100 tended to give more to Republicans than to Democrats before last year. But giving to the GOP spiked in 2024, with *84%* of donations going to back Republicans or conservative PACs.

Thank you for this research and for showing how we can learn from the past. — from a nonscientist fan

Where is the magical Judy located? Are you allowed to share?

U.S. taxpayers shelled out about $18 bbbillion for Project Warp Speed to develop the Covid vaccine. Now we have no right to get it.

I just went to CVS in DC to get the Covid shot before going to Europe and discovered that it now requires a prescription, even though I qualify under the new FDA guidelines. Please do a story on public backlash to this costly and senseless restriction on a lifesaving preventive treatment.