*In 2016, the Alexandria, Kentucky, police chief talked the city into hiring a social worker — and four years on, the current chief sees the program as indispensable.*

Japan's red pine forests are endangered, and with them the prized matsutake mushroom.

California could protect its buildings from fire with requirements for careful precautions.

More frequent fires outside the cities might result in less intense fires.

*Covid is Widening Educational Inequalities for Children Around the World.*

*Brazilian wetlands fires started by humans and worsened by drought.*

The people who set the fires are criminals who wanted to replace the wetlands with cattle ranching. Due to the drought, the large Pantanal wetland is not wet now.