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High temperatures next week will be the result of a heat dome, a strong high pressure system of air that descends from the atmosphere and heats up near land.

The Amazon once absorbed more carbon than it released, but it now accounts for more than 1 billion metric tons of emissions every year.

General Motors is warning owners of some older Chevy Bolts to park them outdoors and avoid charging overnight after two vehicles caught fire.

San Diegans being asked to conserve energy as wildfires burn out of control, near a crucial power source for California, in southern Oregon and temperatures soar in northern California. Meanwhile, concerns grow over the Johnson and Johnson vaccine as reports of a severe autoimmune disease have been reported. NBC7’s Catherine Garcia has your Nightly Check-In.

California’s largest utility company has been blamed for half of the state’s most destructive fires since 2015. Now it has a plan to reduce the risk of sparks.

A no-burn order has been issued for large portions of the Southern California Sunday due to higher predicted PM2.5 levels, regulators said Saturday. Wood burning is prohibited effective at midnight Saturday through 11:59 p.m. Sunday for all those living in the South Coast Air Basin, including Orange County and non-desert portions of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, according…

As San Diego grapples with a large homeless population, some turn to canyons and riverbeds for a place to live. NBC 7 Investigates Reporter Mari Payton spoke with a homeless advocate about this issue during the COVID pandemic.

The Chula Vista Fire Department and Police Department are investigating a string of suspicious fires that occurred in Chula Vista within the past week. The suspicious fires first started on September 17 at around 3:30 a.m. Three brush fires broke out in East Chula Vista. One on Lake Crest Drive, another on Telegraph Canyon Road and Buena Vista Way, and…

NBC 7’s Bridget Naso has more details on the strings of fires that police are investigating in Chula Vista.

A vast swath of a vital wetlands is burning in Brazil, sweeping across several national parks and obscuring the sun behind dense smoke.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state was battling “367 known fires” earlier this week.

The Hennessey Fire burning in Napa County is one of several fires burning as part of the LNU Lightning Complex Fire.

San Diego County firefighters responded to several calls of fires that may have been related to fireworks on the Fourth of July holiday.

At least three brush fires started Sunday across San Diego County in Bay Ho, Ramona and San Ysidro. A brush fire started around 4 p.m. in a canyon in the Bay Ho area, near the 4600 block of Leathers Street. The area is surrounded by housing as well as businesses to the west. The fire was initially about 1 to…

San Diego police are investigating a series of five suspicious fires in the Linda Vista and Morena neighborhoods that occurred late Sunday night. The fires were ignited in trash cans, dumpsters, and dry vegetation. One started in a dumpster at Lauretta and Eureka streets, a densely-populated area near the University of San Diego campus. Many living in the surrounding apartments…

The fires were set with 20 minutes of each other and were walking distance apart. NBC 7’s Dave Summers heard reaction from the community.

The Los Angeles Fire Department evacuated residents on Wednesday morning after a fire broke out in a high-rise apartment building in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Fire alarms have been sounding in high-rise buildings across downtown Sydney and Melbourne as dense smoke from distant wildfires confuse electronic sensors. Modern government office blocks in the Australian capital Canberra have been closed because the air inside is too dangerous for civil servants to breathe.

Smoke haze and poor air quality caused by wildfires temporarily suspended practice sessions for the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Tuesday, but qualifying began later in the morning in “very poor” air quality.

The wildfire was behaving erratically last week, and Doug Schutz and his team needed to make a quick decision. So they moved a bulldozer from another job and used it to widen a firebreak. That likely helped prevent hundreds of homes from going up in flames.