{"id":587472,"date":"2026-08-08T23:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T23:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/587472\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T23:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T23:54:11","slug":"what-happens-when-the-world-is-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/587472\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens When the World is on Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Between drought, heat, and wildfire, much of the world is summering in record-breaking territory. <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/07\/30\/england-wildfire-swells-suffolk-evacuations-high-temperatures\/\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The U.K.<\/a>, its iconic green landscape now parched to desert brown, is suffering one of its worst droughts since record-keeping began. Eight time zones away, Spokane, Washington, endures similarly outlandish temperatures as it continues to battle the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c5y3ppmmev1o\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">destructive<\/a> wildfire the city and state has ever seen. With no relief in sight, there is, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bPoMr-Gg_b8\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according<\/a> to the city\u2019s mayor, Lisa Brown, a years-long recovery already baked in. British Columbia, which has suffered several of the worst fire seasons in its history over the past decade, is bracing itself for the worst one yet. In Utah, fire officials are <a href=\"https:\/\/attheu.utah.edu\/facultystaff\/utahs-historic-fire-season-of-2026\/\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">saying<\/a> the same thing. In Russia this month, temperatures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/its-90-degrees-in-the-arctic-right-now\/\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">broke<\/a> 90\u00b0F. at two different weather stations at the Arctic Circle, nearly 3,000 miles north of Miami, where such temperatures are the norm for this time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Between drought, heat, and wildfire, much of the world is summering in record-breaking territory. The U.K., its iconic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82,63458],"class_list":["post-587472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-weekend-essay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}