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• Revenge travel, where individuals made up for missed adventures during the pandemic, saw a surge in recent years.
• While overall travel demand looks to remain strong in 2024, 'Calm-cations' offer a counterbalanced experience prioritizing a true mental refresh.
• It's time to embark on a journey of mindfulness, nature, and revitalization with 'Calm-cations,' the resurgent travel trend of the year.
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• The film will be available digitally on November 3, followed by its release on Blu-ray™ and DVD on November 14.
• With overall box office sales exceeding $14 million, the film is on track to become Fathom's highest-grossing event of all time.
• You can catch a glimpse of the honest, heart-lifting film in its trailer, which is touching the hearts of audiences across America, here .
• THE BLIND is available to buy on Digital beginning November 3, 2023, for $19.99 with Blu-ray™ and DVD formats available on November 14, 2023.

• This could describe any number of recent events, in places as disparate as Colorado, California, Canada and Hawaii.
• The “Big Burn” of 1910 still holds the record for the largest fire season in the Northern Rockies.
• But are extreme fire seasons like these really that unusual in the context of history?
• This long view provides both hopeful and concerning lessons for making sense of today’s extreme fire events and impacts on forests.

Lakes record history going back millennia

• When a high-elevation forest burns, fires consume tree needles and small branches, killing most trees and lofting charcoal in the air.
• Some of that charcoal lands on lakes and sinks to the bottom, where it is preserved in layers as sediment accumulates.

Lessons from Rockies’ long history with fire

• High-elevation forests only burn about once every 100 to 250 or more years on average.
• Even today, the Northern Rockies show resilience to wildfires, including early signs of recovery after extensive fires in 2017.
• But similar research in high-elevation forests of the Southern Rockies in Colorado and Wyoming tells a different story.

Warmer climate, greater fire activity, higher risks

• Warmer, drier springs and summers load the dice to make extensive fire seasons more likely.
• This was the case in 1910 in the Northern Rockies and in 2020 in the Southern Rockies.

Lessons from the long view

• Extreme wildfires will become more and more likely as the climate warms, and it will be harder for forests to recover.
• Accidental ignitions – from downed power lines, escaped campfires, dragging chains, railroads – expand when and where fires occur, and they lead to the majority of homes lost to fires.

So what can we do?

• Forest thinning and prescribed burns can alter how forests burn, protecting humans and minimizing the most severe ecological impacts.
• Kyra Clark-Wolf has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the Joint Fire Science Program

• Released on World Food Day, The High Cost of Cheap Water uncovers a stark reality: the annual economic value of water and freshwater ecosystems is estimated to be $58 trillion – equivalent to 60% of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP)*.
• Water for all depends on healthy freshwater ecosystems, which are also the foundation of food security, biodiversity hotspots and the best buffer and insurance against intensifying climate impacts.
• To address the global water crisis, WWF calls for governments, businesses and financial institutions to urgently increase investment in sustainable water infrastructure.
• Meanwhile businesses must transform their approach to water and scale up collective action to build more resilient river basins.