Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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In his gripping new Pulitzer prize finalist book, Fire Weather, John Vaillant explores the complex relationship between ecological processes, and their impact on humanity and the landscapes we inhabit. His research examines pressing environmental issues, such climate change, fire dynamics, and humanity's ever evolving relationship with the natural world. Today Vaillant discusses the world's most pressing environmental challenges, highlighting the urgent need for proactive responsibility and global collaboration in order to address them.

John Vaillant is an award-winning author and journalist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and National Geographic. His most recent book, Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the U.S. National Book Award, the winner of Britain's Baillie Gifford Prize and Canada's Shaughnessy-Cohen Prize, and was one of the New York Times’ ten best books of 2023.

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