Climate, conflagrations, and calamities

Plus: A little meditation on the water-energy-ag nexus

🥵 Aridification Watch 🐫

Satellite imagery of some of the major fires burning on the afternoon of June 29, 2026. Source: NOAA Wildland Fire Data Portal.

Three federal firefighters were killed and two seriously injured when the Knowles and Gore fires overtook them southwest of Grand Junction near the Utah-Colorado line. The fires joined with others to be…