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13 Newsorga stories grouped around “Climate”, published from 2026-05-06 through 2026-05-11. Most pieces are in Science, World, Climate, and Culture. Newest first below.

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Thick plume of dark wildfire smoke rising over an open grass plain at sunset — illustrative imagery for Newsorga's coverage of the Max Road Fire in western Broward County's Everglades, which exploded from roughly 80 acres to more than 4,800 acres on May 10, 2026 and stood at approximately 5,000 acres and 20 percent containment on the morning of May 11 as ash drifted over the Holly Lake area of Pembroke Pines along US-27 and Pines Boulevard, with the 172nd Avenue Fire in south Miami-Dade and the Highway 41 Fire inside Everglades National Park still active among 61 wildfires the Florida Forest Service was tracking across the state.

Climate

Max Road Fire hits 5,000 acres in Broward Everglades; smoke reaches Pembroke Pines

The Max Road Fire, which ignited in the western Broward County Everglades on Sunday afternoon May 10, 2026 and exploded from roughly 80 acres to more than 4,800 acres in a single afternoon under triple-digit heat indices, extreme-drought dew points of 40-50 degrees Fahrenheit and a heavy mat of dry sawgrass and melaleuca fuels, was at approximately 5,000 acres and just 20 percent containment by the morning of Monday May 11 according to the Florida Forest Service, with thick plumes sending ash and smoke into the Holly Lake area of Pembroke Pines along US-27 and Pines Boulevard while Pembroke Pines Police and Fire-Rescue set up a perimeter watch, the separately tracked 172nd Avenue Fire burned about 210 acres at 30 percent containment near Florida City in south Miami-Dade with Card Sound Road temporarily closed, and the Highway 41 Fire inside Everglades National Park grew toward roughly 6,700 acres at zero percent containment threatening at least eight structures — three of the 61 active wildfires the Florida Forest Service was tracking across the state.

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Stark desert landscape with distant ridgelines under a hot, hazy sky — illustrative imagery of the arid Mojave/Death Valley type terrain across which the National Weather Service's May 10-12, 2026 extreme-heat warnings have been issued, with Death Valley forecast to hit 111°F on Monday.

World

California's May heatwave to hit 111°F in Death Valley as Fresno tracks toward earliest 102° on record

A National Weather Service cluster of extreme-heat warnings and watches has California tipping into a roughly 60-hour stretch of triple-digit afternoons across the state's desert and Central Valley belts from Sunday morning into Tuesday evening: Fresno is forecast to reach 102°F on Monday, which would be the earliest the city has ever hit that mark in modern records, alongside 108°F in Palm Springs, 111°F in Death Valley, and 105 to 112°F across Imperial County, the Salton Sea, the Coachella Valley, San Diego County deserts and the San Gorgonio Pass — areas that together hold roughly 450,000 residents newly under the NWS's highest-tier extreme-heat warning, while the Bay Area and Los Angeles coastal strip stay 10 to 30 degrees cooler and fire-weather red-flag risk climbs across the Mojave and the Central Coast counties.

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