Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. The coverage of wildfires in the West is a growing beat for journalists. Each year, it seems, the fires are on a mission to outdo the record amount of damage done the year before. Then, in August, a desert wildfire whipped across more than 40,000 acres in Mojave National Preserve. This struck me as something we had not seen before, and we hadn’t: More than a million Joshua trees, burned.

Source: New York Times December 15, 2020 17:26 UTC