Brazil's Amazon rainforest is burning

Dobie pulled a smashed sandwich out of his bag, 

looked up at the towering columns of smoke and flame. 

“Biggest I’ve ever seen.”

“She’s a romper,” Rowan agreed, “but you know what they say 

about Alaska. 

Everything’s bigger. 

Fuel up. We’ve got a long way to go.”

Chasing Fire 

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Fires are raging at a record rate in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, and scientists warn that it could strike a devastating blow to the fight against climate change.

The fires are burning at the highest rate since the country's space research center, the National Institute for Space Research (known by the abbreviation INPE), began tracking them in 2013, the center said Tuesday.

CNN

Beers of Summer

He moved to the bar, elbowed in and ordered a Bitter Root beer—in a bottle. 

Dobie squeezed beside him, punched him in the arm. “Why do you wanna drink that foreign shit?”

  “Brewed in Montana.” He passed the bottle to Dobie, ordered another.

  “Pretty good beer,” Dobie decided after a pull. “But it ain’t no Budweiser.”

  “You’re not wrong.” Amused, Gull tapped his bottle to Dobie’s, drank. 

“Beer. The answer to so many questions.”

Chasing Fire

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500 beers for those hot summer days ahead.

Popular Mechanics

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He'd have killed for a beer. A big, frosty mug filled with some dark import that

would go down smoother than a woman's first kiss. A beer in some nice, dim, cool

bar, with a ball game on the tube and a few other stool-sitters who had an

interest in the game gathered around. 

Captive Star