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Firefighters test out new tool as Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands burn
Record-setting wildfires are raging in the Pantanal region in Brazil. In a densely vegetated rural area the size of England, it can be hard for firefighters to find and reach the blazes to combat them. That’s why one nonprofit is training local fighters to use drones to pinpoint the exact location and size of fires, and scope out roads to reach them.
For Rosa Brooks, how drones turned from the abstract to the stuff of nightmares
Brooks, the author of the new book “How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything,” reflects on how the lines between war and peace have blurred since 9/11.Brooks, the author of the new book “How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything,” reflects on how the lines between war and peace have blurred since 9/11.
Here’s why one former Taliban captive is calling for a halt to US ‘signature’ drone strikes
When reporter David Rohde was in captivity in Pakistan, he worried that a drone strike might accidentally kill him. And now that it’s happened to American aid worker Warren Weinstein. Rohde says the US needs to stop strikes that use only behavioral patterns to figure out their targets.