
Should New York City Burn Its Parks? This Scientist Thinks So.
An unusual outbreak of wildfires in city parks gave scientists a chance to study these rare events. Now they’re coming to different conclusions.
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Thursday, March 5, 2026 · 31 stories

An unusual outbreak of wildfires in city parks gave scientists a chance to study these rare events. Now they’re coming to different conclusions.

The city will close the 30th Street Shelter, a large homeless facility located next to Bellevue Hospital in Midtown Manhattan. The shelter has faced years of complaints regarding deteriorating conditions and safety concerns in the structure, which occupies the site of Bellevue's former psychiatric hospital.

A New York appellate court panel ruled that a state law prohibiting landlord discrimination against Section 8 housing voucher recipients may violate landlords' constitutional rights, creating a legal obstacle for low-income tenants seeking housing.

NEW YORK CITY, New York (WABC) -- A second person is facing charges after a 37-year-old homeless man was set on fire outside of Penn Station in New York City. You look up above the escalator, there's a gentleman on fire, flames completely engulfed, he's running back and forth trying to get it out, people are trying to pat him down," said witness Sam Stalone. 47-year old-Damon Johnson of Brooklyn and 33-year-old Lyla Najjar of Queens were arrested in connection with the arson attack.

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Citizens here we suggest you find your own way out and don't rely on us to get you out," she said. But there was no flight to get out," said Brooklyn resident Miriam Steinberg.

Reports of attack on US registered tanker in Gulf lifts crude by 3% to $84 a barrel as gas price also starts to climb Stock markets have rebounded in Asia after days of heavy losses driven by the war in the Middle East , but oil and gas prices have continued to climb amid disruption to supplies. Gas prices also pushed higher, with UK gas up almost 1%, while European natural gas futures climbed 2%. South Korea’s chip industry, which supplies two-thirds of global memory chips, is also concerned that a prolonged conflict in Iran will lead to higher energy costs and prices, Kim Young-bae said.

Pacific island says the US weakened its proposal to advance a key climate ruling but vows to hold major polluters accountable The Trump administration’s attempt to sink a UN resolution demanding countries act on the climate crisis has caused cuts to the proposal but hasn’t entirely killed it, according to the tiny Pacific island country spearheading the effort. The US has demanded that Vanuatu , an archipelago in.

The M23, which controls the coltan-rich area, has not commented and the death toll is hard to verify.
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