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A new blaze, dubbed the Easy Fire, near Los Angeles is getting closer to the library in Simi Valley. It has already burned through 1,300 acres, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents. We hear from some of them, as well as from David Hagele, mayor of Healdsburg, a city which last week was being used as an evacuation centre.

Chilean president Sebastian Pinera has said he's cancelling the so-called COP 25 scheduled for this December. It's a conference intended to assess how the landmark Paris Accord on climate change is being implemented. We speak to Andrew Revkin of Colombia University's Earth Institute.

And as new research from India reveals that Mumbai and Kolkata could be hit by worse flooding that previously thought, we speak to our reporter in Mumbai, India's largest city.

Fergus Nicoll is joined throughout the programme by Alexander Kaufman, environment reporter at the Huffington Post in New York, and Rachel Cartland, author and expert on Hong Kong who joins us from our bureau there.

(Picture: Firefighters in California. Credit: Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images)