The report, Spreading like Wildfire: The Rising Threat of Extraordinary Landscape Fires, finds an elevated risk even for the Arctic and other regions previously unaffected…
Communities within the West’s wildland-urban interface are booming in the very places where ecosystems are most sensitive to drought, posing increasing wildfire risks in an…
Heat and drought exacerbated fire season in 2020, but cattle grazing and other human activities also primed the region to burn. One of the world’s…
Wildfires and prescribed burns, which can promote soil organic matter stability, may be an important nature-based climate solution to increase long-term carbon storage. That is…
Hurricane-force winds whipped fires across drought-parched grasslands and into suburban neighborhoods. On December 30, 2021, high winds roared out of the west and down the…
Lower humidity and higher temperatures are driving extreme weather that makes wildfires more frequent and intense, say experts. The world’s eight most extreme wildfire weather…
From 50,000 years to 6,000 years ago, many of the world’s largest animals, including such iconic grassland grazers as the woolly mammoth, giant bison, and…
Iron-rich aerosols from the 2019-2020 fires fertilized huge phytoplankton populations in the far South Pacific. The catastrophic wildfires that scorched eucalyptus forests in southern and…
Statistical modeling highlights predictive importance of local climate and human activity. Researchers have uncovered new insights into the dynamics that underlie the probabilities of wildfire…
After massive California wildfire, deer returned home while trees were “still smoldering.” While many animals have adapted to live with wildfires of the past —…
Chaparral shrublands and strong winds are fueling the fast-moving fire. For much of summer 2021, large fires decimated forests in Northern California. By the middle of…
This is the second part of a story about fires in California. Read part 1 here. Accumulating fuels and rising populations are contributing to California’s…
Heat waves and droughts supercharged by climate change, a century of fire suppression, and fast-growing populations have made large, destructive fires more likely. If it…
The researchers hope scientists and regulators will consider a broader class of compounds in evaluating cancer risk due to PAH exposure. Whenever organic matter is…
The KNP fire complex and Windy fire are threatening groves of giant sequoias and prompting authorities to issue evacuation orders. NASA satellites first detected signs…
Rising Temperatures and Risky Development Contribute to Heightened Exposure to Earthquakes, Flooding, Tornadoes, Hurricanes and Wildfire More than half of the structures in the contiguous…
Boom in carbon-sequestering phytoplankton raises new questions about oceanic carbon uptake and productivity. Clouds of smoke and ash from wildfires that ravaged Australia in 2019…
In the midst of another brutal fire season, several of California’s natural treasures have also been threatened. In the midst of another brutal fire season that has…
