The latest science on the link between climate change and natural disasters — and how they may be playing out where you live.

Wildfires have spread across the planet for millennia, but they are increasing as the climate warms. Decimated forests, ...

Ground slumping in yedoma permafrost after a wildfire, in the interior of Alaska. Yedoma permafrost generally contains large ...

“The Dragon Bravo Fire on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park exhibited extreme and volatile fire behavior the evening of July 12, resulting in a 500-acre expansion,” the National Park Service ...

As record wildfires erupt across Canada this year, with health-threatening smoke drifting into the U.S. and as far away as ...

Wildfires are now a consistent threat. Learn how to rebuild stronger, smarter, and safer to better withstand the next ...

Lookout Fire burned most of a forest in Oregon. What's unfolding in the aftermath could inform the future of other forests ...

In late June and early July, a heatwave swept through Europe bringing with it temperatures of over 40°C in many countries.  ...

A new study conducted in Lake County, California—one of the most wildfire-affected regions in the country—has found that ...

Six Republican Congress members callously urged Canada to take “proper action” to mitigate smoke wafting into the U.S.

Welcome to Europe 's new normal, said Hamdam Mostafavi in Libération (Paris), where our once-glorious summers have been made ...

A 2021 study supported by NOAA similarly concluded that climate change is primarily responsible for wildfire conditions, like hotter and drier summers. Wildfires themselves also release carbon ...