In 2023 and 2024, the hottest years on record, more than 78 million acres of forests burned around the globe. The fires sent ...

"With climate change, high wind, less rain, and high heat here, there's an increased risk of wildfire risk,” Allen Kratz, the ...

Loretta Mickley first started thinking about smoke in the summer of 2002. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech ...

An academic paper presented at the Brookings Institute's annual conference found that future wildfire risks are already ...

Opinion: A warming climate will continue to lead to larger, more frequent, and costlier wildfires across the West.

Greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from burning coal, oil and gas, have heated the planet by about 1.3 degrees Celsius since ...

So far, Washington's fire season is shaping up exactly as expected. The entire state and Oregon has above-normal fire risk.

Two new studies say data center firms face growing threats from climate change-driven natural disasters and need to start ...

Those factors quietly primed the landscape for fire, Bonakdari said. It took just a spark for the fires to take off quickly. “The key link to climate change is this: these kinds of subtle but ...

Climate change shapes where and how we live. That's why NPR is dedicating a week to stories about solutions for building and living on a hotter planet. Ron Watson's new roof doesn't just protect ...