Wildfires

California Ballot Asks Voters to Invest in Climate Solutions

California officials cut billions from ambitious climate programs to offset an unexpected budget deficit. Now they hope voters approve a multibillion-dollar bond to fill the gap.

By Liza Gross

With Wyoming’s Regional Haze Plan ‘Partially Rejected,’ Conservationists Await Agency’s Final Proposal

By Jake Bolster

Aquatic Ecosystems Aren’t Immune to Wildfire Impacts, Research Shows

By Kiley Price

‘Weather Whiplash’ Helped Drive This Year’s California Wildfires

By Caroline Marshall Reinhart

In the Park Fire, an Indigenous Cultural Fire Practitioner Sees Beyond Destruction

By Sarah Hopkins

A Path Through Scorched Earth Teaches How a Fire Deficit Helped Fuel California’s Conflagrations

By Bing Lin

Disaster Recovery Is a Delicate Act of Balancing Priorities

By Mathilde Augustin

First Snow, then Heat Interrupt a Hike From Mexico to Canada, as Climate Complicates an Iconic Adventure

By Bing Lin

Supercharged by Climate Change, Western Megafires Explode Simultaneously

By Kiley Price

Fire Once Helped Sequoias Reproduce. Now, it’s Killing the Groves

By Caroline Marshall Reinhart

As Climate Change Dries Out the West, Fourth of July Fireworks Spark Increased Wildfire Risk

By Kiley Price

Can the Greater Sage-Grouse Be Kept Off the Endangered Species List?

By Wyatt Myskow

Significant Environmental and Climate Impacts Are Impinging on Human Rights in Every Country, a New Report Finds

By Katie Surma

The Midwest Could Be in for Another Smoke-Filled Summer. Here’s How States Are Preparing

By Kristoffer Tigue

Canadian Wildfire Smoke Is Triggering Outdoor Air Quality Alerts Across the Midwestern U.S. It Could Pollute the Indoors, Too

By Kiley Price

Climate Extremes Slammed Latin America and the Caribbean Last Year. A New UN Report Details the Impacts and Costs

By Bob Berwyn

Will There Be Less Wind to Fuel Wind Energy?

By Brett Chase, Dan Gearino

As Climate Change Intensifies Wildfire Risk, Prescribed Burns Prove Their Worth in the Heat-Stressed Plains of the Texas Panhandle

By Keaton Peters

Water From Arsenic-Laced Wells Could Protect the Pine Ridge Reservation From Wildfires

By Taylar Dawn Stagner, Grist