It’s been a harrowing week of fire and flood in New Mexico. Just days after a pair of fast-moving fires roared across drought-stricken landscapes and into communities, a tropical storm swirled north…
Blistering cold events are becoming more stark and pose a threat not only to humans but to entire ecosystems
The extreme cold settling over the US this week will be biting, as a blast of arctic air…
Booming expansion to meet the demands of thousands of visitors every year is squeezing dwindling water supply
It was a typically hot summer day in Utah’s Zion national park, where early-afternoon…
The drought hit Lake Shasta coughed up a Higgins vehicle and experts are struggling to explain its presence
Waning water levels across the west – symptoms of the region’s record drought – have…
The billowing black smoke that has cloaked the US Pacific north-west during wildfire disasters in past years has caused atmospheric carbon monoxide levels to spike, with the contaminants offsetting…
Global heating will cause ‘megafires resistant to fire suppression practices’ with 25% of land being burned by 2040
A convergence of dangerous weather conditions, exacerbated by the climate crisis…
A historic drought and record-breaking heatwaves combined to spark blazed that burned nearly 7.7m acres this year
2021 proved another disastrous fire year for the American west.
The deluge extinguished smoldering fires – but the west may not get the wet winter it desperately needs.
Over the span of two days, dramatic scenes of dried landscapes and wildfires that have…
As the climate crisis brings increasingly unpredictable fire seasons, the future of the $43bn industry is uncertain
The Silverado Trail, a two-lane road that weaves through the bucolic hillsides…