wildfires

Triple-digit temperatures could spark new fires just a few weeks after a record heatwave. California is bracing for another dangerously warm weekend, with dry winds, parched vegetation, and triple-…

Infernos in South America’s Pantanal region have burnt twice the area of California’s fires this year. Researchers fear the rare ecosystem will never recover. When Luciana Leite arrived in the…

This year’s historic blazes and apocalyptic skies will become routine. Hope lies in rethinking how we live with fire.

If there was a moment of true emergency in the fight to preserve our climate, it is now

What is driving the wildfires that are ravaging California, Oregon and Washington? President Trump and state officials have offered sharply different views.

The smoke from the wildfires devastating the West Coast of the U.S. has reached as far away as Europe, officials said Wednesday.

In climate change, the Four Horsemen have a perfect force of destruction. Maybe these fires and floods will be a wake-up call to stop stalling. As the west coast burns into an orange hellscape you…

A media watchdog analysis found that just 15% of broadcast news segments over a September weekend made the connection to climate breakdown. Most news coverage of the wildfires raging in California,…

*This story was originally published on CBS News on September 9, 2020. All data and statistics are based on publicly available data at the time of publication.

Scientists have been warning of the growing threat of climate change, and now those projections are a reality. Like millions of people in the western United States this week, I woke up to deep red,…

The climate crisis is a factor, but so are efforts to fight fires - which have had the opposite effect. We call them wildfires, but that might not be the right word any more. In recent days, at…

Home values, state tourism and local governments could be damaged, causing defaults and market disruptions. The devastating wildfires now sweeping across the western US are among the sparks from…

What is happening now is astonishingly worse than any previous fire season. We are in a new kind of era.

There are more than 14,000 firefighters working across the state to contain around 25 major fires. California is having a record-breaking year of flames, as dozens of wildfires have set the state…

The California governor, Gavin Newsom, said ‘this is not a world that anyone should be experiencing’ as he surveyed charred mountain terrain devastated by wildfires. ‘If you do not believe in science…

U.S. President Donald Trump has undone many major pieces of climate policy during his term,walking out on the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global warming and eliminating numerous Obama-era…

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The traditional end of summer weekend will feel more like mid-July in the West. The National Weather Service is not mincing words about what's in store for Southern California this weekend as it…

"We have not reached the peak. In fact, no one knows where the peak is,” one expert said. Across large parts of California, daylight never arrived on Sept. 9. Caught under a vast sheet of smoke…

The Arctic wildfire season has been the worst since record-keeping began. "Zombie" wildfires that were smoldering beneath the Arctic ice all winter suddenly flared to life this summer when the snow…