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

Their early findings suggest that wildfire smoke is broadly and especially toxic. Burning trees, soil, and vehicles can throw ...

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

A pair of bipartisan senators introduced legislation this week that would seek information on how much growing wildfires are ...

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

Climate change made the L.A. wildfires 35 percent more likely. SCIENCE. How wildfire smoke affects your body—and how you can protect yourself. A particularly severe phase of that persistent ...

Forests play a major role pulling planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. As the world heats up, some forests ...

Climate change isn’t just fueling more wildfires — it’s silently killing people. A new study led by an Oregon State University (OSU) finds that wildfires, fuelled by human-driven climate ...

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

A recent report from the Public Policy Institute of California found additionally that 60% were very concerned, a remarkable ...

While much of Western Canada, northern Ontario and Newfoundland burn this summer, there's a growing debate about whether ...

Europe has been experiencing dozens of extreme weather events in recent weeks, from blistering heatwaves to raging storms. Many of these rapidly fluctuating phenomena have already been attributed in ...