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After Snowy Winter Delays Prevention, New Jersey Faces Rising Wildfire Risk

With a wildfire season that runs from March to May, fewer acres have burned than usual. But with fewer prescribed burns to thin combustible underbrush, severe fire remains a possibility.

By Anna Mattson

Flames rise over Belleville Township, N.J, as firefighters battle a 14-alarm blaze on May 3. Credit: Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images
Tree limbs fall atop a snow-covered car in Boulder, Colo., during one of the largest May snowstorms in decades on May 6. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images

New Paper Shows Surges of Concentrated Precipitation Can Lead to Dryer Landscapes

By Jake Bolster

Community members participate in a blessing ceremony of the Atrisco Acequia Madre in Albuquerque, N.M. Credit: Tina Deines/Inside Climate News

New Mexico’s Time-Honored Irrigation Canals Face Existential Threat

By Tina Deines

People spend time on Crissy Field Beach during warm weather in San Francisco on March 11. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

Summer in March? Unusual Heat Wave Descends on Already Parched Western U.S.

By Kiley Price

A person shovels out their car from a snow-covered street on Monday in Hoboken, N.J. Credit: Gary Hershorn/Getty Images

How Snowstorms Can Trigger More Dangerous Flooding in New Jersey

By Rambo Talabong

Cars drive over the Central Arizona Canal, which delivers Colorado River water to Central and Southern Arizona, on Dec. 19, 2025. Credit: Kayla Bartkowski/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Colorado River Negotiators Are Nearly Out of Time and Snowpack

By Jake Bolster, Wyatt Myskow

As the Winter Olympics Stares Down a Warming Future, Organizers Must Adapt, Scientists Say

By Kiley Price

Climate Change Is Threatening Christmas Classics

By Kiley Price

A high-severity burn in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. Wildfires are altering the snowpack, a crucial source of water in the West. Credit: Arielle Koshkin

In Burned Forests, the West’s Snowpack Is Melting Earlier

By Mitch Tobin, The Water Desk

A technician with North American Weather Consultants works on a cloud seeding generator in Ogden, Utah on March 20. Utah has the nation's largest program, and nearby states are watching to see how it adds to the water supply. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Snowflakes, Death Threats and Dollar Signs: Cloud Seeding Is at a Crossroads

By Alex Hager, KUNC

More than 1 million people skated on the Rideau Canal Skateway, the world's largest ice rink, in Ottawa this winter. Credit: Phil McKenna/Inside Climate News

Can the World’s Largest Ice Rink Survive a Warming Planet?

By Phil McKenna

Crews work before dawn to clear snow from the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as a winter storm hits Washington, D.C. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Another Polar Vortex Is Blasting the U.S. With Harsh Winter Weather. So How Is Climate Change Involved?

By Kristoffer Tigue

From Snow to Heat, Extreme Weather Events Pose Outsized Risks for Food Delivery Workers

By Kiley Price

Cattle graze on small islands of hay surrounded by pastureland burned by wildfires tearing through the Texas Panhandle. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Texas Panhandle Wildfires Wreak Havoc on the State’s Agriculture Industry

By Kiley Price

A skier makes their way through the trails at the Korkki Nordic Ski Center near Duluth, Minn. Credit: Alex Kormann/Star Tribune via Getty Images

Warm Winter Threatens Recreation Revenue in the Upper Midwest

By Kristoffer Tigue

On the last day of summer, fall colors contrast with the burnt landscape of the Cameron Peak Fire on Sept. 21, 2021 in Larimer County, Colorado. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Western Forests, Snowpack and Wildfires Appear Trapped in a Vicious Climate Cycle

By Bob Berwyn

Snow piles on the trees at Olympic National Park. Credit: D Logan/Classicstock/Getty Images

Warming Trends: Putting Citizen Scientists to Work, Assuring Climate-Depressed Kids That the Future is Bright, and Deploying Solar-Hydrogen Generators

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Aerial view of a maintenance worker checking solar panels at a photovoltaic power station covered by snow at Qianjiang District on Jan. 17, 2021 in Chongqing, China. Credit: Ye Xingjian/VCG via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Think Solar Panels Don’t Work in Snow? New Research Says Otherwise

By Dan Gearino

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