The Burning West

Video: In California, the Northfork Mono Tribe Brings ‘Good Fire’ to Overgrown Woodlands

"Cultural burning" helps the tribe pass on its stories and language, improves resources for its artisans and helps prevent destructive wildfires.

Video By Adam Sings in the Timber; Text By Michael Kodas

Vintners and Farmers Are Breathing Easier After the Demise of Proposition 15, a ‘Headache’ at Best

By Evelyn Nieves

Clouds of Concern Linger as Wildfires Drag into Flu Season and Covid Numbers Swell

By Judy Fahys

The Biggest Threat to Growing Marijuana in California Used to Be the Law. Now, it’s Climate Change

By Evelyn Nieves

A Most ‘Sustainable’ Vineyard in a ‘Completely Unsustainable’ Year

By Evelyn Nieves

Text: Joe Biden on Climate Change, ‘a Global Crisis That Requires American Leadership’

Biden Puts Climate Change at Center of Presidential Campaign, Calling Trump a ‘Climate Arsonist’

By Marianne Lavelle

Huge Western Fires in 1910 Changed US Wildfire Policy. Will Today’s Conflagrations Do the Same?

By Michael Kodas

As Wildfire Smoke Blots Out the Sun in Northern California, Many Ask: ‘Where Are the Birds?’

By Deborah Petersen

A Siege of 80 Large, Uncontained Wildfires Sweeps the Hot, Dry West

By Michael Kodas

10 Days of Climate Extremes: From Record Heat to Wildfires to the One-Two Punch of Hurricane Laura

By Bob Berwyn

The Fires May be in California, but the Smoke, and its Health Effects, Travel Across the Country

By Evelyn Nieves, Michael Kodas

California and Colorado Fires May Be Part of a Climate-Driven Global Transformation of Wildfires

By Michael Kodas

‘Is This Real Life?’ A Wall of Fire Robs a Russian River Town of its Nonchalance

By Evelyn Nieves

Drought Fears Take Hold in a Four Corners Region Already Beset by the Coronavirus Pandemic

By Judy Fahys