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Wildfire

Across Ecosystems, Dead Organisms Help Shape the Living World

A new paper found that the remnants of “foundation species” strongly influenced the fate of survivors.

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Dead trees burned by a wildfire span across the Manti-La Sal National Forest near Moab, Utah, in 2022. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
Firefighters are barely visible as smoke from the Bain Fire fills the air on May 19 in Jurupa Valley, Calif. Credit: Gina Ferazzia/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Wildfires Are Reversing Years of US Air Quality Gains, Study Finds

By Avril Silva

A helicopter crew battles a wildfire near Kalispell, Mont., in August 2022. Credit: Don and Melinda Crawford/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Montana Officials Warn of Elevated Wildfire Risk From Increasing Drought, Heat and Wind

By Mosabber Hossain

People visit the Climate Action Campaign’s pop-up exhibit in Washington, D.C. Credit: Gabriel Matias Castilho/Inside Climate News

A New DC ‘Museum’ Raises Awareness About the Looming Consequences of Extreme Weather

By Gabriel Matias Castilho

A team with the New Mexico Reforestation Center monitors seedlings in Mora County. Credit: Courtesy of Pouli Sikelianos/NMHU

A ‘Reforestation Pipeline’ in New Mexico Trains Seedlings to Survive in Burn Scars

By Tina Deines

Firefighters work to contain the Hughes Fire as it burns on Jan. 22, 2025, in Castaic, Calif. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s Fire Season

By Peter Aldhous

Firefighters work to combat a hotspot in the hills while the Sandy Fire continues to burn near a residential area on Wednesday in Simi Valley, Calif. Credit: Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images

As Wildfire Grows Near Ex-Nuclear Site, California County Sets Up Radiation Air Monitors

By Steven Rodas, Nina Dietz

A Forest Service firefighter uses a torch kit during a prescribed burn on March 5, 2025, at Letts Lake near Stonyford, Calif., in the Mendocino National Forest. Credit: Susan Knight-Ashley/USDA Forest Service

Prescribed Burns and Forest Thinning Averted Millions of Tons of Emissions and Billions in Damages

By Steven Rodas

Firefighters monitor the Sandy Fire as it burns close to a residential area on Monday in Simi Valley, Calif. Credit: Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images

Wildfire Crews Race to Keep Fierce California Blaze From Former Nuclear Reactor Site

By Steven Rodas, Nina Dietz

Fire in the ‘Galapagos of North America’ Risks Species Found Nowhere Else

By Kiley Price

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

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

By Anna Mattson

A field fire burns in Pará, Brazil, within the Amazon rainforest on June 16, 2025. Credit: Ivan Pisarenko/AFP via Getty Images

Amazon Deforestation at Eight-Year Low, Report Shows

By Gabriel Matias Castilho

People cross a section of collapsed road during flash flooding linked to El Niño conditions on Nov. 22, 2023, near Garissa, Kenya. Credit: Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images

As El Niño Approaches, Scientists Predict Fierce Heatwaves, Wildfires and Floods

By Bob Berwyn

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis speaks at the annual state wildfire outlook briefing in Broomfield, Colo., on April 30. Credit: Drew Cavin/Colorado College Journalism Institute

Colorado Warns of Severe Fire Risk in Southwestern States. It May be Difficult to Share Resources.

By Colorado College Journalism Institute

Drought Turns Southeastern US Into ‘Tinderbox’ as Wildfires Rage

By Kiley Price

Misty Cheng looks at flood damage to her home in Wrightwood, Calif., on Dec. 25, 2025. Credit: Eric Thayer/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

As Climate Disasters Create an Insurance Crisis, a California Bill Seeks to Make Fossil Fuel Companies Pay

By Steven Rodas

The Maui County Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic in Lahaina, Hawaii. Credit: Sean Hower/Civil Beat

Maui Mental Health Providers Face Stress and Uncertainty About State Jobs

By Keerti Gopal

Forest Service Firefighters perform a prescribed burn at Letts Lake near Stonyford, Calif., in the Mendocino National Forest on March 5, 2025. Credit: Susan Knight-Ashley/USDA Forest Service

Forest Service Shake-Up Comes As Risky Wildfire Season Looms

By Marianne Lavelle

An air tanker works to slow the spread of the Dollar Lake Fire as it burns through Wyoming in August 2025. Credit: Kris Bruington/BLM

The Warm, Dry Winter Has Left Firefighters in Wyoming Nervous

By Jake Bolster

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