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Lorraine Capolungo near the site of her mobile home in the Creekside Mobile Home Park, which burned in the Cache Fire in Clearlake, California. Credit: Michael Kodas

Inside Climate News Freelancer Anne Marshall-Chalmers Honored for her Feature Story Showing California Wildfires Plague Mobile Home Residents

By ICN Editors

Adam Norris surveys the wildfire damage at his home in Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada, on May 8, 2023. - Canada struggled on Monday to control wildfires that have forced thousands to flee, halted oil production and threatens to raze towns, with the western province of Alberta calling for federal help. Credit: Walter Tychnowicz / AFP via Getty Images

Fossil Fuel Companies and Cement Manufacturers Could Be to Blame for a More Than a Third of West’s Wildfires

By Wyatt Myskow

Wildfire smoke hovers over the Pacific coast of northern New South Wales, Australia in September 2019. Credit: Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data/Gallo Images via Getty Images

How Wildfire Smoke from Australia Affected Climate Events Around the World

By Bob Berwyn

Two patches of land sit in a dried up lake bed in 2022. These were once islands in Laguna de Aculeoa, a popular freshwater lake for fishing, boating and swimming, just an hour from Santiago, Chile. The lake dried up completely in 2018 due to the ongoing megadrought.

More Than a Decade of Megadrought Brought a Summer of Megafires to Chile

Story and photos by James Whitlow Delano

Jayden Mitchell, youth volunteer with the Santa Clara Pueblo forestry department, plants conifer seedlings near a pond in the Santa Clara canyon floodplain. Credit: Sara Van Note

Restoring Watersheds, and Hope, After New Mexico’s Record-Breaking Wildfires

By Sara Van Note

A wildfire burns in the Port Hills in Victoria Park above Christchurch, New Zealand, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. New research studying carbon deposited in glacial ice in Antarctica indicates that land-clearing fires set by the Māori people of New Zealand before the Industrial Revolution may have had a larger impact on the climate than previously believed. Credit: Matias Delacroix/NurPhoto via Getty Images

How Much Did Ancient Land-Clearing Fires in New Zealand Affect the Climate?

By Bob Berwyn

September 2, 2021. Credit: Branden Eastwood / AFP) (Photo by BRANDEN EASTWOOD/AFP via Getty Images

Will a Summer of Climate Crises Lead to Climate Action? It’s Not Looking Good

By Marianne Lavelle

Wendy Bragg, a marine ecologist and doctoral student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, holds a black abalone just before it's resettled along the Big Sur coast. , Credit: Anne Marshall-Chalmers

On California’s Coast, Black Abalone, Already Vulnerable to Climate Change, are Increasingly Threatened by Wildfire

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

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

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

Firefighters use a back burn to try and control the Carr fire as it spreads towards the towns of Douglas City and Lewiston near Redding, California on July 31, 2018. The fire swept over the Iron Mountain Mine Superfund site, threatening to release corrosive chemicals into the watershed and contaminate Redding's water supply. Two firefighters were killed fighting the blaze and a 70 year old woman and her two great-grandchildren perished when their Redding home was swallowed by the flames. Credit: Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images

Fueled by Climate Change, Wildfires Threaten Toxic Superfund Sites

By Michael Kodas, David Hasemyer

Firefighters battle a brush fire in the Meadowlands near MetLife Stadium on April 11, 2012 in Carlstadt, New Jersey. Credit: Michael Bocchieri/Getty Images

A Warming Planet Makes Northeastern Forests More Susceptible to Western-Style Wildfires

By Ilana Cohen

The Society of Professional Journalists Recognizes “American Climate” for Distinguished Reporting

By Vernon Loeb

Hickenlooper and Gardner

Senate 2020: In Colorado, Where Climate Matters, Hickenlooper is Favored to Unseat Gardner

By Judy Fahys

Rob Sinskey stands in his backyard vineyard, where he is experimenting with growing varieties of wine grapes considered more drought tolerant and resistant to climate change. Credit: Evelyn Nieves/InsideClimate News

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

By Evelyn Nieves

In this aerial view from a drone, search and rescue vehicles from the Jackson County Sheriff's Office are seen in a mobile home park that was destroyed by wildfire on Sept. 11, 2020 in Ashland, Oregon. Credit: David Ryder/Getty Images

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

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks about climate change and the wildfires on the West Coast at the Delaware Museum of Natural History on Sept. 14, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

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

By Marianne Lavelle

In August 1910, hundreds of wildfires exploded over an area the size of Connecticut in the Bitterroot Mountains of Idaho and Montana. Credit: U.S. Forest Service

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

By Michael Kodas

Smoky skies from the northern California wildfires turn the sky a glowing orange in San Francisco, California on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. Credit: Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images

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

By Deborah Petersen

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