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A thick haze blankets New York City as smoke from Canadian wildfires impacts air quality in the region on Aug. 5, 2025. Credit: Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images

Climate-Fueled Wildfires and Dust Storms Drove Up Air Pollution Around the World Last Year

By Kiley Bense, Keerti Gopal

A worker picks leaves from the conveyor belt of a harvester during grape harvest on a vineyard in Lodi, Calif., on Oct. 13, 2025. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

A New Wine Label Promotes Workers’ Rights

By Liza Gross

The burned remains of a timber operation in Molalla, Ore., on Sept. 13, 2020, after the Riverside Fire swept through the area. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

The Fight Over Logging on U.S. Public Lands Isn’t Done Yet

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

A community memorial in Lahaina, Hawaii, honors those lost in the devastation of the 2023 Maui wildfires. Credit: AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images

Maui’s Mental Health Crisis Goes Far Beyond the Wildfire Burn Zone 

By Keerti Gopal

A man uses buckets of water to extinguish a wildfire that threatens his house in the Portuguese village of Antas on Aug. 15, 2025. Credit: Patricia de Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Images

Warming Triggers a Chain Reaction of Disturbance in European Forests

By Bob Berwyn

A nearly 600-acre fire in Pacolet, S.C., caused substantial burning of tree roots. The roots are where kudzu vines build strong anchor points. Credit: Don Dicey/Conserving Carolina

The Voracious Vine That ‘Ate the South’ Can Also Fuel Wildfires

By Jaylan Sims

Choosing the Right Home Is Tough. Climate Change Is Making It Harder.

By Kiley Price

The Gifford Fire burns through 30,000 acres in Los Padres National Forest near Santa Maria, Calif., on Aug. 2, 2025. Credit: Benjamin Hanson/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

Wildfire Urgency Unites Congress. The ‘Fix Our Forests’ Act Does Not.

By Katie Surma

A street is inundated with floodwater during a King Tide event on Jan. 3 in Corte Madera, Calif. Credit: Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

A California Climate Expert Is Working to Restore Climate Risk Scores Deleted by Zillow

By Claire Barber

The Dollar Lake Fire broke out near Green River Lakes in the Wind River Mountains in August 2025. Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News

A Record Wildfire Season Inspires Wyoming to Prepare for an Increasingly Fiery Future

By Jake Bolster

Jay Carlisle, research director at Boise State University’s Intermountain Bird Observatory, walks through the burned forest near Lucky Peak station. Credit: Heidi Ware Carlisle

An Idaho Bird Research Station Rises From the Ashes of a Wildfire

By William von Herff

Demonstrators attend a Stand Up for Science rally to highlight the critical role of science in public health, environmental stewardship and education at the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on March 7. Credit: Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

Firefighters with the U.S. Forest Service prepare a hoselay on a hillside during the Park Fire in Tehama County, Calif., on July 27, 2024. Credit: Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

Hope—and Many Fears—Follow in the Wake of Trump’s Plan to Transform Wildland Firefighting

By Kiley Price

A man uses a wrench stuck into a pipe to turn off a burning gas line during the Eaton Fire on Jan. 8 in Altadena, Calif. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

LA Wildfire Survivors Want to Rebuild All-Electric, but a Utility Is Using Customer Funds to Incentivize Gas Appliances

By Hilary Beaumont

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

Fire burns through leaves as a prescribed burn takes place at High Park in Toronto. Credit: Lance McMillan/Toronto Star via Getty Images

How Indigenous Cultural Burns Can Help Heal Climate-Ravaged Forests—and People

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

A farmer uses a tractor to plant soybeans on land near Dwight, Ill., on April 28. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Unpredictable Spurts of Dry and Wet Weather Cause Confusion and New Challenges for Midwestern Farmers

By Katie Cerulle

Adriana Valdez pulls back a drape to inspect the layer of ash coating her son’s toys at her home in Altadena on April 1.

For Many Disabled Fire Victims in Los Angeles, a Continuing Trauma

Story and photos by Nina Dietz

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