Wildfires

This Year’s US Wildfires Have Already Set Records That Could Foreshadow a Smoky, Fiery Summer

Recently released data show how drought, paltry Western snows and unseasonable heat, all exacerbated by climate change, could be priming the nation for a long wildfire season.

By Jake Bolster

USDA Says It Needs Roads to Fight Remote Wildfires, but a New Study Says Roads Bring More Fire to Forests

By Zoë Rom

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

By Kiley Bense, Keerti Gopal

A New Wine Label Promotes Workers’ Rights

By Liza Gross

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

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

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

By Keerti Gopal

Warming Triggers a Chain Reaction of Disturbance in European Forests

By Bob Berwyn

Why Electricity Bills Are So High—and How the Blowback Could Hit Trump

By Dan Gearino, Marianne Lavelle

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

By Jaylan Sims

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

By Katie Surma

Congress Has Doubts About the Trump Administration’s New Wildfire Management Plans

By Kiley Price

Patagonia Is Burning

By Anika Jane Beamer

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

By Claire Barber

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

By Jake Bolster

Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year

By Johnny Sturgeon

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

By William von Herff

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

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

By Kiley Price

Disaster Survivors Denounce Proposed FEMA Downsizing

By Anika Jane Beamer