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Wildfires

Compounding Climate Impacts Drive Tropical Forest Decline

Extreme heat, drought and ozone from fire emissions are devastating the Amazon and other rainforests, new research shows.

By Bob Berwyn

A fire burns in the Amazon rainforest on Oct. 2 in Iranduba, Brazil. Credit: Michael Dantas/AFP via Getty Images
Sylvie Andrews stands under a pomegranate tree on her property devastated by the Eaton Fire in Altadena, Calif. Credit: Carlin Stiehl/Inside Climate News

New California Law Aims to Stop ‘Predatory’ Developers From Moving in on Wildfire-Ravaged Community

By Steven Rodas, Nina Dietz

The Emerson Slough, part of a wetland restoration project, sits near a residential neighborhood in Oakley, Calif., on Aug. 1, 2023. Credit: Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group via Getty Images

‘Nature-Based’ Solutions Could Save Insurers and Policyholders Billions

By Emmett Gartner

A MauiWES participant takes a lung function test as University of Hawai‘i researchers track the health impacts of the August 2023 wildfires. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

Long After Wildfire Smoke Is Gone, Heavy Metals Could Still Be Harming Survivors’ Lungs

By Keerti Gopal

Wildfire survivor Krista Woodward opens the sliding glass door at her stalled home reconstruction on July 1 in Lahaina, Hawaiʻi. Credit: Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat

How to Protect Yourself From Disaster Scams

By Erin Nolan, Keerti Gopal

People walk through a flooded street in a neighborhood affected by Hurricane Melissa in Santiago de Cuba on Oct. 29, 2025. Credit: Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images

Breached Earth Boundaries Raise Risk of ‘Irreversible Change’

By Bob Berwyn

Workers rebuild a home destroyed by Hurricane Michael on May 9, 2019, in Mexico Beach, Fla. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

‘Post-Disaster Gentrification’ Proliferates in Florida Towns as Costs Soar Following Hurricanes

By Mike Schneider

A pedestrian walks in downtown Ely, Minn., as the air is filled with smoke from multiple wildfires burning in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on July 15. Credit: Anthony Soufflé/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images

Is Wildfire Risk Increasing in the Midwest?

By Susan Cosier

Krista Woodward walks through her stalled home reconstruction on July 1 in Lahaina. Credit: Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat

No Relief for Maui Wildfire Survivors Losing Thousands to Contractors

By Erin Nolan, Keerti Gopal

A firefighter assigned to the Bobcat Lakes Fire uses a drip torch to ignite unburned vegetation as part of a firing operation on Aug. 30. Credit: Northern Rockies Complex Incident Management Team

Why Montana Firefighters Are Intentionally Burning Areas Around Two Wildfires

By Mosabber Hossain

Smoke rises around the burned chairs at Maverick Mountain in Montana after the Sand Creek Fire damaged the ski area. Credit: Maverick Mountain Resort

A Montana Community Rallies to Save Its Beloved Ski Hill

By Mosabber Hossain

Firefighters manage a controlled burn at Acadia National Park in Maine in 2024. Credit: Brady Richards/National Park Service

Burning Questions Confront Wildland Firefighters in Maine and Across New England

By Sydney Cromwell

Smoke rises behind a residential area as a wildfire burns in Gironde, France, on July 23, 2026. New research suggests that dangerous conflagrations like the Gironde wildfire will become more common in the future. Credit: Julien De Rosa/AFP via Getty Images

Europe Faces Surging Wildfire Threat, New Research Shows

By Bob Berwyn

A firefighter works to secure the Moose Fire perimeter on Monday in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. Credit: Beaverhead-Deerlodge NF Wildland Fire Information

Recent Rain Slowed Southwestern Montana Wildfires. Now the Heat Is Returning.

By Mosabber Hossain

An air tanker drops fire retardant near Maverick Mountain Ski Area as crews work to slow the Sand Creek Fire in southwestern Montana on Aug. 12. Credit: Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Wildland Fire Information

Montana’s Sand Creek Fire Burns Through Into Beloved Ski Area

By Mosabber Hossain

Mina Guli runs through haze during her nearly 1,800-mile journey down the Colorado River on June 21. Credit: Andrew King

Wildfires and Extreme Heat Challenge Water Activist’s Attempt to Run the Length of the Colorado River

By Maya McDaniel

A firefighter faces a wall of flames as the Sandy Fire burns on May 19 in Simi Valley, Calif. Credit: Blake Fagan/AFP via Getty Images

California Officials Scrambled as Spring Wildfire Neared Former Nuclear Reactor Site, Emails Show

By Steven Rodas, Nina Dietz

Wildfire smoke blankets Philadelphia on June 7, 2023. Credit: Joe Lamberti/AFP via Getty Images

Pennsylvania Confronts an Unfamiliar Climate Hazard: Wildfire Smoke

By Marie Cusick

The Lolo Hotshots of the U.S. Forest Service on assignment in Manitoba, Canada, in June 2025. Credit: National Interagency Fire Center

Massive Wildfires Test the Limits of International Cooperation

By Nicholas Kusnetz

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