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Wildfires Are Burning State Budgets

A new report shows the complex system used to pay wildfire costs is leaving states unable to pay firefighting bills and underfunding mitigation efforts as they await reimbursement from federal agencies.

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Snapshots, Hotshots and Moonshots: Images of Climate Change in 2022

By Katelyn Weisbrod

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

Despite a Changing Climate, Americans Are ‘Flocking to Fire’

By Grace van Deelen

New Toolkit of Health Guidance Helps Patients and Care Providers on the Front Lines of Climate Change Prepare for Wildfires

By Victoria St. Martin

A Timber Mill Below Mount Shasta Gave Rise to a Historic Black Community, and Likely Sparked the Wildfire That Destroyed It

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

The US Forest Service Planned to Increase Burning to Prevent Wildfires. Will a Pause on Prescribed Fire Instead Bring More Delays?

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Guadalupe Ruiz, 25, leads an all-women wildland fire crew back to their training center in Yosemite National Park in August 2022. Credit: Jennifer Emerling for The 19th

This Program is Blazing a Trail for Women in Wildland Firefighting

By Jessica Kutz, The 19th

Mobile Homes, the Last Affordable Housing Option for Many California Residents, Are Going Up in Smoke

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Fires smolder in recently burned areas near the Taimá Ecological Reservation and the Paraguai river. The lack of rains in 2020 deepened a drought that allowed wildfires and burns intentionally set to clear land for farms and ranches to explode over an unprecedented amount of land in Brazil's Pantanal wetland that year. Credit: Pablo Albarenga

In Brazil, the World’s Largest Tropical Wetland Has Been Overwhelmed With Unprecedented Fires and Clouds of Propaganda

By Jill Langlois

Western Forests, Snowpack and Wildfires Appear Trapped in a Vicious Climate Cycle

By Bob Berwyn

The Windy Fire blazes through the Long Meadow Grove of giant sequoia trees near The Trail of 100 Giants overnight in Sequoia National Forest on Sept. 21, 2021 near California Hot Springs, California. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

In California, a Race to Save the World’s Largest Trees From Megafires

By Twilight Greenaway

Wildfire Pollution May Play a Surprising Role in the Fate of Arctic Sea Ice

By Bob Berwyn

Search and rescue teams scramble to evacuate patients as the Feather River Hospital burns during the Camp fire in Paradise, California, on Nov. 8, 2018. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images

In Climate-Driven Disasters, Older People and the Disabled Are Most at Risk. Now In-Home Caregivers Are Being Trained in How to Help Them

By Katie Rodriguez

A power pole that has split after the CZU Lightning Complex fire rolled through the area leans precariously over Empire Grade in Bonny Doon, California on Aug. 20, 2020. Credit: Shmuel Thaler/MediaNews Group/Santa Cruz Sentinel via Getty Images

Is Burying Power Lines Fire-Prevention Magic, or Magical Thinking?

By Angela K. Evans

Lack of Loggers Is Hobbling Arizona Forest-Thinning Projects That Could Have Slowed This Year’s Devastating Wildfires

By Andrew Onodera

In the US West, Researchers Consider a Four-Legged Tool to Fight Two Foes: Wildfire and Cheatgrass

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Sierra Crean, 16, holds her sister Colby, 15, outside their Louisville home. They lived in Louisville with their parents, Tim and Joanna, and two dogs, Ozzie and Jackson. Now, when Sierra has hard days, she misses home. She used to babysit kids in the neighborhood, but now she rarely sees them. "This is the only home I can remember," she said. Now "it's like a distant place you didn't know."

‘Stripped of Everything,’ Survivors of Colorado’s Most Destructive Fire Face Slow Recoveries and a Growing Climate Threat

Story and Photos by Melissa Bailey

Emergency crews battle a wildfire on April 19, 2011 in Strawn, Texas. Credit: Tom Pennington/Getty Images

Texas’ Wildfire Risks, Amplified by Climate Change, Are Second Only to California’s

By Delger Erdenesanaa, The Texas Observer

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