Wildfires

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

A new study adds to the evidence that forest clearing and the spread of agriculture affected the Earth’s atmosphere and temperature earlier than previously believed.

By Bob Berwyn

Dangerous Air: As California Burns, America Breathes Toxic Smoke

By Alison Saldanha, Farida Jhabvala Romero, Caleigh Wells and Aaron Glantz

The Fires That Raged on This Greek Island Are Out. Now Northern Evia Faces a Long Road to Recovery

By Moira Lavelle

Fires Fuel New Risks to California Farmworkers

By Liza Gross

Warming Trends: Indoor Air Safer From Wildfire Smoke, a Fish Darts off the Endangered List and Dragonflies Showing the Heat in the UK

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Farming Without a Net

By Liza Gross

In the Amazon, the World’s Largest Reservoir of Biodiversity, Two-Thirds of Species Have Lost Habitat to Fire and Deforestation

By Georgina Gustin

Europe Seeks Solutions as it Grapples With Catastrophic Wildfires

By Anna Gross, Daniel Dombey and Eleni Varvitsioti, ​​Financial Times

Wildfire Smoke: An Emerging Threat to West Coast Wines

By Liza Gross

Exploding California Wildfires Rekindle Debate Over Whether to Snuff Out Blazes in Wilderness Areas or Let Them Burn

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

US Forest Fires Threaten Carbon Offsets as Company-Linked Trees Burn

By Camilla Hodgson, Financial Times

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

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Warming Trends: Global Warming Means Happier Rattlesnakes, What the Future Holds for Yellowstone and Fire Experts Plead for a Quieter Fourth

By Katelyn Weisbrod, Georgina Gustin

Q&A: With Climate Change-Fueled Hurricanes and Wildfire on the Horizon, a Trauma Expert Offers Ways to Protect Your Mental Health

By James Bruggers

As Extreme Weather Batters America’s Farm Country, Costing Billions, Banks Ignore the Financial Risks of Climate Change

By Georgina Gustin

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

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

Fueled by Climate Change, Wildfires Threaten Toxic Superfund Sites

By Michael Kodas, David Hasemyer

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

By Ilana Cohen

Vintners and Farmers Are Breathing Easier After the Demise of Proposition 15, a ‘Headache’ at Best

By Evelyn Nieves