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Wildfires

Fossil Fuel Companies and Cement Manufacturers Could Be to Blame for a More Than a Third of West’s Wildfires

A new study from the Union of Concerned Scientists links emissions from the world’s largest carbon producers to nearly 20 million acres of forests burning in Western North America since 1986.

By Wyatt Myskow

Adam Norris surveys the wildfire damage at his home in Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada, on May 8, 2023. - Canada struggled on Monday to control wildfires that have forced thousands to flee, halted oil production and threatens to raze towns, with the western province of Alberta calling for federal help. Credit: Walter Tychnowicz / AFP via Getty Images
A woman and her children cross the street at the intersection of Fruitvale Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard in the Dimond District of Oakland, California, on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. Credit: Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images

As Extreme Fires Multiply, California Scientists Zero In on How Smoke Affects Pregnancy and Children

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Two patches of land sit in a dried up lake bed in 2022. These were once islands in Laguna de Aculeoa, a popular freshwater lake for fishing, boating and swimming, just an hour from Santiago, Chile. The lake dried up completely in 2018 due to the ongoing megadrought.

More Than a Decade of Megadrought Brought a Summer of Megafires to Chile

Story and Photos by James Whitlow Delano

This aerial picture taken from an airplane on July 27, 2021, shows the smoke rising from a forest fire outside the village of Berdigestyakh, in the republic of Sakha, Siberia. Credit: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images

Wildfires in Northern Forests Broke Carbon Emissions Records in 2021

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

A forest fire in Louchats, southwestern France, on July 17, 2022. Credit: Thibaud Moritz/AFP via Getty Images

Increasingly Large and Intense Wildfires Hinder Western Forests’ Ability to Regenerate

By Bob Berwyn

Smoke from Southern California wildfires moves towards the Pacific Ocean, creating spectacular dark skies as a local on Oxnard Shores Beach California captures the moment on Nov. 9, 2018. Credit: Paul Harris/Getty Images

Wildfire Smoke May Worsen Extreme Blazes Near Some Coasts, According to New Research

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Firefighters spray down hot spots during the Mosquito Fire on Sept. 14, 2022 in Foresthill, California. Credit: Eric Thayer/Getty Images

Wildfires Are Burning State Budgets

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Cal Fire firefighters battle the Oak Fire on July 23, 2022 near Mariposa, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

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

Smoke billows to the sky above where fires are spreading near houses Oct. 22, 2007 in Stevenson Ranch, California. Credit: J. Emilio Flores/Getty Images

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

By Grace van Deelen

Pascale Fisher, a family nurse practitioner, checks a baby’s heartbeat at La Clínica's San Antonio Neighborhood Health Center in Oakland. Credit: Ana Homonnay/La Clínica de La Raza, Inc.

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

By Victoria St. Martin

Torched cars sit amid the cinders and ash that remain from the Lincoln Heights neighborhood below the Roseburg Forest Products lumber mill and Mount Shasta in Weed, California. The Mill Fire destoyed the historic Black neighborhood in early September. Credit: Michael Kodas

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

A firefighter works on putting out a hotspot from a wildfire on Friday May 13, 2022 in Mora, New Mexico as the Calf Canyon and Hermits Peak fires burn in the region. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

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

Lorraine Capolungo near the site of her mobile home in the Creekside Mobile Home Park, which burned in the Cache Fire in Clearlake, California. Credit: Michael Kodas

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

On the last day of summer, fall colors contrast with the burnt landscape of the Cameron Peak Fire on Sept. 21, 2021 in Larimer County, Colorado. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

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

Flames and heavy smoke approach on a western front of the Apple Fire, consuming brush and forest at a high rate of speed during an excessive heat warning on Aug. 1, 2020 in Cherry Valley, California. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

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

By Bob Berwyn

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