Wildfires

As Climate Disasters Create an Insurance Crisis, a California Bill Seeks to Make Fossil Fuel Companies Pay

Premiums “have gone through the roof” and insurers have been leaving the state as the costs of disasters soar amid worsening extreme weather.

By Steven Rodas

Maui Mental Health Providers Face Stress and Uncertainty About State Jobs

By Keerti Gopal

Forest Service Shake-Up Comes As Risky Wildfire Season Looms

By Marianne Lavelle

The Warm, Dry Winter Has Left Firefighters in Wyoming Nervous

By Jake Bolster

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

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