Wildfires

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

The effects on agriculture of more frequent and intense natural disasters could overwhelm lenders, destabilize the food supply and disrupt the global economy.

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

Clouds of Concern Linger as Wildfires Drag into Flu Season and Covid Numbers Swell

By Judy Fahys

The Biggest Threat to Growing Marijuana in California Used to Be the Law. Now, it’s Climate Change

By Evelyn Nieves

Battered, Flooded and Submerged: Many Superfund Sites are Dangerously Threatened by Climate Change

By DAVID HASEMYER, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS, AND LISE OLSEN, TEXAS OBSERVER

The Society of Professional Journalists Recognizes “American Climate” for Distinguished Reporting

By Vernon Loeb

Senate 2020: In Colorado, Where Climate Matters, Hickenlooper is Favored to Unseat Gardner

By Judy Fahys

Smoke From Western Wildfires Darkens the Skies of the East Coast and Europe

By Ilana Cohen

A Most ‘Sustainable’ Vineyard in a ‘Completely Unsustainable’ Year

By Evelyn Nieves

Text: Joe Biden on Climate Change, ‘a Global Crisis That Requires American Leadership’

Biden Puts Climate Change at Center of Presidential Campaign, Calling Trump a ‘Climate Arsonist’

By Marianne Lavelle

Huge Western Fires in 1910 Changed US Wildfire Policy. Will Today’s Conflagrations Do the Same?

By Michael Kodas

As Wildfire Smoke Blots Out the Sun in Northern California, Many Ask: ‘Where Are the Birds?’

By Deborah Petersen

A Siege of 80 Large, Uncontained Wildfires Sweeps the Hot, Dry West

By Michael Kodas

10 Days of Climate Extremes: From Record Heat to Wildfires to the One-Two Punch of Hurricane Laura

By Bob Berwyn

The Fires May be in California, but the Smoke, and its Health Effects, Travel Across the Country

By Evelyn Nieves, Michael Kodas