Wildfires
The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty
By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff
Hope—and Many Fears—Follow in the Wake of Trump’s Plan to Transform Wildland Firefighting
By Kiley Price
Disaster Survivors Denounce Proposed FEMA Downsizing
By Anika Jane Beamer
LA Wildfire Survivors Want to Rebuild All-Electric, but a Utility Is Using Customer Funds to Incentivize Gas Appliances
By Hilary Beaumont
In Burned Forests, the West’s Snowpack Is Melting Earlier
By Mitch Tobin, The Water Desk
How Indigenous Cultural Burns Can Help Heal Climate-Ravaged Forests—and People
Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth
For Many Disabled Fire Victims in Los Angeles, a Continuing Trauma
Story and photos by Nina Dietz
Is Burying the Trees Killed by Wildfires a Climate Solution?
By Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan
Taking Stock in Altadena Nine Months After the Devastating LA Fires
Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth
Government Shutdown Could Disrupt Timing of Crucial Conservation and Wildfire Efforts
By Kiley Price
Natural Disasters Are a Rising Burden for the National Guard
By Marianne Lavelle
Detroit Is the Nation’s Most Challenging City for People with Asthma, a New Report Suggests
By K.R. Callaway
A Debate Heats Up over California’s ‘Zone Zero’ Rules to Cut Home Losses to Flammable Vegetation
By Blanca Begert
Nicholas Spada Spent Months Analyzing Smoke From the LA Fires. He Thinks People Have a Right to Know, and ‘Air Is Everything.’
Story and photos by Nina Dietz
Smoke From Wildfires Caused by Climate Change Will Fuel Many More Premature Deaths in the U.S., a New Study Warns
By Phil McKenna
Deforestation Threatens Public Health. Securing Indigenous Land Rights Can Help, Researchers Find
By Katie Surma
