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A firefighter from Windsor, California, walks next to a wall of flames as he starts a back fire in tall dry grass while battling the Rocky Fire on July 30, 2015 in Lower Lake, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

In the US West, Researchers Consider a Four-Legged Tool to Fight Two Foes: Wildfire and Cheatgrass

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Sierra Crean, 16, holds her sister Colby, 15, outside their Louisville home. They lived in Louisville with their parents, Tim and Joanna, and two dogs, Ozzie and Jackson. Now, when Sierra has hard days, she misses home. She used to babysit kids in the neighborhood, but now she rarely sees them. "This is the only home I can remember," she said. Now "it's like a distant place you didn't know."

‘Stripped of Everything,’ Survivors of Colorado’s Most Destructive Fire Face Slow Recoveries and a Growing Climate Threat

Story and Photos by Melissa Bailey

Emergency crews battle a wildfire on April 19, 2011 in Strawn, Texas. Credit: Tom Pennington/Getty Images

Texas’ Wildfire Risks, Amplified by Climate Change, Are Second Only to California’s

By Delger Erdenesanaa, The Texas Observer

Crew works on seepage of more than 900,000 gallons of oil and brine water oil from an abandoned well in Chevron Corps Cymric Oil Field that has transformed a dry creek bed into a black lagoon July 24, 2019 near McKittrick, California. Credit: Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

What Does Climate Justice in California Look Like?

By Liza Gross

Smoke from the East Troublesome Fire fills the sky above buildings in Estes Park on Oct. 22, 2020. Credit: Matthew Jonas/MediaNews Group/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images

Deadly ‘Smoke Waves’ From Wildfires Set to Soar

By Bob Berwyn

A helicopter drops water onto a large bushfire in Bargo, southwest of Sydney on Dec. 19, 2019. Credit: Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images

Recent Megafire Smoke Columns Have Reached the Stratosphere, Threatening Earth’s Ozone Shield

By Bob Berwyn

Firefighters try to keep flames from burning home from spreading to a neighboring apartment complex as they battle the Camp Fire on November 9, 2018 in Paradise, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Shining a Light on Suicide Risk for Wildland Firefighters

By Liza Gross

Firefighter and volunteers use a water hose near a burning blaze trying to extinguish a fire in the village of Glatsona on Evia island in Greece on Aug. 9, 2021. Credit: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP via Getty Images

Global Wildfire Activity to Surge in Coming Years

By Bob Berwyn

The Marshall Fire continues to burn out of control on Dec. 30, 2021 in Broomfield, Colorado. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Colorado’s Suburban Firestorm Shows the Threat of Climate-Driven Wildfires is Moving Into Unusual Seasons and Landscapes

By Bob Berwyn

A wildfire burns in the Port Hills in Victoria Park above Christchurch, New Zealand, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. New research studying carbon deposited in glacial ice in Antarctica indicates that land-clearing fires set by the Māori people of New Zealand before the Industrial Revolution may have had a larger impact on the climate than previously believed. Credit: Matias Delacroix/NurPhoto via Getty Images

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

By Bob Berwyn

A firefighting helicopter flies past smoke plumes after making a water drop during the Dixie Fire on Aug. 18, 2021 near Susanville, California. Credit: Patrick T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images

Dangerous Air: As California Burns, America Breathes Toxic Smoke

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

Burned olive trees in Northern Evia on Aug. 27, 2021. Credit: Moira Lavelle

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

By Moira Lavelle

A farmworker carries a box of broccoli in a field on Jan. 22, 2021 in Calexico, California. Credit: Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images

Fires Fuel New Risks to California Farmworkers

By Liza Gross

A woman walks her dog, under smoke from California fires on Nov. 9, 2018. Credit: Paul Harris/Getty Images

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

Farmworkers harvest cucumbers at Full Belly Farm in Guinda, California. Credit: Liza Gross

Farming Without a Net

By Liza Gross

Smoke rises from an illegally lit fire in a section of Amazon rainforest, south of Novo Progresso in Para state, Brazil, on Aug. 15, 2020. Credit: Carl De Souza/AFP via Getty Images

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

By Georgina Gustin

Smoke and flames rise as firefighters, locals and volunteers try extinguish a wildfire, near Vilia Village, Western Athens, Greece, on Aug. 18, 2021. Credit: Nick Paleologos/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Europe Seeks Solutions as it Grapples With Catastrophic Wildfires

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

The Glass Fire burns near the Jericho Canyon Vineyard and Winery about a mile out of downtown Calistoga, California, on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Credit: Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images

Wildfire Smoke: An Emerging Threat to West Coast Wines

By Liza Gross

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