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The Jennings Creek wildfire burned over 5,000 acres across New York and New Jersey and took 14 days to contain. Credit: Kena Betancur/Getty Images

New York Isn’t Ready to Fight More Wildfires

By Nathan Porceng, New York Focus

Firefighters with the North Fork Fire Protection District add water to burned townhomes on Jan. 1, 2022 after the Marshall Fire swept through Superior, Colo. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Insurance Insiders Say Regulation and Mitigation Can Keep the Industry from Retreating in Colorado

By Tim Drugan

Heather McTeer Toney, executive director of Beyond Petrochemicals, has spent her career working to protect Mississippi from industrial pollution. Credit: Timothy Ivy

Climate Change ‘Burnout’ Is Taking Its Toll

By Nina Dietz

In a Parched US, Human-Triggered Wildfires Are Poised to Thrive

By Kiley Price

A Plumas Hotshots fire crew work to fight the Park Fire near Tehama County's Mill Creek area in California on Aug. 7. The fire burned some 429,603 acres according to Cal Fire. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images

Climate Change Has Dangerously Supercharged Fires, Hurricanes, Floods and Heat Waves. Why Didn’t It Come Up More in the Presidential Campaign?

By Kiley Bense, Georgina Gustin, Liza Gross, Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna

A view of the Popo Agie river as it flows towards Lander, Wyo. Credit: Jake Bolster/Inside Climate News

Hindered Wildfire Responses, Costlier Agriculture Likely If Trump Dismantles NOAA, Experts Warn

By Jake Bolster

Firefighters arrive to extinguish a wildfire on Sept. 24 in Concepcion, Bolivia. Credit: Rodrigo Urzagasti/AFP via Getty Images

Bolivia Has National Rights of Nature Laws. Why Haven’t They Been Enforced?

By Katie Surma

The increasing number and severity of natural disasters like wildfires and hurricanes have cast home insurance markets into turmoil, leading to an explosive rise in premiums. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images via Grist

Climate Impacts Put Insurance Commissioner Races in the Spotlight

By Jesse Nichols, Grist

CalFire manages a prescribed controlled burn in Northern California on Nov. 14, 2023. Wildfire prevention, among other climate solutions, is on the state's ballot as Proposition 4. Credit: Penny Collins/NurPhoto via Getty Images

California Ballot Asks Voters to Invest in Climate Solutions

By Liza Gross

The sun sets behind the mountains at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, shrouded in smoke from regional wildfires on July 14, 2021. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

With Wyoming’s Regional Haze Plan ‘Partially Rejected,’ Conservationists Await Agency’s Final Proposal

By Jake Bolster

Aquatic Ecosystems Aren’t Immune to Wildfire Impacts, Research Shows

By Kiley Price

Residents flee Green Valley Lake, California, under a mandatory evacuation order as the Line Fire burns through the San Bernardino National Forest on Sept. 10. Credit: Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

‘Weather Whiplash’ Helped Drive This Year’s California Wildfires

By Caroline Marshall Reinhart

A firefighters extinguishes flames near State Road 172 as the Park Fire burns on Aug. 7 in Mill Creek, California. Credit: Ethan Swope/Getty Images

In the Park Fire, an Indigenous Cultural Fire Practitioner Sees Beyond Destruction

By Sarah Hopkins

Ecologist Hugh Safford holds a sugar pine cone for size comparison on the Pacific Crest Trail near Quincy, California. Credit: Bing Lin/Inside Climate News

A Path Through Scorched Earth Teaches How a Fire Deficit Helped Fuel California’s Conflagrations

By Bing Lin

In an aerial view, lots that have been cleared of wildfire debris, covered in gray gravel, are seen as vehicles pass along a newly reopened stretch of Honoapi'ilani Highway on August 3 in Lahaina, Hawaii. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Disaster Recovery Is a Delicate Act of Balancing Priorities

By Mathilde Augustin

The Pacific Crest Trail footpath snakes along a mountain ridge south of Donner Summit, California, as a hiker climbs up the trail. Credit: Bing Lin/Inside Climate News

First Snow, then Heat Interrupt a Hike From Mexico to Canada, as Climate Complicates an Iconic Adventure

By Bing Lin

Supercharged by Climate Change, Western Megafires Explode Simultaneously

By Kiley Price

The Windy Fire blazes through the Long Meadow Grove of giant sequoia trees in California’s Sequoia National Forest on Sept. 21, 2021. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Fire Once Helped Sequoias Reproduce. Now, it’s Killing the Groves

By Caroline Marshall Reinhart

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