New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham officially requested a presidential disaster declaration on Tuesday to assist in fighting and recovering from the drought-fueled wildfires incinerating large swaths of the state. At least
Wildfires are burning across the Southwest, including in Arizona, Nebraska, and New Mexico. Over the last week, the Tunnel Fire has burned at least 150,000 acres, killing at least one person, damaging
Multiple wildfires are blazing across the Florida Panhandle, burning thousands of acres, forcing evacuations, and incinerating homes. The largest, the Bertha Swamp Road Fire, has burned more than 14,000 acres. Climate change
Wildfires, supercharged by climate change, produced a record amount of planet-warming CO2 in 2021, European scientists reported Monday. Fires in the U.S., Siberia, and Turkey together emitted 1.76 billion tons of CO2,
The number of hot days that carry greatly increased risk of wildfire spread and ignition in California's Sierra Nevada mountains will increase because of climate change, new research shows. The study, published
Wind-whipped fires are burning in Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. In November. Montana, communities in and around Absarokee were evacuated as hurricane-force winds fueled a blaze that burned as much as 5,000 acres
Incarcerated juveniles, mostly Black and Brown, are being used to fight wildfires across the U.S. for as little as $1.00 per hour, Atmos reports, as experts doubt the justice and restorative and
Smoke from wildfires burning across the American West causes greater health damage east of the Rockies than to their west, a new study shows. About three-quarters of deaths and asthma visits to
Across the country, people are breathing in more harmful smoke than before due to climate change-driven wildfires, threatening their health, an InsideClimateNews investigation based on an analysis of federal satellite imagery found.
While firefighters have made progress on two of the largest fires in California history, both the Dixie and Caldor Fires continue to burn though grim milestones. The Dixie fire has burned more
As many as 7,000 babies were born prematurely because of exposure to wildfire smoke between 2007 and 2012, new research from Stanford discovered. The study, published in Environmental Research, found the more
Northern California is under a siege of wildfires and smoke, fueled by drought and heat made worse by human-caused climate change, and the list of cities and towns under evacuation orders is
Smoke from wildfires can make people more susceptible to catching COVID – and dying from it. Over 700 more people died and nearly 20,000 more were infected with the virus than would
Wildfires in Algeria have killed at least 65 people and incinerated homes, olive tree orchards, and livestock and formed pyrocumulonimbus clouds visible from space in the Berber region of Kabyle, east of
As if to punctuate the IPCC’s warning of climate-fueled extreme weather events, wildfires have raged across half a million acres of Greece for the past week, killing at least a dozen, destroying
As the Senate moves forward in passing a bipartisan infrastructure bill largely stripped of provisions to address the climate crisis climate-fueled wildfires are raging around the globe. Hot, dry, and windy conditions
What happens in the West definitely is not staying there as smoke from wildfires fueled by climate change blankets the Eastern U.S. with dangerous air pollution. New York City's air quality was
Wildfires fueled by extreme heat and drought continue to rage across the West Coast. Climate change exacerbates drought and heatwaves that set the stage for massive conflagrations, like the Sugar Fire in
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met (virtually) with a bipartisan group of Western governors yesterday to discuss preparations for this year’s wildfire season, which is expected to be especially severe
Wildfire damage is threatening drinking water supplies across the West long after the blazes are put out, the New York Times reports. Increasingly vicious wildfires, fueled by climate change, are exposing huge