Climate Wildfires
All Stories
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What is ‘fire weather,’ and why is it getting worse?
A new study of the American West shows that climate change is driving more days that are hot, dry, and windy — the perfect conditions for deadly wildfires.
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Outpaced: Wildfire control projects are burning up before they can even start
In California forests, climate change is moving faster than climate adaptation.
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Nonprofit finds hope against wildfires with unexpected ally: charcoal
To capture carbon and jumpstart forest thinning, Methow Valley couple – and Washington taxpayers – bet on biochar.
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A deadly fungal disease on the rise in the West has experts worried
Researchers haven’t pinned down exactly what’s behind the rise in Valley fever cases or how to stop it. One thing is nearly certain, though: Climate change plays a role.
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Wildfire smoke claims more than 33,000 lives each year, new study finds
And that number doesn't even account for long-term exposure.
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How one town put politics aside to save itself from fire
Timber Wars tore this town apart. Wildfire prevention brought it back together.
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No matter the fire risk, California insurance companies can’t cancel your policy
State officials have banned companies from revoking renewals of policies in high fire risk areas.
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Can burying power lines prevent California’s next big wildfire?
PG&E, one of the country’s largest utilities, wants to put 10,000 miles of lines underground.
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As California’s fire season ramps up, “unprecedented” is getting a lot of use
The Caldor and Dixie disasters are just a glimpse of what this fire season could hold.
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Welcome to the Pyrocene
We have created a planetary fire age. Now we have to live in it.