Researchers have shown that plumes of wildfire smoke can carry contaminants hundreds of kilometers, leaving a toxic and ...

What Ignites Wildfires? Wildfires start with a seemingly harmless spark, but the consequences can be devastating. Lightning is a natural culprit, setting vegetation ablaze during thunderstorms.

Burn marks left on trees show that fires occurred frequently in North America from 1750 to 1880, but they tended to be less severe than modern fires and may have even been beneficial to forests ...

Climate change is an intensifier — a force that amplifies and worsens existing conditions. It increases the probability that extreme conditions will compound and become unprecedented.

That is a terrible idea, full stop. Lawmakers shouldn’t use the fires as an excuse to slow down on clean energy — not when scientists say humanity must slash emissions much faster to keep the climate ...

A variety of new technologies aim to improve wildfire detection and help map the spread of blazes Embers from the Eaton Fire fly down a residential street in Altadena, California, on January 8. Robyn ...

A new attribution analysis found that climate heating caused by burning fossil fuels significantly increased the likelihood ...

WASHINGTON — Human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that ...

Extreme weather conditions will be more common, according to the study, adding fresh urgency to a burgeoning group of climate ...

New studies are finding the fingerprints of climate change in the Eaton and Palisades wildfires, which made some of extreme ...

Researchers say that long-term exposure to high levels of air pollution, particularly wildfire smoke, is linked to dementia.

California residents have switched to a state-backed “last resort” insurance plan that is now facing staggering loss ...