Their early findings suggest that wildfire smoke is broadly and especially toxic. Burning trees, soil, and vehicles can throw ...

The latest science on the link between climate change and natural disasters — and how they may be playing out where you live.

Climatologists and wildfire experts agree that human-caused climate change is worsening wildfires. Hotter, drier and windier weather can make it easier for wildfires to start and continue burning.

A wildfire burning in a sparsely populated region of central Oregon has become the largest fire this year and is on the verge ...

Climate change in the Western U.S. means more intense and frequent wildfires churning out waves of smoke that scientists say will sweep across the continent, affecting tens of millions of people ...

It's all on us. The recent decadeslong surge in catastrophic wildfires in California is almost entirely due to climate change, a new study published Monday reports. “We show that nearly all of ...

HAYHOE: Since the 1980s, due to climate change, wildfires have burned over twice the area than they would have normally because, of course, you get wildfires out West. That's just part of life in ...

Climate change fueled last year’s extreme wildfires — some more than others If emissions aren’t curbed, extreme wildfires could become six to 11 times more likely by the end of the century.

Greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from burning coal, oil and gas, have heated the planet by about 1.3 degrees Celsius since ...

As Earth’s climate continues to change from heat-trapping gases spewed into the air, ever fewer people are out of reach from the billowing and deadly fingers of wildfire smoke, scientists say.

Climate change is literally making the jet stream more wild. It undulates more, so you get those weather extremes, and it's causing the jet stream to slow down, so those extreme weather events ...

Unprecedented wildfires in Canada and parts of Amazonia last year were at least three times more likely due to climate change and contributed to high levels of CO2 emissions from burning globally ...