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 recent report from the Public Policy Institute of California found additionally that 60% were very concerned, a remarkable ...

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

In 2023 and 2024, the hottest years on record, more than 78 million acres of forests burned around the globe. The fires sent ...

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

"With climate change, high wind, less rain, and high heat here, there's an increased risk of wildfire risk,” Allen Kratz, the ...

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

While much of Western Canada, northern Ontario and Newfoundland burn this summer, there's a growing debate about whether ...

Wildfires have scorched hotspots in several Mediterranean countries this month, with blazes forcing thousands of people into ...

A new report from Gallagher Re, a leading reinsurance broker, has officially named the Palisades and Eaton fires two of the ...

Ground slumping in yedoma permafrost after a wildfire, in the interior of Alaska. Yedoma permafrost generally contains large ...

The Balkans have been pounded by storms, while wildfires broke out in Türkiye, Greece, Spain and France in the last week. View on euronews ...