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

A lot of attention has been paid to how climate change can drive biodiversity loss. Now, MIT researchers have shown that the ...

The Creek Fire, in the Sierra National Forest in California, burned hundreds of thousands of acres in 2020. Its spread was fueled by many dead, dry trees; climate change contributed to both their ...

Bark beetles have impacted nearly 80% of Colorado’s pine forests, and yet ecologists say the devastation is a sign of climate ...

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

A climate change-induced surge in brief but intense thunderstorms poses a growing but underrecognized threat to trees in ...

Wildfires are currently raging in Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria amid a 44°C heatwave, ongoing droughts and strong winds. A map ...

Fires could turn the Amazon rainforest into a desert as human activity and climate change threaten ‘lungs of the world’, according to scientsits. It’s been a bad year for the Amazon, which ...

The California fires erupted amid extremely dry conditions. UCLA scientists say extreme heat linked to climate change was a factor in the fires' intensity.

As climate change is anticipated to increase the number and intensity of annual forest fires, the amount of iron deposited into oceans has been calculated to be 1.8 times greater than it is today.

New wildfires erupted along Turkey's Mediterranean coast on Friday, prompting the government to declare two western provinces ...

As climate change is anticipated to increase the number and intensity of annual forest fires, the amount of iron deposited into oceans has been calculated to be 1.8 times greater than it is today.