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The Bear Gulch fire continues to burn along Lake Cushman, backing toward the popular Staircase area of Olympic National Park.
A lot of attention has been paid to how climate change can drive biodiversity loss. Now, MIT researchers have shown that the ...
A climate change-induced surge in brief but intense thunderstorms poses a growing but underrecognized threat to trees in ...
Bark beetles have impacted nearly 80% of Colorado’s pine forests, and yet ecologists say the devastation is a sign of climate ...
In 2023 and 2024, the hottest years on record, more than 78 million acres of forests burned around the globe. The fires sent ...
Forest fires are already a global threat. "But considering how climate change is progressing, we are probably only at the beginning of a future that will see more and bigger forest fires ...
A forest fire burns in the distance in Canada’s Northwest Territories. New research suggests that zombie fires, which smolder underground through winter months, could increase as climate change ...
New research shows that the global models used to project how Earth's climate will change in the future underestimate the impact of forest fires and drying climate on forests' ability to capture ...
Debating whether climate change or forest management has caused the devastating wildfires in California, Washington and Oregon is a false choice.
Human-made climate change doubled forest fires over the last three decades, a new study says. Here's what people can and can't do to fight these blazes in the future.