A new report highlights the growing insurance crisis playing out in parts of the country that are prone to frequent weather ...

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

Anyone near the Dry Creek Trail, along Lake Cushman's westernmost shores, should evacuate immediately, the Mason County ...

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Fires are raging in Spain, Portugal and Greece, but have proven most deadly in western Turkey this summer. The World’s Durrie Bouscaren reports from the countryside outside the city of Bursa on how ...

Climate change is now primary driver of biodiversity loss in the US: Study For the first time, a new study finds climate change is now the primary driver of biodiversity loss in the United States.

“With climate change accelerating, these ecosystems are being reshaped in ways that make them more fire-susceptible,” Bonakdari said. — Steve Howe reports on weather, climate and the Great ...

But as climate change makes our landscapes hotter and drier, wildfires are getting bigger and more destructive. Fire consumed 8.9 million acres across the U.S. last year.

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 ...

"Climate-driven fires arise from more favorable weather conditions for fire, such as low humidity and high temperatures, which in turn are influenced by anthropogenic climate change. Understanding ...

The paper, “ Impacts of Climate Change on Land Management and Wildland Fire Smoke in the Southeastern United States,” is published open access in the journal Environmental Research Letters.