Using future climate scenarios based on wildfire damages in North America, scientists estimate that up to 10,000 or more ...

A team of researchers say that human-caused climate change had an important impact on the recent ferocious wildfires that engulfed parts of Chile and Argentina’s Patagonia region, making the extremely ...

Wildfires are among the most economically costly natural disasters and are becoming more severe and frequent due to global ...

Earth just endured one of its most extreme wildfire years on record — and scientists say human-driven climate change is the cause. A sweeping new analysis, the State of Wildfires 2024–25 report, finds ...

Human-driven climate change made wildfires in parts of South America and Southern California many times larger and more destructive, according to an annual assessment by international experts.

Researchers at the University of Washington published a study that shows that Indigenous-informed tree thinning efforts in the Cascades didn’t just help with wildfire control—it also increased ...

America’s national parks were conceived as sanctuaries from the forces remaking the rest of the continent. Climate change is now breaching that boundary. A recent assessment of park vulnerability ...

While the trend to more extreme fire weather days is well understood for many regions worldwide, a new study has identified the rising incidence of widespread concurrent extreme fire weather days ...

Simultaneous emergencies in different parts of the world could stop countries from sharing ground crews and equipment, new research warns.

New research shows that fires in northern forests are releasing far more carbon than global climate models have been tracking.

Jennifer Marlon, senior research scientist at the Yale School of the Environment, warned that the number of wildfires in Connecticut and the broader Northeast is “almost certainly going to rise” due ...