Hotter and drier conditions driven by climate change are leading to an increasing number of wildfires in North America and ...

Significant losses were in remote forests, far from human activities. That isolation suggests that fires are increasing primarily because of climate change, said Calum Cunningham, a fire geographer at ...

Maher is a longtime Canadian political journalist and the author of The Prince, The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau. A wildfire burns behind an abandoned truck on Alberta Highway 63 near Fort ...

A new study, led by CMCC and Coventry University, reveals that climate change will dramatically expand wildfire danger across ...

Just a stone’s throw from the venue for COP30, large swaths of the rainforest continue to be destroyed for farms and mines ...

Forest fires have historically been viewed as catastrophic events. Thanks to climate change, forest fires are now a threat for much longer periods of the year, rather than being limited to the ...

In an update to the joint UNESCO-WRI-IUCN report “World Heritage forests: carbon sinks under pressure”, new data reveals that fires have accounted for approximately 75% of tree cover loss in World ...

During this summer of hazy views, unhealthy air quality and canceled outdoor events, it's hard to miss the effects of wildfire smoke. Now, some Midwest lawmakers are directing blame at what they see ...

The 2021 fire season is already setting records. The current wildfire preparedness level of 4 is the highest it has been this early in the season, and researchers are finding it is due to climate ...

In 2023 and 2024, the hottest years on record, more than 78 million acres of forests burned around the world. The fires sent veils of smoke and several billion tons of carbon dioxide into the ...