As wind-driven wildfires spread through the Los Angeles area in January 2025, fire-spotting technology and computer models ...

What Ignites Wildfires? Wildfires start with a seemingly harmless spark, but the consequences can be devastating. Lightning ...

Climate change is an intensifier — a force that amplifies and worsens existing conditions. It increases the probability that extreme conditions will compound and become unprecedented.

Burn marks left on trees show that fires occurred frequently in North America from 1750 to 1880, but they tended to be less severe than modern fires and may have even been beneficial to forests ...

For more than a century, conservation policy has focused on economic development and wisely using natural resources.

A variety of new technologies aim to improve wildfire detection and help map the spread of blazes Embers from the Eaton Fire ...

Extreme weather conditions will be more common, according to the study, adding fresh urgency to a burgeoning group of climate ...

New studies are finding the fingerprints of climate change in the Eaton and Palisades wildfires, which made some of extreme ...

California has just experienced one of its worst wildfire seasons in years, despite the Golden State's ample resources to ...

Tuesday's report, too rapid for peer-review yet, found global warming boosted the likelihood of high fire weather conditions ...

Extreme conditions helped fuel the fast-moving fires that destroyed thousands of homes. Scientists are working to figure out ...