Wildfires News
May 14, 2024
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May 9, 2024 The Canadian wildfires of June 2023 exposed a large portion of the Northeastern United States to unprecedented levels of smoke. A new model that combines wildfire smoke forecasts and data from ...
May 2, 2024 Climate change and human activities like deforestation are causing more fires in central and west Africa's wet, tropical forests, according to the first-ever comprehensive survey there. The fires have long been ...
Anthropologist Documents How Women and Shepherds Historically Reduced Wildfire Risk in Central Italy
Apr. 26, 2024 Fire management lessons from the past could help to improve resilience as the Mediterranean faces increased fire risk from climate change. How traditional land management practices once greatly ...
Apr. 24, 2024 As wildfires in Siberia become more common, global climate modeling estimates significant impacts on climate, air quality, health, and economies in East Asia and across the northern ...
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Apr. 17, 2024 During the unusually dry year of 2018, Sweden was hit by numerous forest fires. A research team has investigated how climate change affects recently burnt boreal forests and their ability to absorb ...
Apr. 16, 2024 Arctic and boreal latitudes are warming faster than any other region on ...
Apr. 16, 2024 By fueling the growth of plants that become kindling, carbon dioxide is driving an increase in the severity and frequency of wildfires, according to a new ...
Apr. 16, 2024 Fires that devastate wildland-urban interface areas are becoming more common around the globe, a trend that is likely to continue for at least the next two decades, new research finds. Such fires are ...
Mar. 25, 2024 A new study reveals how fire suppression ensures that wildfires will burn under extreme conditions at high severity, exacerbating the impacts of climate change and fuel ...
Mar. 2, 2024 The same weather system that led to the spread of the devastating Labor Day wildfires in 2020 brought record-breaking cold and early-season snowfall to parts of the Rocky Mountains. Now, new research ...
Feb. 28, 2024 Scientists uncover the intricate dance between drought, wildfires and invasive species in Southern California's coastal sage scrub ...
Feb. 22, 2024 Forests in the coolest, wettest parts of the western Pacific Northwest are likely to see the biggest increases in burn probability, fire size and ...
Feb. 20, 2024 A new studyshows wildfires lead to an increase of anxiety-related emergency department visits in the western United States, amplifying the concerning ...
Jan. 23, 2024 Inspired by a 1725 fire engine that pumped water at larger distances and higher speeds than previously possible, authors analyzed the pressure chamber's Windkessel effect to capture the physics ...
Earlier Headlines
Jan. 22, 2024 Air conditioning doesn't just cool the air -- it can also reduce the risk of harm from wildfire smoke, new research ...
Jan. 2, 2024 Wildfires create compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are formed in the combustion process at high temperatures. These compounds are highly toxic. New research examined how ...
Dec. 28, 2023 Forests on the west slope of Oregon's Cascade Range experienced fire much more often between 1500 and 1895 than had been previously ...
Dec. 18, 2023 New research suggests that air pollution may contribute to the development or worsening of skin conditions. The work points to the need to improve air quality to lower the burden of skin disease, ...
Dec. 18, 2023 Researchers examined 36 years of wildfire data in the eastern United States, focusing on fires that burned large areas. The overall trend for the region showed an increase in fire size, frequency, ...
Dec. 13, 2023 Researchers have shown that the effects of wildfires are not limited to terrestrial ecosystems. Aquatic ecosystems are also undergoing rapid changes. The study found that fire debris transforms lakes ...
Dec. 12, 2023 A 20-year experiment in the Sierra Nevada confirms that different forest management techniques -- prescribed burning, restoration thinning or a combination of both -- are effective at reducing the ...
Dec. 8, 2023 Wildfires are some of the most destructive natural disasters in the country, threatening lives, destroying homes and infrastructure, and creating air pollution. In order to properly forecast and ...
Dec. 4, 2023 A new study concludes that wildfires originating in the western United States and Canada have erased air quality gains over the past two decades and caused an increase of premature deaths in ...
Dec. 4, 2023 Utah's variable topography produces a tremendous range of wildfire behavior, according to new ...
Nov. 30, 2023 Flames roared through Santa Barbara County in late 2017. UC Santa Barbara canceled classes, and the administration recommended donning an N95, long before the COVID pandemic made the mask a household ...
Nov. 21, 2023 In 2020 and 2021, California experienced fire activity unlike anything recorded in the modern record. When the smoke cleared, the amount of burned forest totaled ten times more than the annual ...
Nov. 16, 2023 A new paper pinpoints obstacles and suggests strategies for getting more prescribed fire on the ground in the wildfire-prone U.S. ...
Nov. 13, 2023 Wildfires and drought have led to $11.2 billion in damages to privately held timberland in California, Oregon and Washington over the past two decades, a new Oregon State University study ...
Nov. 10, 2023 High-intensity, often catastrophic, wildfires have become increasingly frequent across the Western U.S. Researchers quantified the value of managed low-intensity burning to dramatically reduce the ...
Lightning Identified as the Leading Cause of Wildfires in Boreal Forests, Threatening Carbon Storage
Nov. 9, 2023 Most wildfires in boreal forests, such as those in Canada, are caused by lightning strikes, according to a study aimed at attributing fire ignition sources ...
Nov. 8, 2023 Analyses of U.S. national forests shows that increased protections for two Alaskan forests is a key to meeting climate and biodiversity ...
Nov. 3, 2023 Researchers studied how young trees respond to a hotter, drier climate. Their findings can help shape forest management policy and our understanding of how landscapes will ...
Oct. 23, 2023 Using satellite images, researchers found that fires in North America's boreal forest may be changing the environment in ways that researchers didn't previously ...
Oct. 17, 2023 Using lake sediment cores, scientists determined how these subalpine ecosystems recovered after 4,800 years of ...
Monday, January 22, 2024
Tuesday, January 2, 2024
Thursday, December 28, 2023
Monday, December 18, 2023
- Spike in Dermatology Visits for Skin Problems Seen During Summer of Wildfires
- Wildfires Increasing Across Eastern U.S.
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Friday, December 8, 2023
Monday, December 4, 2023
- Wildfires Have Erased Two Decades' Worth of Air Quality Gains in Western United States
- Strange Burn: New Research Identifies Unique Patterns in Utah Wildfires
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Monday, November 13, 2023
Friday, November 10, 2023
Thursday, November 9, 2023
- Lightning Identified as the Leading Cause of Wildfires in Boreal Forests, Threatening Carbon Storage
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Friday, November 3, 2023
Monday, October 23, 2023
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Monday, October 16, 2023
Friday, October 13, 2023
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
- Simultaneous Large Wildfires Will Increase in Western U.S.
- Extreme Fires and Heavy Rainfall Driving Platypuses from Their Homes
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Monday, October 2, 2023
Monday, September 25, 2023
- Scientists Reveal What Fuels Wildfires in Sierra Nevada Mountains
- By Air, Rain and Land: How Microbes Return After a Wildfire
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
- Socially Vulnerable Populations Are Disproportionately Exposed to Wildfires in the Western US
- Alarming Results from World First Study of Two Decades of Global Smoke Pollution
Monday, September 18, 2023
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Monday, August 21, 2023
Thursday, August 17, 2023
Monday, August 14, 2023
- Dry Lightning Can Spark Wildfires Even Under Wetter Conditions
- Wildfires and Farming Activities May Be Top Sources of Air Pollution Linked to Increased Risk, Cases of Dementia
Monday, August 7, 2023
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
- Picturing Where Wildlands and People Meet at a Global Scale
- Understanding the Many Different Ways Animals Are Evolving in Response to Fire Could Help Conservation Efforts
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
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Wednesday, July 12, 2023
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Monday, July 3, 2023
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Thursday, May 18, 2023
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Monday, April 17, 2023
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
- New Model Provides Improved Air-Quality Predictions in Fire-Prone Areas
- A Mechanistic and Probabilistic Method for Predicting Wildfires
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
- Smoke Particles from Wildfires Can Erode the Ozone Layer
- To Help Dry Forests, Fire Needs to Be Just the Right Intensity, and Happen More Than Once
Friday, March 3, 2023
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
- Wildfires Are Increasingly Burning California's Snowy Landscapes and Colliding With Winter Droughts to Shrink California's Snowpack
- Western Wildfires Destroying More Homes Per Square Mile Burned
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Friday, January 20, 2023
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
- In the Wake of a Wildfire, Embers of Change in Cognition and Brain Function Linger
- What's Driving Re-Burns Across California and the West?
Monday, January 16, 2023
Thursday, December 22, 2022
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
Thursday, December 8, 2022
- Climate Whiplash Increased Wildfires on California's West Coast About 8,000 Years Ago
- Americans Flocking to Fire: National Migration Study
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Monday, November 28, 2022
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Monday, October 24, 2022
- Prescribed Fire Could Reduce Tick Populations and Pathogen Transmission
- Forest Recovery After Montana's 2017 Fire Season
Thursday, October 20, 2022
- After 2018 'Woolsey Wildfire,' Los Angeles' Mountain Lions Are Taking More Risks
- Western Wildfires Spark Stronger Storms in Downwind States