Tag: wildfire risk
Fireworks, heat and drought make this July 4th a recipe for wildfires
Lauren Lowman, Wake Forest University
Across the United States, the sky will be erupting with fireworks on July 4,...
Heat waves increase wildfire risk – a new study explains how...
Dmitri Kalashnikov, University of California, Merced; Cong Yin, University of California, Merced; Madhulika Gurazada, University of California, Merced, and Mukesh Kumar, University...
2026’s historic snow drought brings worries about water, wildfires and the...
Alejandro N. Flores, Boise State University
Across much of the Western United States, winter 2026 was the year the...
LA fires: Chemicals from the smoke lingered inside homes long after...
Yifang Zhu, University of California, Los Angeles
When wildfires began racing through the Los Angeles area on Jan. 7,...
LA fires showed how much neighborliness matters for wildfire safety –...
Elizabeth A. Logan, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and William Deverell, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Boosting timber harvesting in national forests while cutting public oversight won’t...
Courtney Schultz, Colorado State University; Forrest Fleischman, University of Minnesota, and Tony Cheng, Colorado State University
The western United...
3 years after the Marshall Fire: Wildfire smoke’s health risks can...
Colleen E. Reid, University of Colorado Boulder
Three years ago, on Dec. 30, 2021, a wind-driven wildfire raced through...
Forest Service warns of budget cuts ahead of a risky wildfire...
Camille Stevens-Rumann, Colorado State University and Jude Bayham, Colorado State University
A wet winter and spring followed by a...
EXPLORING NATURE
Aid is on the way after Venezuela’s earthquakes, but it’s not...
Dulce Suarez, Florida International University
For a country already facing serious humanitarian needs, the two powerful earthquakes that shook...
