Tag: wildfires
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...
Fire is transforming the US West’s public lands – research shows...
Kyle Manley, University of Colorado Boulder
Colorado’s two largest fires on record, the Cameron Peak and East Troublesome fires,...
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
What Native-held lands in California can teach about resilience and the...
Nina Fontana, University of California, Davis and Beth Rose Middleton Manning, University of California, Davis
It took decades, stacks...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
