Tag: wildfires
2021’s climate disasters revealed an east-west weather divide, with one side...
Shuang-Ye Wu, University of Dayton
Alongside a lingering global pandemic, the year 2021 was filled with climate disasters, some...
Moving beyond America’s war on wildfire: 4 ways to avoid future...
Susan Kocher, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Ryan E. Tompkins, University of California, Division of Agriculture and...
Fall is prime hurricane and wildfire season: Are your disaster kit...
Brett Robertson, University of South Carolina
Another hurricane is brewing in the Atlantic, and dozens of large fires are...
When hotter and drier means more – but eventually less –...
Maureen C Kennedy, University of Washington; Don McKenzie, University of Washington, and Jeremy Littell, US Geological Survey
There is...
What’s in wildfire smoke? A toxicologist warns there are lots of...
Luke Montrose, Boise State University
Something unusual happened this year in Idaho. Fire and health officials began issuing warnings...
Over 100 fire scientists urge the US West: Skip the fireworks...
Philip Higuera, The University of Montana; Alexander L. Metcalf, The University of Montana; Dave McWethy, Montana State University, and Jennifer Balch, University...
‘Managed retreat’ from climate disasters can reinvent cities so they’re better...
A.R. Siders, University of Delaware and Katharine Mach, University of Miami
June’s record-breaking heat wave left more than 40...
Western fires are burning higher in the mountains at unprecedented rates...
Mojtaba Sadegh, Boise State University; John Abatzoglou, University of California, Merced, and Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, McGill University
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
