In 2023 and 2024, the hottest years on record, more than 78 million acres of forests burned around the globe. The fires sent ...

Bark beetles have impacted nearly 80% of Colorado’s pine forests, and yet ecologists say the devastation is a sign of climate ...

The Creek Fire, in the Sierra National Forest in California, burned hundreds of thousands of acres in 2020. Its spread was fueled by many dead, dry trees; climate change contributed to both their ...

A lot of attention has been paid to how climate change can drive biodiversity loss. Now, MIT researchers have shown that the ...

Fires could turn the Amazon rainforest into a desert as human activity and climate change threaten ‘lungs of the world’, according to scientsits. It’s been a bad year for the Amazon, which ...

A climate change-induced surge in brief but intense thunderstorms poses a growing but underrecognized threat to trees in ...

Greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from burning coal, oil and gas, have heated the planet by about 1.3 degrees Celsius since ...

As wildfires become more frequent and intense across Canada, fire officials are seeing stark differences between northwestern ...

As climate change is anticipated to increase the number and intensity of annual forest fires, the amount of iron deposited into oceans has been calculated to be 1.8 times greater than it is today.

And strong Santa Ana winds. In the mix of conditions that have contributed to the most destructive fires in L.A. history, scientists say one significant ingredient is human-caused climate change.

Fire scientists say climate change, not forest management, is a driving factor behind the state’s fires becoming worse and more deadly.

As climate change is anticipated to increase the number and intensity of annual forest fires, the amount of iron deposited into oceans has been calculated to be 1.8 times greater than it is today.