An analysis of 500 watersheds found levels of organic carbon, phosphorus, and other pollutants up to 103 times higher after a ...

Earlier in 2025, wildfires in southern California killed 30 people, destroyed more than 18,000 homes and burned more than ...

Wildfires are becoming more intense and dangerous, but a new Stanford-led study offers hope: prescribed burns—intentionally ...

Learn about the science of wildfires -- risk factors, smoke emissions, effective controls, role in forest ecology and long-term problems.

The Wolf Fire was reported in Riverside County near Banning, California, around 85 miles east of Los Angeles, on Sunday, June 29, at 3:09 p.m. local time, according to Cal Fire. The fire has consumed ...

Wildfires pollute waterways and could affect their ability to sequester carbon, recent University of British Columbia ...

NPR's science podcast Short Wave shares how taking a nap can deliver a eureka moment, a new picture of a planet right after it was born, and how wildfires can affect water quality – after the ...

The image was captured by a NASA satellite camera located a million miles from the Earth's surface, around four times farther than the orbit of the moon.

This is significantly higher than the yearly average since 2000, which stands at 1,071 wildfires and about 4,000 acres burned, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection said Wednesday.

A first-of-its-kind inventory of post-fire water quality across the Western U.S., finds that contaminants and degradation persist for years following wildfires.

NPR's science podcast Short Wave shares how taking a nap can deliver a eureka moment, a new picture of a planet right after it was born, and how wildfires can affect water quality – after the fires ...