Climate Wildfires
All Stories
-
Invasive species have created a cycle of wildfire in Hawaiʻi. Can Maui break it?
Planting native flora could help prevent the island's next wildfire.
-
On Maui, returning home means confronting toxic risks
A growing body of research shows that wildfires leave a trail of dangerous chemicals behind.
-
Utilities are getting sued over wildfires. Who’s bearing the cost?
As power companies spend big on legal settlements and grid upgrades, customers are seeing higher prices.
-
Locals have been sounding the alarm for years about Lahaina wildfire risk
While the inferno spread shockingly fast, it didn’t come out of nowhere.
-
Why loving trees sometimes means cutting them down
An outdated land management ideology with roots in colonialism is keeping California and the West from taking essential steps toward mitigating increasingly destructive wildfires.
-
Thousands flee capital city of Northwest Territories in Canada as wildfires near
The 2023 wildfire season is the most destructive in Canada's recorded history.
-
‘Where are they?’ With government aid still spotty, Maui locals funnel supplies to fire survivors.
People stuck in their homes are depending on the community for generator fuel, propane, and ice.
-
How Maui’s wildfires became the country’s deadliest in more than a century
The grisly scenes are easy to understand "in the age of global warming," Hawaiʻi’s governor said.
-
Wildfires just destroyed a Maui town. Next year could be worse.
The raging fires have killed at least 55 people and caused what is expected to be billions of dollars in damages. Climate change could prompt more of the same.
-
Will a fear of fires burn New York?
Prescribed burns are banned in New York’s largest tracts of forest, but some rangers say they need to torch the brush to save the trees.