california wildfires

Pacific Gas & Electric will face criminal charges due to its equipment sparking the Zogg Fire that killed four people and destroyed hundreds of homes last year.

A wildfire raging in rugged terrain in Northern California has destroyed multiple homes as the state’s largest fire intensifies and numerous other blazes batter the U.S. West.

Lower winds and better weather helped crews using bulldozers and helicopters battling the nation’s largest wildfire in southern Oregon while a Northern California wildfire crossed into Nevada, prompting evacuations as blazes burn across the West.

The nation’s largest wildfire has torched more dry forest in Oregon and forced the evacuation of a wildlife research station

Officials are concerned about the size and severity of the fires this early in the season.

Firefighters are struggling to contain a wildfire in Northern California as blazing temperatures continue in the West.

Fire risk is high right now in California with high temperatures and an accumulation of dry brush. The state is warning residents to not even mow the lawn, in case their mower hits a rock and sparks a blaze that gets out of control. NBC San Diego meteorologist Keith Bryant explains.

Hot and dry early-season temperatures and a high supply of dry fuels have primed states for more severe and frequent fires this year.

At least a tenth of the world’s mature giant sequoias were destroyed by a single California wildfire that tore through the southern Sierra Nevada last year, according to a draft report prepared by scientists with the National Park Service.

Smoke from wildfires led to some California growers discarding their grape crops and not making wine in 2021. And some of the wine that was made could have an ashy taste.

Smoke taint from the 2020 California wildfires made its way over to some vineyards and tainted their crop. But some businesses went ahead and made tainted, ashy-tasting wine anyway.

A smoky wildfire churning through a Los Angeles canyon community gained strength Sunday as about a thousand residents remained under evacuation orders while others were warned they should get ready to leave

A giant sequoia has been found smoldering and smoking in a part of Sequoia National Park that burned in one of California’s huge wildfires last year.

Engineers have developed a seed-scattering drone to help reforest areas ravaged by wildfires.

Officials say a Northern California wildfire that killed four people and destroyed more than 200 buildings last year was sparked when tree branches came into contact with Pacific Gas & Electric power lines.

Wildfire smoke accounted for up to half of all health-damaging small particle air pollution in the western U.S. in recent years as warming temperatures fueled more destructive blazes, according to a study released Monday. Even as pollution emissions declined from other sources including vehicle exhaust and power plants, the amount from fires increased sharply, said researchers at Stanford University...

The Arctic and northern Siberia saw the largest temperature surges in 2020, and Europe had its hottest year ever as global carbon emissions continued to rise.

Lower nighttime temperatures that typically provide critical relief from the hot days are disappearing as the climate changes.

Storing fuel in salt caverns isn’t a new, but hydrogen’s growing role in decarbonization has revitalized interest in the concept.

Powerful winds have pushed flames through Southern California canyons as an out-of-control wildfire burns near homes, forcing residents to flee