california wildfires

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

Southern California utilities cut the power to tens of thousands of customers to avoid the threat of wildfires as the region found itself whipped by Santa Ana winds that could turn sparks into catastrophes.

Crews tried to beat back two out-of-control wildfires in Southern California on Tuesday that have kept tens of thousands of people out of their homes even as another round of dangerous fire weather raises the risk for flames erupting across the state.

Rapidly spreading wildfires have forced the evacuation of nearly 90,000 California residents and two firefighters were critically burned fighting the flames.

About 60,000 are under evacuation orders as the Silverado Fire continues to burn in Orange County.

President Donald Trump’s administration has reversed course and approved a previously rejected California application for disaster relief funds to clean up damage from six recent wildfires

Pacific Gas & Electric has begun turning off power to more than 50,000 Northern California customers as dry, windy conditions renew the threat of fire in a season already marked by deadly, devastating blazes

Cool weather and light drizzle in some places provided relief for firefighters working to increase containment of numerous wildfires across California on Saturday, but the forecast for dry and warming conditions starting on Sunday signaled that the state’s lethal fire season is far from over.

Deadly wildfires in California have burned more than four million acres this year, more than double the previous record for the most land burned in a single year in the state.

Expected powerful winds didn’t materialize, allowing fire crews a chance to make some gains against a blaze in California’s wine country

Beleaguered firefighters in the western United States have a new force on their side: Baby Yoda.

Easing winds gave California firefighters a break Tuesday as they battled a destructive wildfire that was driven by strong winds through wine country north of San Francisco and another rural blaze that killed three people.

Fast-moving fires force evacuations as they sweep through California’s wine country.

Officials say the Zogg Fire in Shasta County, Calif., has burned at least 7,000 acres.

A group of 10 firefighters from Connecticut and Massachusetts has returned home after spending the last several weeks helping to battle wildfires in northern California. The group left Connecticut on Sept. 4 and initially worked with the Hoopa Tribe on the Hoopa Valley Reservation, which is located in the northwestern part of the state. They later helped with the fire…