Wildfire disaster are expensive, and they keep happening. The cost of human life, property and the environment is catastrophic. In February 2024, the Smokehouse Creek Fire in the Texas Panhandle ...
All this past winter, my hiking boots were striking dry trails or crunchy grasses when we should have been donning skate ...
A variety of new technologies aim to improve wildfire detection and help map the spread of blazes Anna Fiorentino | Freelance writer Embers from the Eaton Fire fly down a residential street in ...
Real-time tools, visuals, and other resources to quantify the role of climate change in weather events. Alerts We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable ...
In recent decades, fast-growing blazes were responsible for an outsize share of fire-related devastation, scientists found using satellite data. By Raymond Zhong Wildfires aren’t just tearing ...
One glimpse at the August 2024 wildfire incident map of Western North America and one might have thought half the continent was on fire. Oregon had declared a statewide wildfire state of ...
As wildfires grow more destructive across the nation and around the world, researchers at the University of California are racing to understand the forces driving these blazes and find new ways to ...
Pre-trip preparation: Carrying navigation tools, water systems, and emergency shelters is vital to staying safe in wildfire-prone backcountry areas. Early hazard detection: Recognizing smoke, haze, ...