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Wildfires

The Libertarian Developer Looming Over West Maui’s Water Conflict

Peter Martin spent decades guzzling water around Lāhainā. Then came the fire.

By Anita Hofschneider and Jake Bittle, Grist

In an aerial view, a recovery vehicle drives past burned structures and cars two months after a devastating wildfire on October 9, 2023 in Lahaina, Hawaii. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images
A conservationist with the NGO Panthera fights a fire in Porto Jofre, the Pantanal of Mato Grosso state, Brazil, on September 4, 2021. The Amazon, home to more than three million species, has long absorbed large amounts of carbon dioxide emissions, but some research has shown it recently emitting more CO2 than it absorbs due to wildfires, deforestation and declining forest health. Credit: Carl De Souza/AFP via Getty Images

New Research Makes it Harder to Kick The Climate Can Down the Road from COP28

By Bob Berwyn

Lorraine Capolungo near the site of her mobile home in the Creekside Mobile Home Park, which burned in the Cache Fire in Clearlake, California. Credit: Michael Kodas

Inside Climate News Freelancer Anne Marshall-Chalmers Honored for her Feature Story Showing California Wildfires Plague Mobile Home Residents

By ICN Editors

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) hugs Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) as they speak at a news conference in September 2023 on the launch of the American Climate Corps outside the U.S. Capitol. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images.

Biden Creates the American Climate Corps, 90 Years After FDR Put 3 Million to Work in National Parks

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, “Living on Earth”

Don Hamann discusses the age and condition of a felled tree in the Butte Falls Community Forest during the regular Community Forest Chat on Saturday, June 10, 2023. Credit: Amanda Loman

In Oregon Timber Country, a Town Buys the Surrounding Forests to Confront Climate-Driven Wildfires

By Grant Stringer

Scott Hensen, vice president of floor planning for KB Home, points to a battery display panel on a SunPower SunValut storage system inside the garage of a model home during a tour of KB Home microgrid communities in Menifee on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. Credit: Watchara Phomicinda/MediaNews Group/The Press-Enterprise via Getty Images

Study: Microgrids Could Reduce California Power Shutoffs—to a Point

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

A view of wildfires at Lebel-sur-Quevillon in Quebec, Canada on June 23, 2023. Credit: Frederic Chouinard/SOPFEU/ Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

June Extremes Suggest Parts of the Climate System Are Reaching Tipping Points

By Bob Berwyn

Smoke blankets the City of Chicago as a result of wildfires in Canada. Credit: Aydali Campa

Prepare for More Smoky Summers in the Midwest and Northeast

By Aydali Campa

In a file photo, a five-year-old child is treated in a New York City emergency room after an asthma attack. A week ago, the city experienced its highest number of asthma-related ER visits so far in 2023. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images.

ER Visits for Asthma in New York City Soared as Wildfire Smoke Blanketed the Region

By Gina Jiménez

Smoky haze from wildfires in Canada diminishes the visibility of the Empire State Building on June 7, 2023 in New York City. New York topped the list of major cities in the world with the worst air pollution on Tuesday night, June 6 as smoke from the fires blanketed the East Coast. Credit: David Dee Delgado/Getty Images

Wildfire Haze Adds To New York’s Climate Change Planning Needs

By Juanita Gordon

Arthur Steubing, 3, and his sister, Vesper Steubing 5, standing outside their family's home in New York last week, wearing masks to protect themselves from wildfire smoke from Canada that was blanketing the city. Credit: Wilhelmina PeragineArthur Steubing, 3, and his sister, Vesper Steubing 5, standing outside their family's home in New York last week, wearing masks to protect themselves from wildfire smoke from Canada that was blanketing the city. Credit: Wilhelmina Peragine

As Wildfire Smoke Recedes, Parents of Young Children Worry About the Next Time

By Victoria St. Martin

People wear masks as they wait for the tramway to Roosevelt Island as smoke from Canadian wildfires casts a haze over the area on June 7, 2023 in New York City. Credit: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images

Your Guide to Understanding the East Coast Smokepocalypse

By Kristoffer Tigue

Adam Norris surveys the wildfire damage at his home in Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada, on May 8, 2023. - Canada struggled on Monday to control wildfires that have forced thousands to flee, halted oil production and threatens to raze towns, with the western province of Alberta calling for federal help. Credit: Walter Tychnowicz / AFP via Getty Images

Fossil Fuel Companies and Cement Manufacturers Could Be to Blame for a More Than a Third of West’s Wildfires

By Wyatt Myskow

A woman and her children cross the street at the intersection of Fruitvale Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard in the Dimond District of Oakland, California, on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. Credit: Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images

As Extreme Fires Multiply, California Scientists Zero In on How Smoke Affects Pregnancy and Children

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Two patches of land sit in a dried up lake bed in 2022. These were once islands in Laguna de Aculeoa, a popular freshwater lake for fishing, boating and swimming, just an hour from Santiago, Chile. The lake dried up completely in 2018 due to the ongoing megadrought.

More Than a Decade of Megadrought Brought a Summer of Megafires to Chile

Story and Photos by James Whitlow Delano

This aerial picture taken from an airplane on July 27, 2021, shows the smoke rising from a forest fire outside the village of Berdigestyakh, in the republic of Sakha, Siberia. Credit: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images

Wildfires in Northern Forests Broke Carbon Emissions Records in 2021

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

A forest fire in Louchats, southwestern France, on July 17, 2022. Credit: Thibaud Moritz/AFP via Getty Images

Increasingly Large and Intense Wildfires Hinder Western Forests’ Ability to Regenerate

By Bob Berwyn

Smoke from Southern California wildfires moves towards the Pacific Ocean, creating spectacular dark skies as a local on Oxnard Shores Beach California captures the moment on Nov. 9, 2018. Credit: Paul Harris/Getty Images

Wildfire Smoke May Worsen Extreme Blazes Near Some Coasts, According to New Research

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Firefighters spray down hot spots during the Mosquito Fire on Sept. 14, 2022 in Foresthill, California. Credit: Eric Thayer/Getty Images

Wildfires Are Burning State Budgets

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

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