Disaster fatigue is getting worse with more billion-dollar extreme weather...
Spectacularly costly disasters are our new normal.Major hurricanes are devastating coastal communities and bringing flooding thousands of miles inland. Wildfires are burning for months. Heatwaves are...
View ArticleMedia coverage of wildfires omits one key element: Humanity's role
This summer saw some of the worst wildfires in recorded history. Not just in the western U.S., but Algeria, Canada, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Turkey and Russia all faced annual fire...
View ArticleHow federal agencies can protect against climate threats
Last week, 23 federal agencies published climate adaptation plans to help protect their facilities and operations from floods, storms, wildfires and other impacts of climate change. While the plans are...
View Article10K sequoia trees require removal in California following wildfires
The Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks announced Friday there are around 10,000 sequoia trees that will need to be removed from the area in California.The trees have been weakened either from age,...
View ArticleAuthorities hope snow, weaker winds help get Colorado wildfires under control
Colorado authorities are hoping that weaker winds and snowfall on Friday will help to get the massive wildfire burning through the state's northern region under control.The fire has burned hundreds of...
View ArticleSheriff casts doubt on downed power line theory in Colorado wildfire
A Boulder County official on Monday said downed power lines are no longer believed to be behind the devastating Marshall Fire that tore through northern Colorado last week.Local media reported that the...
View ArticleTop 2021 climate realities demand a New Year's resolution for our planet
When pondering resolutions for a new year, it can be helpful to review the year gone by. In the case of 2021, one of the most striking realizations is that we’ve clearly entered an era of extreme...
View ArticleBiden to travel to Colorado to survey wildfire damage
President Biden on Friday will travel to Boulder, Colo., to survey the damage from the wildfires last week, the White House announced on Wednesday.The president will continue on from Boulder to Las...
View ArticleFire suppression myths
Hardly a day goes by when we don’t hear in the media and from the Forest Service that fire suppression is responsible for the intensity and size of wildfires.According to proponents, a "hundred years...
View ArticleThe most destructive fire in Colorado history: What I've been working my...
My little girls and I recently huddled around our bedroom window watching helplessly as smoke billowed and flames ravaged our neighboring communities. After months without any precipitation to saturate...
View ArticleCalifornia wildfire prompts evacuations, highway closure
A wildfire broke out late Friday in the area of Big Sur, Calif., prompting evacuations and the closure of part of the Pacific Coast Highway, The Associated Press reports.As of Saturday afternoon, the...
View ArticleWildfire along California's Big Sur forces evacuations
BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters on Saturday were battling a wildfire that broke out in the rugged mountains along Big Sur, forcing hundreds of residents on this precarious stretch of the California...
View Article'Double hazards' map points to a hidden geography of wildfire risk
Nearly 20 different regions across the Western U.S. face rising danger from wildfires, a new study finds, demonstrating the challenge the Biden administration faces as it starts a 10-year,...
View ArticleNighttime wildfires growing in frequency, intensity: study
Nocturnal blazes have grown more intense and frequent in recent decades as hot, arid nighttime weather becomes the norm across the western U.S., a new study has found.While such “flammable nights” were...
View ArticleIPCC finds climate impacts are in our backyards — time for Congress to act
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is out, and the findings are grim: climate change is affecting every corner of the planet, and dangerous and costly impacts...
View ArticleScientists link wildfire smoke to ozone depletion
Smoke generated by Australia’s 2019-2020 wildfires — which emitted a mass of particles comparable to that of an erupting volcano — contributed to the breakdown of the Earth’s ozone layer, a new study...
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