california wildfires

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has approved nearly $1 billion in new spending to prevent wildfires that are getting bigger and more destructive from climate change.

Last week, fires began burning out of control in steep canyons near Sequoia National Park, which contains some of the world’s largest trees.

Authorities say four famous giant sequoias were not harmed by a wildfire that reached the edge of Giant Forest in California’s Sequoia National Park

Fire crews are using an aluminum protective covering to try and save homes exposed to wildfire in California.

Crews are watching the weather this weekend as they battle a California wildfire that has burned into groves of gigantic sequoia trees.

California firefighters are wrapping the bases of several sequoias, including the world’s largest tree, in fireproof aluminum blankets as a blaze approaches.

Firefighters have wrapped the base of the world’s largest tree in a fire-resistant blanket as they try to save a famous grove of gigantic old-growth sequoias from wildfires burning in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains.

With a wildfire no longer threatening Lake Tahoe, residents, tourists and scientists drawn to its clean alpine air, clear blue waters and fragrant pine trees now wonder about the long-term effects that remain.

At wildfire base camps in California and beyond, therapy dogs and their handlers are providing firefighters with a much-needed distraction from the taxing work they face on the front lines.

A growing number of homeowners are relocating and citing climate change as a primary factor in their decisions to move. 

Authorities have reopened nearly all lanes of a major Southern California highway as firefighters made progress on a wildfire that jumped across the road

Firefighters are working to quash new fires ignited by lightning after thunderstorms with mostly small but welcome amounts of rain rumbled across drought-stricken Northern California, where forests have been burning for weeks.

A PG&E arborist has acknowledged the tree that fell onto a powerline and is suspected of starting the Dixie Fire, showed signs of rot – a finding that came as no surprise to one expert tracking the worsening epidemic of fungal disease in the densely-forested, drought-ravaged Sierra.

Tens of thousands of people forced to flee South Lake Tahoe because of a California wildfire could begin to return to their homes.

A number of camping, fishing, hiking and biking adventures have been scrapped due to wildfires ravaging the U.S.

Residents of Pollock Pines and surrounding areas have been able to return home and resume some of their regular activities.

A U.S. Forest Service firefighter responding to the Dixie Fire has died, officials said Saturday Night.

Bulldozers with giant blades, crews armed with shovels and a fleet of aircraft dropping hundreds of thousands of gallons of water and fire retardant helped keep the advance of a California blaze threatening South Lake Tahoe  to a couple of thousand acres _ a fraction of its explosive spread last month and the smallest increase in two weeks

A climate scientist explains why extreme weather across the U.S., like the Caldor Fire scorching the west coast, could pale in comparison to future weather.

President Joe Biden detailed his administration’s efforts to provide federal assistance to competing climate crises across the U.S., including historic floods from Hurricane Ida across the southern and eastern states and the devastating Caldor Fire in the Sierra Nevadas. “We’re all in this together. The nation is here to help.”