Wildfires

Residents in the Big Sur area of California were told to evacuate from their homes due to a wildfire that began late Friday, officials said.

The Biden administration says it will significantly expand efforts to stave off catastrophic wildfires that have been torching areas of the U.S. West by more aggressively thinning forests around “hot spots” where nature and neighborhoods collide

With wildfires still burning in suburbs outside of Boulder, Colorado, experts are calling for more awareness to the growing threat. Many communities and homes are not built to be fire-resilient, despite the cost to fireproof being low. “We need to rethink how we’re building,” says Jennifer Balch of EarthLab at University of Colorado Boulder.

Climate change is the reason the ground in Boulder County, Colorado, was primed for a wind-whipped fire to take off, and other areas may experience similar extensions of their wildfire seasons, climate experts say....
“Climate change is clearly making the pre-conditions for wildfires worse across most fire-prone regions of the world,” said said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University...

At least 500 homes were likely destroyed and there were no known deaths in a wind-fueled wildfire outside Denver, Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle said Friday.

Hundreds of homes burned as heavy winds fanned the flames on Thursday.

A father and son were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of starting a massive California wildfire that destroyed many homes and forced tens of thousands of people to flee Lake Tahoe communities earlier this year, authorities said.

Sequoia National Park says lightning-sparked wildfires in the past two years have killed a minimum of nearly 10,000 giant sequoia trees in California

The data comes just weeks after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed an agreement at the COP26 climate summit pledging to end deforestation by 2030.

A former college professor was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday for allegedly starting four wildfires in Northern California earlier this year that threatened to trap firefighters as they battled a massive fire nearby, federal prosecutors said.

Rich Schenk has trouble listing the names of states he has fought fires in. “I wish I could count,” said Schenk. “I always tell people I have been in most any state that has a potential burning across the great country.” Schenk is a longtime member of the Connecticut Interstate Fire Crew. The team of approximately 60 firefighters travels the…

A group of Connecticut firefighters spends part of the year helping fight wildfires in states around the U.S.

The Treasury Department is looking at the impact of climate change on American households’ finances, as well as how to address those risks.

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.

When Woody Faircloth suggested to his daughter, then 6, that they drive an RV to someone who lost their home from wildfires in the American West, she replied, “Aw, Dad, God and Santa Claus are gonna be proud of us.”

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

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 flames advancing toward the signature grove of ancient massive trees in Sequoia National Park, firefighters Thursday fought fire with fire

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.