“Fire is always where people are,” Flannigan continues. “It goes with us wherever we go. But the genie is out of the bottle.

Climate change has ratcheted up the risk of explosive wildfire growth in California by 25% and will continue to drive extreme fire behavior for decades to come, even if planet-warming emissions ...

Climate change is often blamed for the increase in the intensity and frequency of wildfires. Rising global temperatures dry ...

The real question isn’t whether wildfires are caused by climate change, poor forestry or reckless development; it’s how climate change interacts with other factors.

The countries most affected are Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal, with temperatures nearing or topping 40C (104F).

Climatologists and wildfire experts agree that human-caused climate change is worsening wildfires. Hotter, drier and windier weather can make it easier for wildfires to start and continue burning.

Ecologists say climate change makes controlled fires more urgent and dangerous Many forest ecologists say the U.S. Forest Service is hampered by an outdated approach to prescribed fires, a key ...

A 2015 study on wildfires in the Colorado Front Range Corridor found that the expansion of the wildland-urban Interface — more people living on the edge of forests — and climate change were ...

Human-induced climate change has altered the likelihood and intensity of the fire-prone weather fueling the LA wildfires to the extent that such conditions now occur every 17 years, as opposed to ...

Wildfires and climate change are locked in a vicious circle: Fires worsen climate change, and climate change worsens fires. Scientists, including those at the World Resources Institute, have been ...

OPINION Wildfires aren’t getting worse because of climate change. The real culprit will surprise you There's no evidence that number or severity of wildfires are increasing because of climate change ...

FILE – A jogger runs along McCovey Cove outside Oracle Park in San Francisco, under darkened skies from wildfire smoke on Sept. 9, 2020. As Earth’s climate continues to change from heat ...