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

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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.

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

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 ...

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Poor air quality due to wildfire smoke can negatively affect health. It's one of multiple climate-driven health risks ...

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 ...

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 ...