An atmospheric scientist explains the mechanics behind 4 types of extreme weather fueled by the smoke and the heat of wildfires.
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The mass extinction was linked to volcanic activity that resulted from the break-up of the "supercontinent" Pangea.
When you breathe in wildfire smoke, harmful particles can travel deep into your body.
Utilities face a dilemma: How to deliver power through dry, windy regions without accidentally starting a catastrophic fire.
Every year, the number of human-caused fires spikes on July 4, and many of them are related to fireworks. When trees and grasses are dry and the temperature high, the risk rises even more.
Heat waves do more than dry out vegetation that can easily burn. They also play a role in lightning strikes, particularly dry lightning.
The risk to firefighters isn’t just from breathing wildfire smoke – it’s also in the chemicals that get on their clothes and filter through to their skin.
The US had been reducing surface-level ozone, a harmful pollutant and the main component of smog, but that changed as wildfire activity picked up around 2015.
Wildfires in Colorado are reshaping landscapes and visitor habits.
This spring has been a busy one for New Hampshire’s wildland firefighters. The drought that made last summer the driest in 130 years has kept soils and forests parched into this spring, the conditions contributing to wildfires that have burned dozens of acres in central New Hampshire to the North Country in recent weeks. The […]