In 2023 and 2024, the hottest years on record, more than 78 million acres of forests burned around the globe. The fires sent ...

Fires could turn the Amazon rainforest into a desert as human activity and climate change threaten ‘lungs of the world’, according to scientsits. It’s been a bad year for the Amazon, which ...

The team from the Center for Conservation Innovation at Defenders of Wildlife found when they applied climate change assessments to the plants and animals on the U.S. Endangered Species Act list ...

Wildfires have scorched hotspots in several Mediterranean countries this month, with blazes forcing thousands of people into ...

"Climate-driven fires arise from more favorable weather conditions for fire, such as low humidity and high temperatures, which in turn are influenced by anthropogenic climate change. Understanding ...

The paper, “ Impacts of Climate Change on Land Management and Wildland Fire Smoke in the Southeastern United States,” is published open access in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

“With climate change accelerating, these ecosystems are being reshaped in ways that make them more fire-susceptible,” Bonakdari said. — Steve Howe reports on weather, climate and the Great ...

Warmer and drier conditions driven by climate change, apart from making boreal forests more flammable, are expected to intensify and increase the frequency of peat fires, potentially transforming ...

A large forest fire blazes in Greece in 2024. More frequent and intense droughts, storms and heat waves, melting glaciers, warming oceans and rising sea levels – climate change is already causing ...

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Climate change is lengthening fire seasons across much of the world. This means the potential for wildfires at any time of the year, in both hemispheres, is increasing. That poses a problem.