Climate Change Behind Surge in Western Wildfires

Adapting western North American forests to climate change and ...

... fire: Will area burned increase in a warming western USA? Ecological Applications 27:26–36. McWethy, D. B., et al. 2019. Rethinking resilience to wildfire.

How Climate Change Is Fueling Extreme Weather - Earthjustice

That spike in global temperatures is fueling climate disasters that will only get worse unless we take action. Experts warn that we are running ...

Why Wildfires Are Becoming More Frequent And Devastating - Forbes

In regions like California, climate change exacerbates natural cycles, with wetter winters followed by hotter, drier summers. This pattern ...

Wildfires - World Health Organization (WHO)

With climate change leading to warmer temperatures and drier conditions and the increasing urbanization of rural areas, the fire season is starting earlier and ...

Climate Reports - the United Nations

... behind climate action to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. UN ... climate change, sea level rise, ocean acidification and more extreme weather.

A record-breaking boreal wildfire season | Copernicus

Climate change is making such conditions more likely and increase the chance of a longer fire season. El Niño conditions, declared by the WMO in ...

Frontiers | “Forest fire emissions: A contribution to global climate ...

The increase in high-energy release fires that accompany climate change could accelerate carbon cycling from Earth's surface to the atmosphere. The traditional ...

More than a third of the area charred by wildfires in Western North ...

The amalgam of megadrought and record-breaking heat that's drying out vegetation due to climate change has stoked the West's wildfires. And ...

Chapter 6: Forests - Fourth National Climate Assessment

Wildfires can increase erosion and sediment in western U.S. rivers, as well as reduce tree cover adjacent to rivers and streams and thus increase stream ...

Climate change increases risk of extreme rainfall following wildfire in ...

Post-wildfire extreme rainfall events can have destructive impacts in the western United States. Using two climate model large ensembles, ...

Climate change is making California's fires bigger

Because of this effect of climate change, wildfires are increasing in size, both in California and across the western U.S., says Park Williams, ...

Climate change boosts California wildfire risk by 25%

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.

Surge in extreme forest fires fuels global emissions - Nature

Global forest fires emitted 33.9 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide between 2001 and 2022, according to a report by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Wildfires increasing across eastern US, new study shows

Their findings indicated increasing wildfire risk across the southern and eastern portions of what's known as the Eastern Temperate Forests, an ...

Climate change made some of Canada's wildfire weather much worse

Fire activity is forecast to increase more in the eastern part of the country, which is less prepared for big fires, than the west, previous ...

Taming Wildfires in the Context of Climate Change - OECD

Climate change is estimated to have doubled the total forest area burned in the western United States between 1984 and 2015. The extreme fire ...

Climate Change Impacts in the Northwest

Large fires in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington are associated with warm and dry conditions that are likely to increase with climate change. Climate Change and ...

What's Behind New York Fires? Climate Change, Land Use and ...

While small compared with many of the wildfires that regularly devastate the US West, the blazes in the Northeast are increasing risks in ...

Logging proposed to curb wildfires in the US Pacific Northwest - KCRA

Federal officials now say worsening wildfires due to climate change mean forests must be more actively managed to increase their resiliency.

Effects of Climate Change - Impacts and Examples - NRDC

The number of large wildfires doubled between 1984 and 2015 in the western United States. And in California alone, the annual area burned by ...