Over the past decade, they’ve destroyed 246% more homes and buildings.
Wildfire
Posted inFebruary 1, 2023: The Reveal
In a warming world, California’s trees keep dying
That could doom the state’s plan to fight climate change with the help of nature.
Posted inJanuary 1, 2023: Ripple Effects
Fire risk map ignites controversy
Southern Oregon residents lash back at wildfire preparedness rules.
Posted inJanuary 1, 2023: Ripple Effects
What if Indigenous women ran controlled burns?
The Karuk Tribe’s first-of-its-kind training seeks to extinguish hypermasculinity in firefighting culture.
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On the fireline, emotional trauma is a hidden threat
As fires grow larger, wildland firefighting poses new risks to bodies and minds.
Posted inNovember 1, 2022: The Futures of Conservation
A California fire department forges a new generation of conservation practitioners
In wealthy, segregated Marin County, a pioneering recruitment program breaks down barriers to the firefighting profession
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LA mountain lions face the flames
The city’s elusive cougars will do a lot to avoid people, including getting risky with wildfire.
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The pinyon jay’s predicament
The keystone species’ habitat in New Mexico is threatened by wildfire prevention and the climate crisis.
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USFS burn boss arrested after prescribed fire burns private land
Practitioners fear a chilling effect on future operations.
Posted inDecember 1, 2022: Beyond Illusion
The West is losing 1.3 million acres of sagebrush steppe each year
A new report aims to advance transforming rangeland conservation across 13 states and 115 million acres.
Posted inOctober 1, 2022: Making Refuge
A smoldering threat to wildland firefighters
Long COVID affects more than 16 million Americans, and firefighters are at increased risk of getting it.
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Salmon are nosing at the riverbanks trying to escape the Klamath River
As dam removal inches into view, fish have to survive increasingly compounding calamities.
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Wildfires are burning away the West’s snow
A new study finds wildfires are burning more high elevation areas and dramatically impacting the West’s snowpack as a result.
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A new podcast explores the Almeda Drive Fire’s aftermath
Isabella Ruikis’ ‘movement journalism’ explores Oregon’s most destructive wildfire and finds hope for the future in community-based action.
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Disasters are changing the role of educators
Meet the assistant superintendent leading a rural district through wildfire and COVID-19.
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Hotter summer nights affect everything from death rates to crop yields to firefighting
What happens when the Earth can’t cool off overnight?
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Wildfire kills Klamath fish: ‘Everything that’s in there is dead.’
Landslides of ash have poisoned tens of thousands of fish in the already-imperiled river.
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Botanists find one of ‘the world’s worst weeds’ spreading in the Boise foothills
Cogongrass is the latest of a fast-growing number of invasive plants threatening Idaho’s fire-prone rangelands.
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Can a major wildfire and drought package get through Congress?
As the West burns, a bill aiming to prevent fires, bump firefighter’s pay and protect water resources passes the House.
Posted inAugust 1, 2022: Our Fiery Future
The West’s forever fire season
How climate change makes wildfire more likely to happen all year round.