Forest Fires

New farm bill provisions would eliminate environmental protections for forest management, without addressing the wildfires' biggest driver: climate change.

• By Emily Moon

Studies show that removing trees actually make fires more intense, wreaking further havoc on both human and wildlife habitat.

• By Emily Moon

A ruined view following a wildfire affects property values, but only because it's a painful reminder of risk, economists find.

• By Sophie Yeo

A new study using a combination of data sources finds that fire is causing more degradation of forests than logging, the other most significant driver of loss in the Amazon.

• By David Klinges

Americans learned long ago how to keep cities from burning. And then, it seems, we forgot.

• By Stephen Pyne

As wildfires burn longer and fiercer, doctors are trying to work out how today's smoke will affect tomorrow's health.

• By Sophie Yeo

Weather models continue to show absolutely no rainfall until December 30th at the earliest.

• By Eric Holthaus

Experts are concerned about how rainfall could spread toxic chemicals and destabilize hillsides thus threatening to damage the region's water supply.

• By Alastair Bland

A firefighter tackles a wildfire close to the village of Pucarica in Abrantes on August 10th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A recent study puts forth a new factor for judging the flammability of forests: groundwater.

• By Sandhya Sekar

Researchers detect "critical slowing down" as fires explode in the lab.

• By Nathan Collins

While it's widely acknowledged that forests can be useful for holding carbon, they release phenomenal amounts of greenhouse gases when they burn.

• By Peter Friederici