Pacific Northwest

Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke directed federal agencies to smooth the way for installing seismic sensors out west.

A NASA satellite image shows fires in the Pacific Northwest, which now hosts 10 times as many large fires as it did before 1960.

Heavy El Niño rains could trigger mudslides in California this winter. These scientists are trying to figure out the whens and wheres.

Want to know what difference a few degrees can make as the climate warms? Look no further than the West’s critical and vanishing snowpack.

While there’s no crystal ball for forecasting wildfire, experts have come to expect fiercer and more frequent blazes year after year.