Scientific News Study Says Climate Change Made Conditions That Fed Los Angeles Wildfires More Likely, More Intense

Climate change is turning global wildfires into monsters

Predicting bushfires is difficult at the best of times. But as climate change wreaks havoc with our world's weather systems it's getting harder and more important to get right. Read More

Study shows the world is far more ablaze now with damaging fires than in the 1980s

WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth’s nastiest and costliest wildfires are blazing four times more often now than they did in the 1980s because of human-caused climate change and people moving closer to wildlands ... Read More

Scientists say climate change is drastically impacting California's air quality

For decades, Los Angeles has topped the list as the smoggiest city in the U.S., but now, climate change is fueling a new kind of pollution from toxic urban wildfires to heat-driven ozone and smoke ... Read More

Climate change drove extreme wildfire seasons across the Americas, making burned areas around 30 times larger

Human-driven climate change made wildfires in parts of South America and Southern California many times larger and more destructive, according to an annual assessment by international experts. Read More

Costly and Deadly Wildfires Really Are on the Rise, New Research Finds

The past decade in particular has seen an uptick in devastating blazes linked to climate change, according to the study. By Rebecca Dzombak The Los Angeles fires in January. Blazes in Canada in 2024. Read More

Wildfire-smoke-related deaths in the US could climb to 70,000 per year by 2050 due to climate change, study finds

The number of deaths from exposure to wildfire smoke in the U.S. could rise by more than 70% in the next 25 years. The human and economic costs involved would be astronomical, researchers say. Read More

Experts reveal climate change drove extreme wildfire seasons across the Americas, making burned areas much larger

Human-driven climate change made wildfires in parts of South America and Southern California many times larger and more destructive, according to an annual assessment by international experts. Read More