California. Climate change is making wildfires worse. The resulting unpredictable weather patterns have created shorter, wetter winters in California, producing a sudden, heavy growth of brushes, grasses and trees. After winter, the stated ongoing drought and record- high summer temperatures draw water...
The 2024 wildfire seasonstarted early, with firescurrently burningacross much of western Canada. Ongoing wildfires near Jasper, Alta.have prompted widespread evacuationand blanketed the province in smoke, triggeringair quality advisories...
Wildfires are not caused by climate change, they are part of Earth’s natural cycles and are increasingly started by humans either intentionally or accidentally. According to the National Park Service 85% of wildfires in the United States are started by humans, sometimes these are intentional bu...
Because wildfires are life-threatening and shape the environment, they can profoundly affect animal behavior (Engstrom2010; Cohen et al.2019; Gonino et al.2019; Pausas2019). Fauna in active fire zones adopt general and predictable response mechanisms to cope with wildfire-induced habitat change and...
As climate change makes wildfires more frequent, scientists are racing to understand how animals suffer.
Persistent heat waves that dry out the land and vegetation have increased the potential of wildfires to be more violent and widespread. Is extreme fire weather becoming more common? Global warming has modified the Earth’s climate in ways that profoundly affec...
How does ozone depletion affect the geosphere? What is the function of the stratospheric ozone layer? What is happening to the good ozone layer? How do wildfires affect the ozone layer? Why is the ozone layer important to life on Earth?
ByABC Climate Unit Last Updated: January 9, 2025, 11:33 PM CSTThe climate crisis is not a distant threat; it's happening right now and affecting what matters most to us. Hurricanes intensified by a warming planet and drought-fueled wildfires are destroying our communities. Rising seas...
controls. We connect burned slopes to streams to describe how fire exports N to aquatic environments. We also consider the implications for municipal watersheds and water resources management. We close by identifying critical knowledge gaps in projecting how fire will affect watershed N cycling and ...
Wildfires have become increasingly frequent due to climate change, with record occurrences in areas not historically prone to them. In California, wildfires and regional power shutoffs have cost billions and taken lives. ...