A new study shows how often lightning strikes and how it behaves, often hitting the ground with multiple strikes from the same flash.

A new study shows an association between proximity to wildfires and increased anxiety-related emergency department visits.

A hot, dry summer on the heels of a wet winter raises the risk of wildfires.

This was no ‘natural disaster’. There are lessons to learn from areas that survived the fires.

Prescribed burning, restoration thinning, or a combination of both are effective at reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfire in California.

The early heat melted snow and warmed rivers, heating up the land and downstream ocean areas. The effects harmed salmon fisheries, melted sea ice and fueled widespread fires.

We rarely see good news headlines when a cyclone, earthquake or wildfire does not turn disastrous.

How will Earth’s vast boreal forests look in a warmer world? Combining satellite-based research with fieldwork shows that the planet’s largest wilderness may be changing in unexpected ways.

A changing climate, humans and fire were a deadly combination for the big animals that used to roam southern California. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.

As the climate warms, devastating fires are increasingly likely. The 2020 fires pushed the Southern Rockies beyond the historical average. Is there hope for the Northern Rockies?