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The Texas Department of Transportation is ready to open the new Westlake Drive bridge at Loop 360 on Friday. The agency said ...
Wildfires burning at the Grand Canyon and in Utah are so hot that they're spurring the formation of "fire clouds" that can create their own erratic weather systems.
BY MID-JULY 2002, the country was at a Preparedness Level 5, meaning that over 80% of the nation’s fire-fighting resources were committed. This was an extreme year for fires, with Oregon, Colorado and ...
A nonprofit is sending satellites into space to detect wildfire with unprecedented precision. As the Fish Creek Fire burned ...
Climate-related wildfires are once again making headlines as they rage across the Northern Hemisphere this summer. New IIASA ...
Both Minnesota and St. Cloud use prescribed burns in the spring to protect prairie species and avoid bigger fires in the future. Here's what to know.
At the recent 2025 AHA Leadership Summit, the Advancing Innovation Showcase offered a rapid-fire glimpse into the future of ...
A climate change-induced surge in brief but intense thunderstorms poses a growing but underrecognized threat to trees in ...
Westfield, Massachusetts, suffered from heavy flooding and rainfall in the middle of August 1955, making it the wettest day ...
Forests play a major role pulling planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. As the world heats up, some forests are becoming emitters in their own right.
"When soot from wildfires lands on ice, it turbocharges melting," Jennifer Francis of the Woodwell Climate Research Center told the outlet. "This creates a feedback loop: less ice means more warming, ...
In 2023 and 2024, the hottest years on record, more than 78 million acres of forests burned around the world. The fires sent ...