In 2023 and 2024, the hottest years on record, more than 78 million acres of forests burned around the globe. The fires sent ...

As the risk of fires increases due to climate change, the Greek government refuses to address the climate emergency or fund ...

Forest fires are already a global threat. "But considering how climate change is progressing, we are probably only at the beginning of a future that will see more and bigger forest fires ...

Northern forest fires could accelerate climate change Date: April 30, 2021 Source: Boston University Summary: New research shows that the global models used to project how Earth's climate will ...

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The amount of forest area burned by wildfires between 1984 and 2015 was twice what would have burned had climate change not occurred, according to the 2018 U.S. National Climate Assessment.

As climate change accelerates in boreal forests, the frequency of zombie fires could rise and exacerbate warming by releasing more greenhouse gases from the region’s soils, which may house twice ...

Hikers shut out as climate change, fires kept California forests off-limits Samantha McArthy of Wisconsin traversing Sturtevant Falls in Angeles National Forest in April 2019.

Lightning-caused wildfires, like this one, historically burned at low severity, renewing ecosystems by revitalizing soil nutrients and keeping forests from over growing.

The skyrocketing cost of putting out this year's record-breaking forest fires in British Columbia is serving as a stark warning about the economic toll of climate change. Fire-related expenses ...

After the year 2000, it's like a switch was flipped. Wildfires are 10 times as large. We are seeing ecosystems change, and I would say that the pace of change has really picked up.

But when fires wipe out these forests and seedings can’t get a foothold, they are replaced with grasses and dense brush. Climate change has already shifted biomes.