Life-Threatening Heat Domes Are Confounding Forecasters October 10, 2025 By Brian K. Sullivan Record-breaking temperatures seared the eastern US last month, leading to power emergencies across the region. The cause: an enormous ridge...
World Is Far More Ablaze Now With Damaging Fires Than in 1980s: Study October 9, 2025 By Seth Borenstein Earth’s nastiest and costliest wildfires are blazing four times more often now than they did in the 1980s because of...
French Wine Output to Fall Below 2024 After Fires Ravage Vines October 9, 2025 By Nayla Razzouk France further cut its estimate for this year’s wine production, putting output below 2024’s historically low level, after summer heat...
Wildfire Smoke Set to Cause Mounting Deaths and Economic Losses September 22, 2025 By Aaron Clark and Laura Millan Increased wildfire smoke could lead to 1.4 million premature deaths globally each year by the end of this century, according...
How Europe Lost an Area the Size of Cyprus to Wildfires This Year September 12, 2025 By Laura Millan and Joe Wertz Patricia Lamela was driving back to the Galician town of Larouco in northwest Spain when she got the call. It...
Spain and Portugal Fires Were More Intense Because of Climate Change: Research September 4, 2025 By Laura Millan Climate change made the extreme weather conditions that fueled the wildfires in Portugal and Spain about 40 times more likely...
Canada’s 2023 Wildfires Pushed Air Pollution to Decade-Level Highs August 29, 2025 By Olivia Rudgard Canada’s record-breaking 2023 wildfire season led to a spike in air pollution in the country and in the US, erasing...
Climate Change Made Turkey, Greece Wildfires 10 Times More Likely: Scientists August 29, 2025 By Laura Millan The wildfires that raged across Greece, Turkey and Cyprus this summer were 22% more intense and 10 times more likely...
Europe’s Wildfires Have Burned the Most Land in Nearly 20 Years August 19, 2025 By Joe Wertz, Sofia Horta e Costa and Sabrina Nelson Garcinuño Four major heat waves, dry conditions and strong winds have turned Europe into a tinderbox this summer, fueling the most...
Deadly Fires Rage in Greece and Spain as Heat Blasts Cyprus August 14, 2025 By Joe Wertz and Paul Tugwell Firefighters worked overnight to contain deadly blazes in Greece and Spain that have forced the evacuation of thousands of residents...