New Zealand Firefighters Say Tongariro Wildfire Is Coming Under Control November 10, 2025 By Tracy Withers A wildfire that swept across thousands of hectares of New Zealand’s Tongariro National Park appears to be coming under control,...
SCE Wildfire Fund to Pay Millions, Fast-Track Death Claims October 29, 2025 By Tim McLaughlin Southern California Edison said on Wednesday it would pay several million dollars each to families who lost loved ones in...
Industry Groups Applaud Bill to Treat Forests, Mitigate Wildfire Risk October 23, 2025 Insurance industry trades praised a Senate committee for the passage this week of the Fix Our Forests Act, a measure...
US Saw Record $101 Billion in Weather Losses Through June October 22, 2025 By Lauren Rosenthal The US saw more than $101 billion in losses from severe storms and fires in the first half of 2025,...
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...