Despite fierce rainstorms and atmospheric rivers battering California in recent weeks, the state continues to grapple with significant drought conditions, fuelling "extreme" fire weather this week.

And the concerns are notunique to Europe. A study released this year by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and ...

In the last 10 years, the total number of acres burned by significant wildfires has varied from year to year. In 2020, when ...

Since 1993, seven of the 10 worst fire years in California, ranked by total acres burned, have occurred after ...

An account of the hypermasculine culture, the danger, and centuries of human actions and greed that contributed to megafires ...

Generally, wet winters lower wildfire risk and dry winters increase it. Northern California received much more rain and snow ...

Last week's rain was not enough to relieve local agricultural producers from severe drought. The surface soil briefly ...

Scientists recorded a massive bloom of the endangered Camatta Canyon amole in San Luis Obispo County this spring, an exciting ...