Sediment runoff from the state’s increasingly severe wildfires and heavy rain events may affect ecosystems and water ...

Faced with growing existential wildfire risk, utilities, governments and other bureaucracies are leaning on tech startups.

Wildfires rely on three key elements to spread: conducive weather, dry fuel and an ignition source. Each of these factors has ...

With that backdrop, along with a state budget that lawmakers have struggled to balance over the past year, California voters ...

The National Weather Service issued a "red flag warning" for northern California beginning Thursday night until Saturday ...

Fires in non-tropical forests have steadily emitted more and more carbon each year since 2001, releasing an additional half a ...

Democrat King County Councilmember Dave Upthegrove faces former U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Republican.

No region has seen so sharp a rise in big fires. The challenge is getting people to embrace the prescribed burns that can prevent them.

UN Secretary General António Guterres led the most recent chorus in 2024, in talking about “global boiling” and raising ...

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Tahoe forests are currently glowing with vibrant fall colors even as smoke lingers above the lake from prescribed fire ...