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

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 ...

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 ...

Lightning-caused wildfires can help renew forest ecosystems, but with warmer, ... If it’s dry and windy, it’s just more difficult to control those fires. With climate change, ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.