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

Over-harvesting, climate change-fuelled wildfires and droughts, and pest outbreaks are all depleting forests' carbon storage. However, some of these risks can be managed - for example, by reducing ...

Greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from burning coal, oil and gas, have heated the planet by about 1.3 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times. Europe has warmed at twice the global average since the ...

Forest fires have historically been viewed as catastrophic events. Thanks to climate change, forest fires are now a threat for much longer periods of the year, rather than being limited to the ...

Bark beetles have impacted nearly 80% of Colorado’s pine forests, and yet ecologists say the devastation is a sign of climate ...

Matt Harris, a forest fire researcher at Western and lead-author of the study, says that two decades of data on fires across ...

Climate change has transformed summer into a season of extremes, leading to intense heat waves, droughts and wildfires that ...

Two new studies say data center firms face growing threats from climate change-driven natural disasters and need to start ...

As the risk of fires increases due to climate change, the Greek government refuses to address the climate emergency or fund ...

A climate change-induced surge in brief but intense thunderstorms poses a growing but underrecognized threat to trees in ...

Forest fires have historically been viewed as catastrophic events. Thanks to climate change, forest fires are now a threat for much longer periods of the year, rather than being limited to the ...