A firefighter on scene of the Glass Fire in Calistoga, California, on Oct. 1. California’s record-breaking wildfires have consumed about 1 million acres in just the past month, according to California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. (Noah Berger/AP)...
October 24, 2019 Gireesh ShrimaliPrecourt Scholar at Stanford University Flames from the Carr Fire consume trees near State Highway 299 west of Redding, California. In 2018, a total of 8,527 fires burned 1,893,913 acres, the largest area recorded in a fire season....
A Marin County firefighter monitors a vegetation burn in San Rafael on Wednesday, March 24, 2021. (Sherry LaVars/Marin Independent Journal) By REX FRAZIER and MARK SEKTNAN |April 19, 2021 at 12:03 p.m. On the heels of a winter with well...
The drought, which led to the most extreme wildfire season on record in California and Colorado last year, is now worse By Diana Leonard and Becky BolingerApril 10, 2021 at 7:57 a.m. MDT California and the West are falling deeper into drought and, with...
Opinion: We need to act now to fight wildfires AuthorGuest WriterPosted onMarch 22, 2021CategoriesUncategorizedTagsopinion Much of the Western U.S. is in severe to exceptional drought Drought monitor, March 16, 2021 This article was first published at Writers on the...