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More than 200 fires are burning in Alaska. Here’s why the state faces such an extreme climate threat
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAmerica’s great northern expanse is burning. Alaska, the US’s largest state, is experiencing an...
Alaska experiencing wildfires it's never seen before
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAlaska is burning this year in ways rarely or ever seen, from the largest wildfire in a typically mainly fireproof southwest region to a pair of blazes...
World lost three Central Parks of forest to wildfire every hour in 2021
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLast year, wildfires ripped through forests around the world, turning verdant landscapes into burn...
Another above-average wildfire season for 2022. How climate change is making fires harder to predict...
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHarlene Schwander didn’t need a second warning from firefighters as a blaze burned toward her home...
Melting ice in Alaska is forming new lakes full of bacteria 'belching' methane into the atmosphere,...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThemokarst lakes found in Alaska are so full of methane, the gas rises to the surface in big...
Pilot reported fire on fuel-laden plane and tried to return to airport before deadly Alaska crash
Associated Press via AOL· 1 month agoOne of the two pilots of a vintage military plane that was delivering heating oil to a remote Alaska...
McKinney fire: Two dead in California blaze as seven heat-related deaths feared in Oregon
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe McKinney fire raging across northern California has now left two dead. The blaze, which started...
Why Arctic wildfires are releasing more carbon than ever
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSmoke from hundreds of wildfires darkened skies over the Alaskan Interior this summer, with the...
The Biden administration has called for protecting mature US forests to slow climate change, but...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn old-growth tree that was cut in Alaska's Tongass National Forest. Salwan Georges/The Washington...
Fire danger in the high mountains is intensifying: That’s bad news for humans, treacherous for the...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFires are increasing in high mountain areas that rarely burned in the past. John McColgan, Bureau of...