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Smoke from wildfires in Canada has reached several cities, including New York

How long will the wildfire smoke last and is it bad for your health?

8 June 2023

Smoke from hundreds of wildfires burning in Canada has triggered air quality alerts across the northern US, including in New York City

Wildfires across Canada have emitted record-breaking amounts of carbon

2 June 2023

Carbon emissions from wildfires in Canada were the highest ever recorded in May, highlighting the growing risk of blazes earlier in the year

The Blaze (En Plein Feu) review: A taut eco-thriller about a wildfire

26 October 2022

The wildfire that swept across Europe this summer resonates through Quentin Reynaud’s The Blaze, a tense, subtly crafted eco-thriller in which a father and son struggle to escape from a local outbreak

A firetruck drives along California Highway 96 as the McKinney Fire burns in Klamath National Forest, Calif., . Authorities have identified four people killed last month when California's largest and deadliest wildfire of the year swept through a remote hamlet. Western Wildfires, Klamath National Forest, United States - 30 Jul 2022

Extreme California wildfires may increase 57% even with low emissions

8 September 2022

Wildfires that grow more than 4000 hectares in a single day could become much more frequent in California even with low greenhouse gas emissions

Resources provided mutual aid and responded to five new fires in the Fairbanks area on Monday, July 25th. Two fires are connected to downed trees on powerlines, one involved a structure fire that spread into the wildland, one was unable to be located, and the fifth report resulted in crews monitoring an area for fire activity. Aircraft drops retardant on (600) Old Ridge Trail Fire in Alaska. Photo by James Lily (DOF)

What Alaska's record-breaking wildfires mean for the Arctic's future

10 August 2022

Wildfires in Alaska have already burned more than three times as much territory as usual, and fire season isn't over – the environmental effects could last decades

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Noah Berger/AP/Shutterstock (13057572c) Firetruck drives along California Highway 96 as the McKinney Fire burns in Klamath National Forest, Calif Western Wildfires, Klamath National Forest, United States - 30 Jul 2022

'Dry lightning' sparked the most destructive wildfires in California

8 August 2022

Nearly half of the lightning strikes in northern California over the past three decades occurred on days with little to no rain, sparking some of the most destructive wildfires in the state’s history

Firefighters in Louchats, France, on 17 July 2022

European wildfires have released a record amount of carbon

4 August 2022

The climate-warming pollution from wildfires in the first half of 2022 in the EU and UK has been on a par with the annual emissions of Croatia

Damage is surveyed at homes gutted by fire on 25 July 2022 in Wennington, Greater London, the UK

Record weather conditions made the UK's destructive wildfires possible

2 August 2022

A fire weather index, which estimates how conducive weather conditions are for wildfires, was at its highest ever level as grass fires raged on 19 July, the UK's hottest day

The ozone layer was damaged by Australia’s Black Summer megafires

17 March 2022

Ozone levels above the mid-southern hemisphere dropped 13 per cent after Australia’s worst fires on record due to chemical reactions triggered by the smoke

Extreme air pollution from US wildfires now affects millions of people

5 January 2022

The simultaneous occurence of extreme levels of ozone and particulate matter have increased significantly in the past decade due to wildfires in the western US