While our short-term response to extreme weather must remain on adaptation, in the long run, we need to understand the reality of the warmer planet we live on and work to mitigate climate change.
Columbia Climate School experts comment on the dangerous air pollution from Canadian wildfires.
Smoke from wildfires is a health threat to everyone, but Indigenous people in South America are especially vulnerable due to a number of factors.
Aircraft collecting data from clouds of smoke have revealed surprising effects of wildfires on the ground.
It’s not just PG&E’s equipment that leaves California vulnerable to fires. For more than 100 years, the company has released carbon into the atmosphere, aggravating the climate crisis that’s turning the state’s forests into kindling.
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Emma Lauterbach
|October 18, 2022
One year after the devastating wildfire, residents of Greenville, Calif., are working to rebuild. Experts from the National Center for Disaster Preparedness co-hosted a training to facilitate the process.
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Elise Gout
|September 15, 2022
In addition to studying climate-related hazards, Juang is a talented artist who helps make STEM fields more accessible for underrepresented minorities. Somehow, she also finds time to sleep.
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Alexis Earl
|August 24, 2022
A talk with two leaders of the Biden administration’s effort to fight fire before things burn.
Fires may increase stream flow for years after sweeping the surface, and temporarily increase downstream water supplies. But they may also increase the risks of landslides and floods in affected areas.
An interview with a homeowner whose block survived while others burned reinforces longstanding advice from experts on living in fire-prone landscapes.