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How We Will Turn It Around: Rebounding From America’s 2020 Nightmare
The pandemic and the western fires are examples of a catastrophic failure by America’s government to protect the public.
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Double Trouble: The Importance of Thinking About Compound Risk
Compound risk — when multiple risks occur simultaneously, or one after another — was the topic of a recent discussion as part of the Resilience Media Project, a part of the Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at the Earth Institute.
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Bushfires in Australia Continue to Devastate New Zealand Glaciers
Smoke and ash from Australia’s devastating fires pose a significant threat to New Zealand’s glaciers.
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Trump’s Continued Climate Denial and the Fires of California
If we are to address climate change, environmental protection must once again be seen as above politics and an unfit arena for partisan battle.
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As Temperatures Rise, More California Forests Will Burn
Park Williams and Richard Seager, climate experts at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, discuss why California wildfires are expected to expand and intensify with climate change.
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Protecting the Amazon Requires Changing Policy and Eating Less Beef
Global demand for beef is fueling the Amazon rainforest fires, and it will take a global solution to fix it.
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You Asked: How Destructive Are the Amazon Rainforest Fires? Can They Be Stopped?
An Earth Institute adjunct tackles reader questions about the record-breaking fires in Brazil.
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Study Bolsters Case That Climate Change Is Driving Many California Wildfires
A new study combs through the factors that can promote wildfires in California, and concludes that in many cases, warming climate is the decisive driver.
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Harnessing Big Data and Machine Learning to Forecast Wildfires in the Western U.S.
New research will advance understanding of how wildfires may evolve in the future, and how we can most effectively respond to them.
