Q&A: How scientists tackle the challenges of estimating wildfire CO2 emissions
Wildfires – and their emissions – have made headlines around the world this year. From the otherworldly haze that blanketed ...
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The Reach of Wildfire Smoke Is Going Global and Undoing Progress on Clean Air
On the heels of an exceptionally fiery and smoky summer, two new reports released Wednesday confirmed what many Americans have ...
Choked Out: The Wildfire Smoke Threat to Tree Planters
A thick grey haze brewed above Alberta’s Slave Lake region in the summer of 2021. Seth Forward thrust his shovel ...
Patrick Brown criticized his own wildfire study. An uproar ensued.
Comment on this storyCommentIt started with a paper in one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world.Patrick T. ...
Breathing Wildfire Smoke Could Raise Dementia Risk, New Study Finds
Exposure to wildfire smoke and air pollution from farming operations could be making Americans more susceptible to developing dementia, a ...
DeBriefed 8 September 2023: Africa’s first climate summit; Wildfire study controversy; Palestine’s struggle for climate funds
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This is an online ...
How to Spot a Wildfire: Weighing Fire Lookouts and Technology
If, on a hot, dry day a fire should break out within a certain 300,000-acre patch of northwest Montana, in ...
Invasive species have created a cycle of wildfire in Hawaiʻi. Can Maui break it?
In April 2016, a wildfire burned 2,000 acres of Minnewaska State Park, a nature preserve in New York’s Hudson Valley. ...
A nasty wildfire pollutant could worsen climate change
Climate change is worsening wildfires. Increases in drought, air temperature, and lightning cause hotter, drier, and longer fire seasons. By ...
A Deserted Northern City Faces Down a ‘Monster’ Wildfire
There’s an eerie quiet as Stephanie Vaillancourt drives around Yellowknife this week. The pretty northern city on the shore of ...
