By Benjamin Cossel, Stanislaus National Forest If they’d only known. Back in the 1850s, miners in the Sierra Nevada gold-rush...
Paper adds clarity to contentious debate with implications for lives and property David Colgan, UCLA Key takeaways Experts authored a...
By Julie Cart, Cal Matters Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today for nonprofit news in your inbox. Cal Fire Battalion Chief Jon Heggie wasn’t expecting much to worry about when...
California’s forests are facing a growing threat: wildfires. The severity and frequency of these fires are on the rise, fueled...
By Ria Roebuck Joseph | The Center Square California is gearing up for the 2023 fire season with a host...
At the June meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen spotlighted an article on the connection between the Australian wildfires in 2020 and California’s recent drought. Recent headlines have been proclaiming the return of El...
Fire officials are bracing for the worst as scientists predict that climate change could cause more lightning strikes, which often...
A new study shows that midwinter dry spells lead to dramatic losses of winter snowpack in burned areas By the...
By Amir AghaKouchak, University of California, Irvine Rivers of muddy water from heavy rainfall raced through city streets as thousands of people evacuated homes downhill from California’s wildfire burn scars amid atmospheric river storms drenching the state in early January...
When wildfires burn in the west, their heat and airborne particles inflict stronger rain and larger hail upon central states...
FEATURE: How Wildfire-damaged Plastic Pipes Contaminate Drinking water – and What We Can Do About It
Written for Maven’s Notebook by Robin Meadows The first time a reporter asked public health researcher Gina Solomon if wildfires...
By Erika Bolstad, Stateline Don Myron is probably best known as the guy who survived one of the deadliest fires in Oregon’s history by sheltering overnight in a river with a patio chair. So there was never any question that...
Regulators approved “seriously deficient” fire prevention plans, including from PG&E, which sparked California’s deadliest wildfire, state auditor says. By Julie...
Streamflow in the West has been below average since the early 2000s, but a new analysis shows that streams aren’t...
By Kathleen Wong, UC NRS In 2020, a massive lightning storm ignited wildfires across much of Northern California. Among the thousands of acres it charred were multiple coastal watersheds from San Mateo County to Big Sur. For UC Santa Cruz...