Special Report

Wildfires and Climate Change

An Australian wildfire has killed at least 135 people, and some experts are blaming global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions for this and other recent blazes. What is the role of climate change in wildfires?

February 9, 2009

Sustainability

Wildfires Factor Significantly in Global Carbon Balance

November 7, 2002 — Sarah Graham

Sustainability

Warming Climate May Increase Western Wildfire Woes

July 7, 2006 — David Biello

Sustainability

Study Unravels Mathematics of Wildfires

March 22, 2005 — Sarah Graham

Sustainability

Forgotten Flames

Ecologists work to salve the Great Basin¿s burns

August 4, 2003 — Dennis Watkins

Southern California wildfires destroy hundreds of homes

November 16, 2008 — Ivan Oransky

Death toll climbs in Aussie wildfires

February 9, 2009 — Jordan Lite

Sustainability

Scientists Develop a Wildfire Forecasting System

July 16, 2001 — Harald Franzen

Could Wildfires Save the Arctic?

July 25, 2008 — JR Minkel

Wildfires Factor Significantly in Global Carbon Balance

Warming Climate May Increase Western Wildfire Woes

Study Unravels Mathematics of Wildfires

Forgotten Flames

Southern California wildfires destroy hundreds of homes

Death toll climbs in Aussie wildfires

Scientists Develop a Wildfire Forecasting System

Could Wildfires Save the Arctic?

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