The latest science on the link between climate change and natural disasters — and how they may be playing out where you live.

Climatologists and wildfire experts agree that human-caused climate change is worsening wildfires. Hotter, drier and windier weather can make it easier for wildfires to start and continue burning.

The real question isn’t whether wildfires are caused by climate change, poor forestry or reckless development; it’s how climate change interacts with other factors.

Europe has been experiencing dozens of extreme weather events in recent weeks, from blistering heatwaves to raging storms. ...

Climate change has ratcheted up the risk of explosive wildfire growth in California by 25% and will continue to drive extreme fire behavior for decades to come, even if planet-warming emissions ...

The very same federal government that is now blaming the problem of wildfires on climate change. Thirty-one percent of all forest land in America is owned by federal agencies, about 238 million acres.

Climate change is making fire season worse. Over the past five years, wildfires have torched more than 38 million acres across the country, destroying thousands of homes and structures.

Climate change is often blamed for the increase in the intensity and frequency of wildfires. Rising global temperatures dry out vegetation, making it more susceptible to catching fire.

Wildfires and climate change are locked in a vicious circle: Fires worsen climate change, and climate change worsens fires. Scientists, including those at the World Resources Institute, have been ...

A 2015 study on wildfires in the Colorado Front Range Corridor found that the expansion of the wildland-urban Interface — more people living on the edge of forests — and climate change were ...

“The Dragon Bravo Fire on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park exhibited extreme and volatile fire behavior the evening of July 12, resulting in a 500-acre expansion,” the National Park Service ...

FILE – A jogger runs along McCovey Cove outside Oracle Park in San Francisco, under darkened skies from wildfire smoke on Sept. 9, 2020. As Earth’s climate continues to change from heat ...