Climate change is increasing the risk of wildfires in many regions of the world. This is due partly to specific weather ...

Climate change is increasing the risk of wildfires in many regions of the world. This is due partly to specific weather conditions – known as fire weather – that facilitate the spread of wildfires.

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a ...

Over the past forty years, simultaneous fire-weather days in the two regions have increased by roughly one per year. The ...

A container vessel loads cargo at Nansha Port in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, on Tuesday as the port launched its first direct shipping route to the west coast of South America. [QIU QUANLIN ...

The research was published in Earth's Future. The west coast of North America and the east coast of Australia have been repeatedly hit hard by wildfires. For example, the January 2025 wildfire ...

In 2013, a sea star wasting syndrome decimated populations of Pisaster along the west coast of North America and along the Monterey Peninsula in California, where this study was conducted.

This should have West Coasters shaking in their shoes.

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust above it to "drip" and suck down rocks from across the continent.

Seattle joins Vancouver as the PWHL's first two expansion teams, bringing the growing league to eight teams now spanning west to east across North America. The other teams ... announced the first ...