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Wildfires

ClimateEnvironmentWildfires

The cost of wildfires is rising. But by how much?

States are struggling to budget given incomplete data By Jessie Blaeser / Grist This story…
Jessie Blaeser
Jessie BlaeserDecember 1, 2022
Wildfires

The world’s least understood ignition source is causing devastating wildfires

By Austyn Gaffney / High Country News On a hot, dry, windy summer morning in…
Austyn Gaffney
Austyn GaffneyAugust 2, 2022
ClimateWildfires

Growing sprawl in WA woods comes with high wildfire risk

Policymakers and homeowners are scrambling to manage the so-called 'wildland-urban interface' to mitigate the threat…
Anushuya Thapa
Anushuya ThapaJune 15, 2022
Wildfires

How one Oregon town put politics aside to save itself from fire

By Nathanael Johnson / Grist They assembled in the parking lot outside the ranger station…
Nathanael Johnson
Nathanael JohnsonJanuary 26, 2022
EnvironmentWildfires

Hundreds of firefighters. 20 bulldozers. Intentional burns: Inside Washington’s $328M push to break cycle of disastrous fires

Legislature unites in support of massive cash infusion to step up firefighting, improve forests and…
Levi Pulkkinen
Levi PulkkinenApril 16, 2021
A person stands in the middle of the wreckage of a burnt building.Decarbonizing CascadiaEnvironmentWildfires

Will race, income inequalities trip up Cascadia’s fight against climate change?

  The heavy wind woke Niria Garcia about 5 a.m. It whipped against her home,…
Iris M. Crawford
Iris M. CrawfordMarch 3, 2021
ClimateEnvironmentSmoky Skies Altered LivesWildfires

With nearly 1 million homes at risk, Washington is losing the wildfire fight

In Washington state, nearly 1 million homes sit near forests threatened by seasonal wildfires. And…
Levi Pulkkinen
Levi PulkkinenOctober 19, 2020
ClimateEnvironmentSmoky Skies Altered LivesWildfires

Farmworkers forced to put harvest over health during wildfires

As wildfires increasingly become the norm, farmworkers work in hazardous smoke conditions up and down…
Mara Kardas-Nelson
Mara Kardas-NelsonOctober 6, 2020
Smoky Skies Altered LivesWildfires

PNW wildfires sicken people in the Midwest and beyond

Researchers estimate that nearly every American is exposed to wildfire smoke each year, even if…
Mara Kardas-Nelson
Mara Kardas-NelsonOctober 1, 2020
One firefighter confronts burning landscape with hoseClimateSmoky Skies Altered LivesWildfires

Overstretched wildland firefighters risk lung, heart maladies

Wildland firefighters battle increasingly long and hostile fire seasons and often rely on makeshift cloth…
Mara Kardas-Nelson
Mara Kardas-NelsonSeptember 28, 2020
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