Devastating wildfire, flooding and extreme heat events took place over the past year, several resulting in mass fatalities.

Pollution from fires, intensified by rising temperatures, is on track to become one of America’s deadliest climate disasters. Source: Nature Note: Midcentury projection uses a moderate warming ...

As our planet continues to warm, the number of Americans who die each year from wildfire smoke could rise from 40,000 today to 71,000 in 2050, finds a recent study. Scientists usually focus on PM ...

Canada's worst wildfire season on record tarnished the country's air quality and had similar effects on pollution in parts of the United States, according to a new report. University of Chicago ...

Tim Fang is a digital producer at CBS Bay Area. A Bay Area native, Tim has been a part of the CBS Bay Area newsroom for more than two decades and joined the digital staff in 2006. Most evacuation ...

Wildfire has long been a part of life for many Americans. But recently, as wildfires have become larger, more destructive and longer-lasting, a new risk has come into focus for millions across the ...

The Garnet Fire has scorched nearly 60,000 acres of the Sierra Nevada in central California. The wildfire burning in the mountains northeast of Fresno was 85% contained as of Tuesday, Sept. 16, after ...

Chinese Camp was once a bustling mining outpost for thousands of immigrants who worked the gold fields of the Southern Sierra. Then it was a historic landmark where tourists could revisit an ...

The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom. Read more on our AI policy here. The wildfire initially started 1:22 ...