‘Atmosphere has a memory’: Pollution spikes can heat the sky for 48 hours before cooling
For about two days after pollution from people and wildfires fills the air, the atmosphere may warm instead…
Watch Duty Is Adding Flood Alerts to Its Wildfire App
Watch Duty, the wildfire alert app, is introducing flood alerts to its popular disaster-awareness service. This is the…
Fighting Fire With Fire – NASA Science
In May and June of most years, NASA satellites typically begin to detect large numbers of wildland fires…
Bigger US wildfires are reversing progress on clean air
WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than a decade, the United States dramatically reduced its national smog levels, but…
NASA Develops Sensor to Improve Firefighter Safety
With peak wildfire season approaching, scientists with NASA’s FireSense project have created low-cost thermal sensors to install on…
Opinion | The Forests of the American West Are in Danger
In much of the Southwest, the ponderosa pine is the one and only truly big tree, thriving in…
5,000-mile-long marine heat wave set to hit American waters — here’s what it means for this summer
An extreme temperature pattern in the Pacific Ocean is poised to have significant effects on western North America…
New NASA Views of Earth, From (S)PACE
NASA’s photos of Earth released during Artemis II’s mission around the moon show our planet against the dark…
New Ideas in the Climate Change Fight
Climate change can feel like an insurmountable issue, but we aren’t as alone in fighting for our planet…
Farm Bankruptcies Climb, Nigeria Distributes Clean Cookstoves, Uganda Moves to Certify Agroecological Produce – Food Tank
Each week, Food Tank is rounding up a few news stories that inspire excitement, infuriation, or curiosity. U.S.…
Fires Tear Through Nebraska Grasslands
On the afternoon of March 12, 2026, a wildland fire ignited in Morrill County, Nebraska. Within 12 hours,…
About 100 toxic Superfund sites vulnerable to flooding, storms, wildfires
WASHINGTON (AP) — About 100 of the nation’s most contaminated toxic waste sites are in areas prone to…