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Wildfire Urgency Unites Congress. The ‘Fix Our Forests’ Act Does Not.

A House hearing exposed sharp divisions over whether loosening environmental laws and expanding logging will protect communities from catastrophic fires. Scientists urged a shift toward investing in fire-resilient homes and landscapes.

By Katie Surma

Congress Has Doubts About the Trump Administration’s New Wildfire Management Plans

By Kiley Price

Patagonia Is Burning

By Anika Jane Beamer

A California Climate Expert Is Working to Restore Climate Risk Scores Deleted by Zillow

By Claire Barber

A Record Wildfire Season Inspires Wyoming to Prepare for an Increasingly Fiery Future

By Jake Bolster

Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year

By Johnny Sturgeon

An Idaho Bird Research Station Rises From the Ashes of a Wildfire

By William von Herff

The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

Hope—and Many Fears—Follow in the Wake of Trump’s Plan to Transform Wildland Firefighting

By Kiley Price

Disaster Survivors Denounce Proposed FEMA Downsizing

By Anika Jane Beamer

A man uses a wrench stuck into a pipe to turn off a burning gas line during the Eaton Fire on Jan. 8 in Altadena, Calif. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

LA Wildfire Survivors Want to Rebuild All-Electric, but a Utility Is Using Customer Funds to Incentivize Gas Appliances

By Hilary Beaumont

A high-severity burn in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. Wildfires are altering the snowpack, a crucial source of water in the West. Credit: Arielle Koshkin

In Burned Forests, the West’s Snowpack Is Melting Earlier

By Mitch Tobin, The Water Desk

Fire burns through leaves as a prescribed burn takes place at High Park in Toronto. Credit: Lance McMillan/Toronto Star via Getty Images

How Indigenous Cultural Burns Can Help Heal Climate-Ravaged Forests—and People

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

For Many Disabled Fire Victims in Los Angeles, a Continuing Trauma

Story and photos by Nina Dietz

Rebecca Gentry lost more than 50,000 trees on her family’s ranch during the 2021 PF Fire near Hardin, Mont. Credit: Mast Reforestation

Is Burying the Trees Killed by Wildfires a Climate Solution?

By Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan

A man views his property as it burns during the Eaton Fire in the Altadena area of Los Angeles County on Jan. 8. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images

Taking Stock in Altadena Nine Months After the Devastating LA Fires

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Government Shutdown Could Disrupt Timing of Crucial Conservation and Wildfire Efforts

By Kiley Price

Natural Disasters Are a Rising Burden for the National Guard

By Marianne Lavelle

Detroit Is the Nation’s Most Challenging City for People with Asthma, a New Report Suggests

By K.R. Callaway

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