August 5, 2021 Raging wildfire destroys parts of Northern California Gold Rush town A wind-driven wildfire tore through a Northern California mountain town, leaving much of the downtown in ashes as crews braced for another explosive run of flames in the midst of dangerous weather.
August 3, 2021 Firefighter battling western wildfires shares his story on front lines Ryan Meehan is one of more than 22,000 wildland firefighters and support personnel working to extinguish the flames of some of America’s biggest wildfires.
August 3, 2021 Record wildfire burns on Hawaii's Big Island amid historic drought Firefighters gained more control over a wildfire in Hawaii that forced thousands of people to evacuate over the weekend and destroyed at least two homes on the Big Island, but officials warned that strong winds will return on Tuesday, raising the danger again.
July 22, 2021 Sen. Risch tears into Stone-Manning amid tied committee vote Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, tore into President Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) amid the tied committee vote to advance her nomination.
July 2, 2021 Biden nominee for land agency touted husband's suggestion to let houses caught in forest fires 'burn' Tracy Stone-Manning pushed her husband Richard Manning’s 2018 Harper’s Magazine report on wildfires where he wrote the “political issue” surrounding people living in or around forests is “easily solved” by having the federal government make fighting fires “a social contract.”
June 29, 2021 NASA studies Louisiana delta system in effort to combat global climate change Erosion, sinking land and sea rise from climate change have killed the Louisiana woods where a 41-year-old Native American chief played as a child. Not far away in the Mississippi River delta system, middle-school students can stand on islands that emerged the year they were born.
June 22, 2021 California's Willow Fire only keeps growing as inland blaze shuts down Mt. Whitney trailhead California's Willow Fire has scorched nearly 3,000 acres since igniting last week and evacuations and concerns mounted Tuesday in and beyond Monterey County.
June 19, 2021 California's Willow Fire spreads to 2,000 acres as record drought, heat continue to grip state California's Willow Fire exploded overnight on Friday, jumping from 750 acres on Friday afternoon to 2,000 acres early Saturday morning.
May 15, 2021 Rare orange-eyed owl spotted for the first time in more than 125 years For the first time since its discovery more than 125 years ago, scientists have documented the Bornean subspecies of the Rajah Scops-Owl (Otus brookii brookii) in the montane forest of Malaysia's Mount Kinabalu.
May 13, 2021 Arizona inmates battle raging wildfires Arizona inmates are working to help battle raging wildfires rapidly spreading across the state this week.
