Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wildfires made significant contributions to air pollution last year, according to the United Nations’ weather and climate agency.

Climate change plaintiffs now claim that greenhouse gases are causing property damage through fire, flood, and frost, ...

Wildfires across the western United States are burning with an intensity that can overwhelm suppression crews, and multiple ...

Global average temperatures last year were tied for the hottest on record, capping what was also the planet's hottest decade ever recorded, according to new data analysis released Friday. The last six ...

Earth just endured one of its most extreme wildfire years on record — and scientists say human-driven climate change is the cause. A sweeping new analysis, the State of Wildfires 2024–25 report, finds ...

From tornadoes and hurricanes to wildfires and floods, weather and climate disasters cause billions of dollars in damage, on top of their steep human toll. Those costs could rise sharply in the years ...

Not a day goes by without the mainstream media attributing a disaster or problem, global and/or regional, to human-caused climate change. Claims that human greenhouse gas emissions are responsible for ...

Simultaneous emergencies in different parts of the world could stop countries from sharing ground crews and equipment, new research warns.

The fires now raging in Colorado and elsewhere may be bad, but scientists studying the relationship between wildfires and climate change have this warning: In the coming years, they're probably going ...

Many extreme weather events are becoming more common and more intense around the world, fuelled by human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels. Here are four ways that rising temperatures are ...

Correction appended: Oct. 24, 2013, 2:05 a.m. E.T. Wildfires are nothing new in Australia, a sunburned country with plenty of vegetation to burn to a crisp when temperatures skyrocket during the ...