High alert: Deadly Northwest fires burn hundreds of homes
Deadly windblown wildfires raging across the Pacific Northwest destroyed hundreds of homes in Oregon, the governor said Wednesday, warning it could be the greatest loss of life and property from wildfire in state history.
Fires, hurricanes, triple-digit heat: Think 2020′s disasters are wild? Experts see worse in future
A record amount of California is burning, spurred by a nearly 20-year mega-drought. To the north, parts of Oregon that don’t usually catch fire are in flames.
'Heartbreaking destruction': A dozen large wildfires burning in Washington
The 300,000-plus acres that have burned in Washington state over the past 24 hours is more than double the total acreage that burned in the state last year.
Over 2.2 million acres torched as California experiences record-breaking wildfire season in 2020
California is experiencing a record-breaking fire season. Fire officials said Tuesday that in 2020, wildfires have torched more than 2.2 million acres across the state, surpassing the 1.96 million acres burned in all of 2018.
Washington 'firestorm' destroys 80% of small town as wildfires rage in Pacific Northwest
Nearly every structure in a small town in eastern Washington state was destroyed in a raging wildfire on Monday as weather conditions have allowed blazes to grow across the Pacific Northwest.
Yellowstone's Giantess Geyser erupts for first time in 6 years, roars 'back to life'
After a slumber that stretched for more than six years, a geyser at Yellowstone National Park erupted once again last week.
Weather improves, thousands of evacuated Californians return home after wildfires
In the past two days, evacuation orders were lifted for at least 50,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area and wine country, officials with the state fire agency, Cal Fire, said Thursday evening. At their peak, some 170,000 people were under evacuation orders.
Some Californians didn’t get evacuation alerts in wildfires
“They alert us about all kinds of crap, but this was life-threatening,” she said, adding that she got an alert in April about a bear sighting 15 miles away. “If fire’s going to be a way of life for California, we at least have to have an alert system.”
California inmates battling wildfires despite COVID-19, early releases
Inmate firefighters feel they've been forgotten by the California Department of Corrections and forced to keep battling wildfires as prisoners convicted of similar or more serious crimes are let out of prison early amid the coronavirus pandemic.
'Historic in nature:' Some California fires scorching earth at 1,000 acres an hour
Some fires burning in that area were eating up the earth as fast as 1,000 acres an hour.
Greenland lost 586 billion tons of ice in record melt last year
“Not only is the Greenland ice sheet melting, but it’s melting at a faster and faster pace,” said study lead author Ingo Sasgen, a geoscientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany.
Greenland lost 586 billion tons of ice in 2019 | Global Climate Crisis
A new satellite study finds that Greenland lost 586 billion tons of ice (140 trillion gallons of water) in a record melt in 2019 — enough to cover all of California in more than four feet of water.
Amazon rainforest continues to burn in 2020 despite promises to save it
This year, Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro pledged to control the burning. He imposed a four-month ban on most fires and sent in the army.
'This is like a diamond in the rough:' Community helps cleanup McGovern Park in Milwaukee
The staff from Serving Older Adults hosts cleanup day at McGovern Park on Thursday, Aug. 13.
EPA announces $137M loan to Waukesha for Great Lakes Water Supply Project
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced funding assistance to the City of Waukesha for a project that would help transport water to and from Milwaukee and Lake Michigan.
Wisconsin DNR policy board delays rules setting new PFAS restrictions
The Wisconsin DNR's policy board voted unanimously on Wednesday to table rules setting new restrictions on firefighting foams that contain PFAS chemicals.