NASA has released a series of new satellite data visualizations that show tens of millions of fires detected worldwide from space…
The blistering heat experienced by the nation during August, as well as…
For as long as people have been taking weather measurements in Texas, there has never been a summer hotter than…
Guardian: Now, Russia is burning again. Since the beginning of this year more than 1m hectares of forest have gone…
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — In 2007, the largest recorded tundra fire in the Arctic released approximately as much carbon into the…
Scientific American published a three-part series authored by award-winning science journalist John Carey and commissioned by the Pew Center on Global…
Rescuers and firefighters extinguished six wildfires over the past 24 hours and are trying to put out another six in…
Like this year’s other big wildfires — to date, 2011 is the biggest wildfire year for the U.S. in more…
The Wallow Fire continues to burn in Arizona and New Mexico, consuming 487,016 acres. The U.S. Forest Service reports the…
The Global Fire Information Management System (GFIMS) integrates remote sensing and GIS technologies to deliver MODIS hotspot/fire locations and burned…
In the past year, the world has seen a large number of extreme weather events, from the Russian heat wave…
(Reuters) – Fires are spreading fast across vast Siberian forests in a reminder of last year’s worst drought on record…
The current drought in the Southwest is partly an extension of a decade-long span of parched conditions across the region.…
Whilst changing climatic conditions may be exacerbating the growing number of mega-fires round the world, these fires may also themselves…
Wildfires continue to burn across the UK after a record breaking dry spell. Emergency services are trying to control the…
Fierce winds fanned raging fires across eastern New Mexico and Western Texas yesterday, thanks to a powerful flow of air…
The nation’s unprecedented April tornado-fest continued full force last night, with NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center logging 57 tornado reports, 295…
More than 1 million acres of Texas plains and forests has gone up in smoke this month as hundreds of…
Over the past week, the fires scorched hundreds of square miles of rural Texas, destroyed dozens of homes, and sent…
(Reuters) – Gale force winds and drought spawned raging wildfires across five states of the parched Southwest on Sunday, damaging…
As residents returned Tuesday to Western Australia neighborhoods where fierce bushfires destroyed dozens of homes, state officials announced they would…
The Agency’s new report ‘Mapping the impacts of natural hazards and technological accidents in Europe‘ addresses three different types of…
Several major catastrophes in 2010 resulted in substantial losses and an exceptionally high number of fatalities. The overall picture last…
ScienceDaily (Dec. 6, 2010) — Climate change is causing wildfires to burn more fiercely, pumping more greenhouse gases into the…
The worst fire in Israel’s history showed little sign of abating Friday, and after two days the unchecked blaze had…
The Climate Vulnerability Monitor is a new tool built to assess the vulnerability of our world to the many effects…
United Nations climate change negotiations have failed to deliver an agreement on reducing future greenhouse gas emissions to levels that…
In July 2010, massive rain in Pakistan led to unprecedented flooding that submerged one-fifth of the country and affected more…
Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters looks at disasters primarily through an economic lens. Economists emphasize self-interest to explain how people choose…
More wildfires have burned around the Russian capital this year than in the last decade and a half, according to…
Hundreds of wildfires fed by weeks of relentless drought have forced authorities to place 15 of Brazil’s 26 states under…
Lisbon – Portuguese firefighters were battling 18 major wildfires on Monday, mainly in the north of the country, civil protection…
Australian Academy of Science
Based on a series of key questions, this publication aims to address confusion created by contradictory information…
2010 is becoming the year of the heatwave, with record temperatures set in 17 countries.
The 2009 State of the Climate report draws on data for 10 key climate indicators that all point to the…
The death toll from hundreds of wildfires across Russia rose to 34 today as more than 2,200 people were left…
A new interactive Google Earth map showing the impacts of a 4 °C warmer world was launched today by the…
All the data you need to show that the world is warming
April 14, 2010: Posted by: Scott A. Mandia, Professor…
Australia’s two lead climate science agencies – the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology – have produced a snapshot of the…
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HANOI, 5 March 2010 (IRIN) – As temperatures rise in Vietnam, a nationwide drought has dried up riverbeds, sparked…
Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map
Cleo Paskal must be cursing the publishing gods.…
Analyzing global model warming projections in models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a team of scientists headed…
Australian agriculture needs to adapt now to climate change according to a CSIRO book launched today entitled: Adapting Agriculture to…
Several large bushfires were burning in southern Western Australia on February 18, 2010 (local time). According to alerts issued by…
An Antarctic ice core has revealed a link between drought conditions in south-west Western Australia and increased snowfall in Antarctica.
Australian…
