At the turn of the century, wildfires destroyed only about 3% of the California homes they came into contact with. By 2020, the rate had risen to 18%, a new study found.

With federal cuts threatening to shut decadeslong studies down, marmot researchers in Crested Butte are getting...frisky.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Too many homes nationwide lack adequate protection from the growing risk of natural disasters.

Background Wildfire simulation models are used to derive maps of burn probability (BP) based on fuels, weather, topography and ignition locations, and BP maps are key components of wildfire risk asses...

The last decade has seen unprecedented levels of destruction from wildfires, pa...