But the authors speculate that warmer, drier conditions brought on by a changing climate combined with a lack of prescribed fires has led to a proliferation of woodier plants, trees, and shrubs ...

As wildfires raged in the Western U.S. this summer, the major broadcast TV networks largely failed to explain how climate change influences such fires, mentioning climate change in less than 2 ...

Are they a signal of more fires along the East Coast? (Getty Images) Rapidly alternating from wetter to drier weather thanks to human-driven climate change is what climatologist Daniel Swain has ...