Topic: forest fires

Blanket of smog covers the city as air pollution increases due to the ongoing wildfires around the village of Kharyyalakh in Sakha, Russia on August 13, 2021. (Ivan Nikiforov/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Boreal wildfires set carbon record

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
A burned residence smolders during the Bear fire, part of the North Lightning Complex fires, in unincorporated Butte County, California on September 09, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Learning to love burned trees

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Cal firefighter Travis Moore lights a backfire along highway 50 as the Caldor Fire burns near Lake Tahoe, CA on Tuesday August 31, 2021. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Scrublands are replacing western forests

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
Cal firefighter Travis Moore lights a backfire along highway 50 as the Caldor Fire burns near Lake Tahoe, CA on Tuesday August 31, 2021. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Prescribed fires can prevent big blazes

Madeline Ostrander - Undark
A burned residence smolders during the Bear fire, part of the North Lightning Complex fires, in unincorporated Butte County, California on September 09, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Western fires are burning higher

Mojtaba Sadegh, John Abatzoglou, Mohammad Reza Alizadeh - The Conversation
Firefighters light backfires as they try to contain the Thomas wildfire which continues to burn in Ojai, California on December 9, 2017. Brutal winds that fueled southern California's firestorm finally began to ease Saturday, giving residents and firefighters hope for respite as the destructive toll of multiple blazes came into focus. / AFP PHOTO / MARK RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)

It’s not just the Amazon that’s ablaze

Claire F.R. Wordley - The Conversation
(AP/Jae C. Hong)

Parts of CA: Too many fires to insure

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
(AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

Glacier National Park is on fire

Eric Holthaus - Grist
(AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

Fires rage in Northern California

Matthew Rozsa

Simeon Tegel - GlobalPost