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Devastating wildfires in Canada have continued to burn, and its smoke is already hitting the United States for a second wave this year.

Canada Is Hotboxing the United States Again

By Frank Landymore

SpaceX is still hard at work to get its Starship and Super Heavy booster prototypes ready for their big day. But not everything is going according to plan.

SpaceX Tested Starship’s Engines and Accidentally Caused a Large Fire

By Victor Tangermann

Police in LA issued an emergency evacuation order for the whole city amid Wednesday wildfires — and it really freaked out those who saw it.

Accidental Emergency Broadcast Says Everyone in Los Angeles Should Evacuate

By Noor Al-Sibai

Land Life, a company that offers carbon offsets to polluting industries through planting trees, has accidentally started a massive forest fire in Spain.

Company Providing Carbon Offsets Accidentally Sets Large Forest Fire

By Victor Tangermann

While addressing legislators on Thursday, EU commissioner Maroš Šefčovič warned that "the present drought in Europe could become the worst ever."

EU Warns That Current Drought Could Become “The Worst Ever” As Fires Spread

By Frank Landymore

Massive wildfires in California are forcing firefighters to wrap massive trees in fire-resistant blankets, including the world's largest tree by volume.

Science & Energy

Firefighters Wrap World’s Largest Tree in Foil to Protect From Raging Fire

By Victor Tangermann

Wildfires are raging across the entire globe right now, producing unprecedented amounts of greenhouse gases, visible scars left behind by climate change.

2021 Wildfires Spewed Record Breaking Amount of C02

By Victor Tangermann

NASA astronaut Megan McArthur told Insider about the unfortunate experience of being stationed on board the ISS while wildfires are raging across the world.

Science & Energy

Astronauts Alarmed by Huge Fires on Surface of Earth

By Victor Tangermann

As wildfires blaze through the drought-stricken American west, government agencies at all levels can't attract enough recruits to batle them.

Science & Energy

There Are So Many Wildfires That the US Can’t Find Enough Firefighters

By Dan Robitzski

A new video making its round son social media shows how the devastating wildfires in southern Turkey have become.

Science & Energy

Videos of Turkish Wildfires Are Like a Vision of Hell

By Victor Tangermann

The largest wildfire of this year's wildfire season in the US so far is so massive, it's causing absolute mayhem with the weather.

Science & Energy

A Forest Fire in Oregon Is So Huge That It’s Generating Freak Lightning Storms

By Victor Tangermann

90 percent of Lytton, British Columbia, a small village of approximately 250, burned to the ground after recording Canada's highest ever temperature ever.

Science & Energy

Town Sets All-Time Heat Record, Then Burns to the Ground

By Victor Tangermann

A huge chunk of the United States is primed for a horrific wildfire. Backyard fireworks displays are definitely not worth the risk.

Science & Energy

We Are Literally Begging You Idiots To Skip The Fireworks This Year

By Dan Robitzski

Firefighters across the West Coast are dropping special fireballs from drones to keep an unusually severe wildfire season under control.

Firefighters Are Using Drones That Drop Fireballs

By Victor Tangermann

New research shows that personally experiencing wildfires makes people more likely to support anti-climate change policy, regardless of political leanings.

Scientists: When People Experience Climate Change Firsthand, They Get Serious About It

By Dan Robitzski

Smoke from the devastating wildfires that have swept across the West Coast this past week has now reportedly drifted all the way across the United States.

West Coast Wildfire Smoke Hits NYC, Causing Weird-Looking Sunsets

By Jon Christian

Here’s Why Smartphones Are Struggling to Take Pics of Apocalyptic Skies

Here’s Why Smartphones Are Struggling to Take Pics of Apocalyptic Skies

By Victor Tangermann

Major wildfires are blanketing the West Coast right now, turning the skies an apocalyptic shade of orange. Parts of the Bay Area are seeing snowing ash.

The Skies in California Basically Look Like the Apocalypse Right Now

By Victor Tangermann

The wildfires raging in Australia could release a billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere by the end of the fire season, says Stanford scientist.

Renewable Energy

Australian Wildfires Could Release a Billion Tons of Carbon

By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers confirmed that climate change is indeed making wildfires worse after analyzing 57 peer-reviewed papers published since 2013.

Research: Climate Change Is Indeed Making Wildfires Worse

By Victor Tangermann

While the massive Australian fires were often treated as a local story, they could have massive, far-reaching effects on the global environment and climate.

The Huge Australian Fires Could Change the Entire Earth’s Climate

By Dan Robitzski

Images of the Australian wildfires taken from space show the full extent of the devastation, putting the ongoing catastrophe in terrifying context.

The Australian Wildfires Are So Bad You Can See Them From Space

By Kristin Houser

Fire Resistant Homes could help prevent extreme weather damage from climate change

New Fire-Resistant Homes the Next Line of Defense From Wildfires

A combination of machine learning and new data gathering tools could help warn firefighters in California earlier and possibly even save lives.

Machine Learning

How Machine Learning Could Help California Fight Wildfires

By Jon Christian

Tesla developed bioweapon defense mode to help drivers in the event of an attack, but it's also helping them breathe during California's wildfires.

Tesla’s “Bioweapon Defense Mode” Is Helping Californians Breathe

By Kristin Houser

A Wave of Climate Refugees Could Soon Emerge in the US

A Wave of Climate Refugees Could Soon Emerge in the US

By Chelsea Gohd

Forest fires like this one are costing millions of dollars.

Climate Change Is Increasing Forest Fires, and the Cost Will Be Huge

By Lou Del Bello

This Could Be The West’s Worst Fire Season Ever

This Could Be The West’s Worst Fire Season Ever

By Claudia Geib

Unmanned helicopters will be used to fight wildfires

Artificial Intelligence

Unmanned helicopters will be used to fight wildfires