In just a single month, 2025 is the second most destructive fire year in California history, with more than 16,000 homes and other structures damaged or destroyed by two fires in the Los Angeles area.

For more than a century, conservation policy has focused on economic development and wisely using natural resources.

Fire spotters used to watch with binoculars from forest towers. Now, technology can help forecast fire behavior, but human ...

California has just experienced one of its worst wildfire seasons in years, despite the Golden State's ample resources to ...

California is investing $15 million to offset climate change threats to salmon and steelhead trout in river and stream ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat and the former mayor of San Francisco, America’s liberal center, has waived environmental ...

Caltrans crews cleared the roadside along Highway 229 in San Luis Obispo County as part of California’s wildfire and forest ...

A study from the U.S. Geological Survey found the ecosystems on California's public lands are losing the carbon they've ...

Tuesday's report, too rapid for peer-review yet, found global warming boosted the likelihood of high fire weather conditions ...

Aerial firefighting companies supplement federal and state firefighting fleets, and their services are in high demand.

The source of more than half of all wildfires in the Western US remains unknown, so the US Forest Service has teamed up with ...