climate change Colorado Fires Show Need For More Fire-Resistant Homes With wildfires still burning in suburbs outside of Boulder, Colorado, experts are calling for more awareness to the growing threat. Many communities and homes are not built to be fire-resilient, despite the cost to fireproof being low. “We need to rethink how we’re building,” says Jennifer Balch of EarthLab at University of Colorado Boulder.
Wildfires As Wildfire Season Gets Longer, Residents of At-Risk Areas Face a Hard Choice The devastation of towns like Grizzly Flats, California, by wildfire is become a more common occurrence. A new report by Climate Central shows that the number of “fire weather days” each year — days that are hot, dry and windy — have soared over the past 5 decades. NBCLX Chase Cain reports from California’s Caldor fire.
Wildfires How Wildfires Start— And Why Climate Change Is Making Them Worse Lots of you have questions about wildfires as we hear more about them - and we've answered them here.
Wildfires What It's Like Near the Caldor Wildfire Burning in California The Caldor wildfire is still burning near Sacramento, California. Not far from the fire line, NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain shows us a house sprayed with fire retardant and we talk about the connection between climate change and wildfires.
Wildfires Wildfires: Why It's Not Always About Extinguishing Flames When a wildfire spreads widely, firefighters might not be able to extinguish all the flames – and have to let it burn. So they focus on containment, creating a barrier that the fire can’t pass. In this LXplanation, we talk about how firefighters contain wildfires.
Wildfires Climate Change is Making Wildfires More Frequent — and More Dangerous 2020 was the worst wildfire season on record—and wildfires are only getting more destructive. Learn what causes them and how climate change contributes.
climate change What You Can Do to Prevent a Drought From Getting Worse Individual decisions like reducing your water use on your lawn or not using animal products can make a long-term difference and prevent droughts, says behavioral scientist Sweta Chakraborty.
Wildfires California Warns: A Single Spark Can Cause a Big Wildfire Fire risk is high right now in California with high temperatures and an accumulation of dry brush. The state is warning residents to not even mow the lawn, in case their mower hits a rock and sparks a blaze that gets out of control. NBC San Diego meteorologist Keith Bryant explains.
Wildfires A Drone Pilot Got Tired of Filming Real Estate. Now He Rescues Animals Instead of filming luxury skyscrapers, Doug Thron started using his drone expertise to help track and rescue animals left stranded after natural disasters. He explains how he rescued dogs after a wildfire and what you can see in his upcoming show “Doug to the Rescue” on CuriosityStream.
climate change How the 2020 Wildfire Season Impacted This Year's California Wine Smoke taint from the 2020 California wildfires made its way over to some vineyards and tainted their crop. But some businesses went ahead and made tainted, ashy-tasting wine anyway.
