Wildfire Season 2021

October 2, 2021 | Dangerous Air: As California burns, America breathes toxic smoke | Jefferson Public Radio | Marshall Burke is quoted

October 1, 2021 | Wildfires have worsened Fresno’s bad air quality. Here’s what the experts say to do | The Fresno Bee 

September 3, 2021 | Climate Change Makes Megafires Like Caldor Fire In Lake Tahoe ‘Worse’ | Capital Public Radio News | Chris Field is quoted

August 26, 2021 | California's Wildfire Problem Could Be Solved by a Few Legal Changes | TIME | Michael Wara is quoted

August 15, 2021 | Can a Covid Mask Protect Me From Wildfire Smoke? | The New York Times | Mary Prunicki is quoted

August 13, 2021 | When Will The Dixie Fire Be Contained? Wildfire Could Burn Until Winter Rain Arrives | Newsweek | Rebecca Miller is quoted

August 11, 2021 | Wildfires Highlight What’s ‘Gone Wrong’ in Pollution Mitigation | Bloomberg Law | Michael Wara is quoted

August 10, 2021 | California's Dixie Fire casts pall of noxious smoke 1000 miles from flames | The Baltimore Sun | Mary Prunicki is quoted

August 8, 2021 | The Dixie fire is now California’s second biggest wildfire, and it’s not over yet | Quartz | Noah Diffenbaugh is cited

July 27, 2021 |Plumes of Smoke From Fires in the North American West Stretch Across the Continent | Smithsonian Magazine | Mary Prunicki is quoted

July 27, 2021 | More 'good fire' could help California control future catastrophes | National Geographic | Michael Wara is quoted

July 23, 2021 | Wildfire smoke blowing across the U.S. is more toxic than we thought | National Geographic | Mary Prunicki is quoted

July 22, 2021 | Power lines and high winds ignite southern California's deadliest fires, study finds | The Mercury News | Noah Diffenbaugh is quoted

July 21, 2021 | Wildfire smoke can increase hazardous toxic metals in air, study finds | The Guardian | Mary Prunicki is quoted

July 21, 2021 | What Northern California can learn from study of deadly Southern California wildfires | The Mercury News | Noah Diffenbaugh is quoted

July 19, 2021 | Much of the American West is on fire. Again | Mic | Noah Diffenbaugh is quoted

July 14, 2021 | Struvite recovered from wastewater could be used to suppress wildfires | Chemistry World | Craig Criddle and Eric Appel are cited

July 7, 2021 | Forecasting wildfires: Scientists mapping fuel sources around Bay Area | KRON | Alexandra Konings is quoted

July 2, 2021 | As July 4 approaches, extreme drought and heat pose wildfire risk in the West |The Hill | Authored by Noah Diffenbaugh and Chris Field

June 29, 2021 | How should the US prepare for another intense wildfire season? | Aljazeera | Michael Wara and Chris Field are quoted

June 29, 2021 | As the West begins to burn, Biden to talk wildfires with Newsom and other governors | Los Angeles Times

June 27, 2021 | California wildfires: Fighting bigger blazes with Silicon Valley technology | The Mercury News

June 25, 2021 | New fire retardant requires one-time treatment to provide protection for entire fire season | ABC7 | Eric Appel is quoted

June 19, 2021 | ‘Forever War’ With Fire Has California Battling Forests Instead | Bloomberg Green

June 18, 2021 | Heat wave raises fears western U.S. states could face severe fire season | The Washington Post