Wildfires Archives

Wildfires

We Started the Fire

by Clayton Dalton,

The risks of prescribed burns in a warming climate

Prayer for a Just War

by Greg Jackson,

Finding meaning in the climate fight

Combustion Engines

by Richard Manning,

On any given day last summer, the smoke-choked skies over Missoula, Montana, swarmed with an average of twenty-eight helicopters and eighteen fixed-wing craft, a blitz waged against Lolo Peak, Rice…

There Will Always Be Fires

by Scott Sayare,

The pinhal interior, a wooded region of hills and narrow hollows in rural central Portugal, used to be farmland. Well into the latter half of the past century, the fields…

As the World Burns

by Harper’s Magazine,

If it seems as though the world’s on fire, that’s because it is. Wildfires are starting earlier in the dry season and burning for longer. As of October 2017, European…