A Nation Aflame

After last year's conflagrations, can we learn to live with wildfire?

Last year’s wildfire season, one of the worst in the past half-century, didn’t waste any time getting started.

Bureau of Land Management

As subdivisions such as this one in Idaho encroach on areas prone to wildfires, uncleared vegetation near the homes increases the risk from intermix fires. Bureau of Land Management

Large amounts of smoke (blue haze) from boreal fires (red) blanket eastern Siberia and northern Sakhalin Island in this Sept.