If climate change was a somewhat abstract notion a decade ago, today it is all too real for Californians fleeing wildfires and smothered in a blanket of smoke, the worst year of fires on record.

Longer, hotter summers are disrupting trade, roasting cities, devouring energy, and feeding the climate change cycle

Vast areas of the West experienced unknown levels of heat last month, setting the stage for the biggest fires ever seen in some states. Scientists say the heat could have larger consequences next...

Like the winds that race down the mountainsides near Los Angeles each fall, gaining heat and fanning the flames as they go, the gales that struck Oregon over the weekend have turned small fires into...

Wildfires have burned in six states on the west coast. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Char Miller, Director of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College about the the fires and climate change.