Colorado used to treat wildfires like summer storms – brief, brutal, and mostly confined to a warm window. That storyline shattered when megafires erupted deep into October and, shockingly, in late December, carving a new calendar that looks less like a season and more like a year. Scientists now talk about fuel aridity, vapor pressure ...
California has always swung between feast and famine, but lately the swings feel sharper, faster, and a little unnerving. Wet winters drape mountains in snow, then a few scorching seasons erase the cushion as if someone yanked the safety net. Scientists warn that warming temperatures amplify this whiplash, nudging the state toward longer, more intense ...
On a late-summer morning, the blackened hills north of Granby look quiet, but the landscape isn’t still. Needles of green push through ash, mushrooms thread the soil, and elk tracks stitch the edges of the burn. The mystery is whether this fragile momentum can outrun heat, drought, and the next wind-driven fire. Colorado’s future hinges ...
Maria Faith Saligumba
Maria Faith Saligumba
