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Major Media Coverage of Earth Lab Research
2025
In the Ashes. (2025). Cornwall. Science
Climate Solutions Week: Colorado neighborhood hardens homes against wildfire risk. (2025). Thakore. NPR Morning Edition.
LA fires: Why fast-moving wildfires and those started by human activities are more destructive and harder to contain (2025). Iglesias. The Conversation.
2024
Wildfires in the West Aren’t Just Getting Bigger. They’re Faster, Too. (2024). Zhong. New York Times.
Where Americans Have Been Moving Into Disaster-Prone Areas. (2024). Rojanasakul & Popovich. New York Times.
Fueled by climate change, extreme wildfires have doubled in 20 years. (2024). Raza. The Washington Post
2023
Earth on verge of five catastrophic climate tipping points, scientists warn. (2023). Niranjan. The Guardian.
Our wildfire problem is growing beyond our ability to tame it. (2023). Balch. Washington Post
Wildfires were once slowed by night and winter. Not anymore. (2023). Balch. Washington Post
2022
Eyes on Earth Episode 83 – ECOSTRESS and Burn Severity (2022). Lawson. USGS.
How extreme climate conditions fueled unprecedented Colorado fire (2022). Samenow, Feuerstein, Bolinger. Washington Post.
2021
More Than Half Of U.S. Buildings Are In Places Prone To Disaster, Study Finds (2021). Hersher. NPR.
The Climate Connections of a Record Fire Year in the U.S. West (2021). Buis. NASA
2020
Heat is turbocharging fires, drought and tropical storms this summer (2020). Fears, Siddiqui, Kaplan, and Eilperin. Washington Post.
Human-caused ignitions spark California’s worst wildfires but get little state focus (2020) Boxall. Los Angeles Times.
2019
Behind Most Wildfires, a Person and a Spark: ‘We Bring Fire With Us' (2019). Arango. New York Times.
Invasive Grasses May Worsen Wildfires, Study Suggests (2019). Pierre-Louis. New York Times.
Trump’s Executive Order Will Aggressively Cut More Forest Trees (2019). Fears and Eilperin. Washington Post.
2018
As Carr Fire Kills 2 in California, Firefighters Reflect on a Job Now ‘Twice as Violent’ (2018). Bransford, Medina, Del Real. New York Times.
How Air in the Pacific Northwest Became Dirtier Than Beijing’s (2018). Carlton & Malas. Wall Street Journal.
The quest to predict -- and stop -- the spread of wildfires (2018). Baraniuk. BBC.
2017
Humans Start Most Wildfires (2017). Montañez and Fischetti. Scientific American.
Cause of most US wildfires traced to people, CU-based study finds (2017). Associated Press. Washington Post.