We’re very careful about what our kids eat, but what about the air they breathe?

That afternoon we stood on her roof watching a cloud of smoke from a distant fire, grow closer, and the firefighters’ helicopters and planes began to fly right over her house, to refill with water from Kokkina Limonaki, writes Cate Whittemore. She called a neighbour who lived in the direction of the smoke, to offer her refuge.

Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources says dozens of forest fires remain out of control, with the most pressing in the province's northeast now measuring more than 82 square kilometres.

Last summer in B.C., 190 homes and nearly 250 other buildings were completely destroyed by wildfires in both the Thompson-Nicola Regional District and the Cariboo Regional District. To reduce losses like this in the future, there are things people can do to make their homes safer if a wildfire strikes.

With warm weather, a high snowpack and floodwaters rising throughout the province, it may seem like B.C. is set to repeat last year’s weather patterns, which led to a catastrophic summer of fires.

A study shows half of Alberta's boreal forest could disappear in just over 80 years due to wildfires and climate change.

A regional government in British Columbia's southern Interior is mulling more than 70 recommendations to improve its response to wildfires.

Apparently lightning can strike the same place twice after all.

When wildfire smoke blankets a province, as it did in B.C. for weeks this summer, there are marked increases in asthma attacks and respiratory infections, as well as smaller increases for things like heart attacks and cardiac arrests, a B.C. scientist says.

Former Liberal cabinet minister George Abbott and Maureen Chapman, Hereditary Chief of the Sq'ewá:lxw (Skawahlook) First Nation, will review B.C.'s unprecedented 2017 fire season. Appointing Chapman to co-chair a major provincial review sends a remarkable and noteworthy message about the relationship between the provincial government and Indigenous peoples.

When it comes to preventing forest fires, responsibility for the work is a complicated dance between the province and small, civic governments.

The Province of British Columbia apparently knew what to do to lessen the intensity of wildfires by 2017. The reports they'd commissioned in 2003 after the catastrophic Kelowna wildfires were explicit. Remove small trees and other burnable debris and do controlled burns.

California firefighters battled fast-growing forest fires threatening giant sequoias and small communities in the Sierra Nevada on Monday, September 27, 2021, and worked to fully surround a suspected arson wildfire that destroyed homes last week.