F rom ducks and cranes to giant garter snakes and salmon, flooded rice fields in California’s Central Valley offer important — often vital — habitat to many wildlife species. Yet ...

To reduce the growing risk of intense wildfires, California is cutting and burning the areas that fuel them – but these ...

The numbers tell a story of brutal transformation: Over the past eight years, California’s wildfires have burned about three-quarters of the area they did over the previous three decades.