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Yellow sky with smoke over tundra landscape

Feature

Increasing wildfires in southwestern Alaska could increase global mercury pollution

sun rising over a landscape of brown grass and sparse trees

In The News

Late July’s oppressive heat forecast isn’t normal

Read on USA Today

Mentions Max Holmes

The ignition helicopter comes in for a landing during the April 2025 NASA FireSense-led research campaign at Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia.

Perspective

We have to study fire up close in order to model and predict it

the woodwell climate campus building stands in a field of grass with a blue sky behind it

Update

Woodwell Climate Board of Directors elect new Chair, three new members

Burned spruce trees are silhouetted against a grey sky

In The News

For 1st time, fires are biggest threat to forests’ climate-fighting superpower

Read on The New York Times

Mentions Richard A. Birdsey

Max Holmes sits next to Gina McCarthy, who is speaking into a microphone to a seated audience

Video

Woodwell Climate Conversations: Turning the Tide (opens in a new tab)

Mentions Max Holmes

a man crouches on a dock by the water, using a dropper to get a small amount of yellow liquid out of a bottle.

In The News

Notes from an ecologist: Factoring in rivers and streams when studying bay health

Read on The Falmouth Enterprise

In The News

Cultural burning: The important role of traditional practices in the modern Arctic

Read on Wildfire Magazine

Mentions Edward Alexander