Climate change may have role in wildfire trend. Rising temperatures and earlier snowpack melt-offs appear to have sparked an increase in the number of forest wildfires across the western United States. [News Source]

Higher temperatures cited for increase in wildfires. New research suggests that higher regional temperatures have contributed to an increase in large and costly wildfires that have hit the Western U.S. in recent years. [News Source]

Warming climate fuels fires in Rockies. Are fiercer wildfires driven by climate change or poor forest management? Scientists and the media have been debating this burning question for decades. Now a large study of recent western US forest fires shows that, for the Rockies at least, climate is to blame. [News Source]

Climate change blamed for western US wildfires. Here's another thing to blame on climate change -- wildfires, those forest and grass fires that have threatened communities across the U.S. West. [News Source]

Global warming fueling wildfires, study says. Major forest fires in the U.S. West are both more numerous and more devastating than they were a generation ago in the region. The culprit, according to a new report, is warmer temperatures. [News Source]

Wildfires rising with mercury, scientists say. Two telltale signs of global warming -- higher temperatures and earlier spring snowmelt -- are being implicated in the dramatic surge in large wildfires across Oregon and the western United States in the past two decades. [News Source]

Global warming intensifying wildfires? Utah and other western states are in the throes of more frequent, longer-burning and more intense wildfires caused by global warming. [News Source]

Plan will not cut greenhouse gases. The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) said a string of government plans to slow global warming would have only a marginal effect. [News Source]

Increasing number of wildfires is caused by global warming, study finds. Global warming may be largely to blame for the increasingly destructive wildfires in the Western United States in the last two decades, new research suggests. [News Source]

Study says global warming helps extend wildfire seasons. The number and size of large forest fires in the West have grown "suddenly and dramatically" in the past two decades in part because of global warming, a study released Thursday says. [News Source]

Region’s landscape becomes laboratory. Many scientists prefer the term climate change rather than global warming. But whatever it’s called, it is being widely studied in Missouri and Kansas. [News Source]