In 2004, an international team of researchers began setting fire to three 50-hectare plots of Amazon forest in Mato Grosso, ...

As California's population boomed—from 10 million in 1950 to over 40 million today—the number of people living in fire-prone ...

Diminishing periods of snow cover in northern forests, shortened by climate change, are poised to disrupt a delicate balance ...

The Amazon has suffered its most destructive fire season in more than two decades, releasing a staggering 791 million tons of carbon dioxide—on par with Germany’s annual emissions. Scientists found ...

After years of questionable policies, climate change and growing populations, wildfires have gotten worse in the western U.S., and around the world. That’s driven a push to use tools like thinning and ...

State and federal fire officials have unveiled a new plan to boost wildfire prevention, even as California funding sources ...

Certain landscapes, including vineyards, can help to slow or even partly stop runaway forest fires. “It’s not only that it is beautiful,” said Ramón Roqueta, the owner of Celler Abadal, walking across ...

Humans have altered the forests of western North America markedly over the past several centuries. We’ve suppressed fire, harvested much of the old-growth trees, and built homes and communities within ...

Sierra hotshot crew member lighting a test burn in Inyo National Forest, approximately one mile east of Mammoth Lakes, CA. on October 3, 2023. (USDA Forest Service photo by Lisa Cox) Every dollar ...

Nearly three years since the Lookout Fire tore through the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest near Blue River Reservoir in ...

A rapidly spreading blaze in one of Himachal Pradesh's most scenic hill towns forced an urgent response from firefighters and the armed forces before it could turn into a much bigger disaster.