David Acuña, battalion chief for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, discusses the increase in ...

Wildfires are often thought to be a problem for Western North America, but climate change and other factors are making fires nastier in the East, especially this year.

Across the world, air pollution is associated with more early deaths than any other environmental exposure, raising risks of ...

Burning time for North American wildfires is going into overtime. Flames are lasting later into the night and starting ...

Fire ecologists have made a surprisingly unintuitive discovery after analyzing 30 years of wildfire data, especially as the ...

At night, temperatures are often cooler and the air is wetter, which gives wildland firefighters a long window to make up ...

Climate change poses a major geopolitical and economic threat, reshaping coastlines, opening the Arctic, driving migration, ...

Wildfires raging this week in southern Georgia and northern Florida were fueled by a combination of hot and windy conditions, severe drought and dried-out vegetation from past hurricanes all feeding t ...

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 ...

India, May 26 -- Researchers studying Early Permian coal deposits in the southern North China Basin have uncovered strong ...

Wales' new government must do more to prepare the country for deadly heatwaves, droughts and flooding, according to the UK's ...