A new study suggests that increased maple populations may leave forests in western North Carolina more vulnerable to extreme ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - About 9,500 forest fires, including one on the outskirts of Athens, consumed nearly 44,500 hectares of ...

New York could see more frequent and destructive blazes, but the state doesn’t have enough forest rangers and firefighters to ...

"There's just a lot more fire in these northern forests than there used to be. Climate change allows severe fires to affect forests that once tolerated milder fires." Studies like this could help ...

While many associate wildfire season with the western states, fire weather is becoming more common in the Northeast, according to nonprofit Climate Central. The group said Monday that parts of ...

The authors said the report could help guide policy decisions as the federal government grapples with where to target ...

Nov. 6, 2024 — When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, lava incinerated anything living for miles around. As an experiment, scientists dropped gophers onto parts of the scorched mountain for only ...

Australia's forest ecosystems, renowned for their extraordinary diversity of rare plants and animals, also play a vital role ...

The threat comes from the West's unprecedented breed of megafires which, fueled by climate change ... the Fremont-Winema National Forest during the Barry Point Fire in 2012, Kittler said.

The cause of climate change is simple: it’s fire. To end global warming, we need to stop burning things. Guests: Tim Stezik of Toronto Fire Services, Lytton fire survivor and author Meghan ...