Significant losses were in remote forests, far from human activities. That isolation suggests that fires are increasing primarily because of climate change, said Calum Cunningham, a fire geographer at ...

State agencies, private landowners and tribes can preempt wildfires by conducting controlled burns. But these controlled ...

The Trump administration says moving the Forest Service headquarters to Utah and shutting down 31 research stations will ...

Wildfires have become a defining crisis of the modern West, obliterating forests, homes, and communities while choking skies with smoke that travels thousands of miles. You've probably heard the ...

Opponents of the move say the Trump administration’s push to rescind the Roadless Rule is a giveaway to the timber industry ...

New research finds that climate-driven shifts in wildfire seasons in North America are different depending on the ecosystem.

New Jersey’s wildfire season, which runs from mid-March to mid-May, occurs in some of the most fire-prone forests in the country, similar to the high-risk areas of California and Oregon’s chaparral ...

After almost 60 years, scientists have been able to prove an influential theory that wet eucalypt forest regrowth is more ...

More than 45,000 hectares—an area almost twice the size of the city of Buenos Aires—have already been consumed by fire in Northern Patagonia this summer, with large blazes in the Neuquén, Río Negro, ...

In 2023 and 2024, the hottest years on record, more than 78 million acres of forests burned around the world. The fires sent veils of smoke and several billion tons of carbon dioxide into the ...