For thousands of years, fire has been and remains the main enemy of the forest. Devastating colossal areas on all continents except Antarctica, forest fires leave behind a lifeless black trail. The ...

Scientists in Scotland have developed a new method to understand the heat and intensity of fires that burned out millions of ...

The Great Chicago Fire? Right date, wrong event. I am referring to the Peshtigo Fire, a forest fire that destroyed 1.2 million acres and more than a dozen towns in Wisconsin. A mass grave in the ...

To Mitigate Impact of Wildfires on Communities' Water, Report Fills Gaps in Guidance to Public Drinking Water System Staff Jan. 13, 2025 — Wildfires increasingly threaten public drinking water ...

Massive forest fires, allegedly started by poachers four days ago, continue to rage in Suphan Buri, with approximately 1,000 rai of forest already damaged, officials have reported. Volunteers, park ...

There is a direct line from the destruction of the boreal forest and the raging wildfires in California. The boreal forest system has, for over a decade, seen some of the planet’s worst wildfires, ...

Wildfires in California replicate the massive fire storms in the boreal forest in Canada and Siberia, the lungs of the earth. Our addiction to fossil fuel has ignited an age of fire. Almost two ...

Fire agencies say the suppressants — most often used to fight forest fires — are an invaluable tool. But what is in them and are they safe? The fires are burning quickly through canyons and ...

Munich Re MUV20.11%increase; green up pointing triangle can’t yet put a figure on the burden it will face as a result of the wildfires in California. “We have to expect that it will be a major ...

A PAPER on “Forest Fires and Weather”(Sci. Papers Inst. Phys. Chem. Res., Tokyo, vol. 18), by T. Terada and T. Utigasaki, states that the annual loss due to forest fires in Japan is second in ...