T he North Fork Fire in McDowell County grew in size Jan. 31 before receiving half an inch of rain overnight. The fire is now ...

The North Fork Fire in McDowell County is now at 350 acres, the U.S. Forest Service announced in an early afternoon news ...

The planet’s largest tropical rainforest is currently being ... but farmers and loggers also purposefully set fire to the rainforest in order to clean land for industrial and agricultural ...

Before noon on Jan. 28, slight smolders of smoke rose from what was left of the trees, bushes and other organic debris Tropical ... to a fire at the site in the early morning hours of Jan. 15.

The fire is located at a Tropical Storm Helene debris collection site off Reems ... which is being investigated as a possible ...

and human-caused fire (reviewed in Geist & Lambin 2002). Over half the tropical moist forest cover worldwide has been cleared (Asner et al. 2009) and much of the remaining forest is affected by ...

Degraded forest land in the Brazilian Amazon. Carbon uptake and storage in tropical primary and secondary forests varies ... are less resistant to fire and drought, and generally die younger. Previous ...

The forest loss is also a ... of the world’s original old-growth tropical rainforests, and degraded another 30 per cent, leaving them more vulnerable to fire and future destruction, according ...

This 58,070-hectare protected area in northeastern Peru hosts rare white-sand forests and wildlife in Amazonia, the largest tropical forest region in the world. Characterized by nutrient-poor ...

The North Fork fire is burning in areas the sustained heavy damage from Tropical Storm Helene near ... North Fork of the Catawba River in the U.S. Forest Service Grandfather Ranger District ...

Degraded forest land in the Brazilian Amazon. Carbon uptake and storage in tropical primary and secondary ... are less resistant to fire and drought, and generally die younger.