Modern forests burn less, but fuel buildup increases wildfire risk, making fires more intense and dangerous for forests and ...

"For the majority of the province, in the boreal forest, conditions are looking really good for normal [or] near-normal ...

Wildfires are already changing as a result of climate change but we don’t know what will happen as our planet gets even warmer. The answer could be hidden underground ...

The vast majority of western dry forests are at risk of large, high-intensity fire because of the effects of poor forest management over the past century. The primary factors that lead to current ...

If current trends continue, there will be devastating long-term consequences on people ... In some tropical and subtropical regions, forest fires are mostly intentionally set for land-use change, ...

Wildfire experts and politicians must focus on saving lives and neighborhoods from future fires, and rebuild in a fire-safe ...

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 ...

The Hughes fire, burning near Castaic Lake north of Santa Clarita, exploded to more than 10,000 acres of mostly brush in just a few hours. More than 50,000 people were under evacuation orders and ...

In 1960, the U.S. Forest Service started keeping detailed records of damade caused by wildfires. During the first 40 years of record keeping, between 1960 and 1999, wildfires destroyed nearly 141 ...

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 ...

As per the Forest department statistics, Odisha recorded 22,868 forest fire points last year, the lowest in last three years, and had responded to 99.86 per cent of them. The state had recorded ...