Fire has always shaped the landscape in California. But today it burns hotter, more frequently, and spreads farther than ever before—a shift driven by human development, climate change, and the ...

Roughly a million years ago, the climate shifted drastically, and Engaji Nanyori went from a relatively hospitable habitat to a hyper-arid shrubland. Somehow, H. erectus was able to adjust to this ...

What many may not know about the fires that occur near Los Angeles is that it’s located in the middle of a chaparral shrubland, a type of ecosystem that grows up around rocky Mediterranean-type ...

“Native shrublands are being burned too frequently because of human-ignited wildfires,” it added. “Prescribed fire does not fulfill any identified ecological need in chaparral or coastal ...

In 1900, a former schoolteacher named Carrie Nation walked into a bar in Kiowa, Kansas, proclaimed, “Men, I have come to save you from a drunkard’s fate,” and proceeded to hurl bricks and ...

A home is consumed by flames from the Palisades fire, which ignited Jan. 7 amid hurricane-force winds, with gusts of up to 100 mph recorded in some areas. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) ...

shrublands, croplands, temperate forests and boreal forests. Called DIST-ALERT, the new product can be visualized on the Global Forest Watch platform of the World Resource Institute (WRI).