As climate change promotes fire-favorable weather, climate-driven wildfires in extratropical forests have overtaken tropical forests as the leading source of global fire emissions, researchers report.

After years of questionable policies, climate change and growing populations, wildfires have gotten worse in the western U.S., and around the world. That’s driven a push to use tools like thinning and ...

A new dataset and analysis released by World Resources Institute finds global tropical forest loss jumped to a record high in 2024, with 6.7 million hectares (16.6 million acres) worldwide. In total, ...

On Wednesday April 19, 2023, a campfire may have sparked a wildfire in a pine forest in the core of the 160,000-acre Croatan National Forest, about 20 miles southwest of New Bern. Known as the Great ...

The Green Fire has grown to over 11,000 acres and is 5% contained near Montgomery Creek, California. Extreme heat and dry conditions are fueling the fire's spread, with a heat advisory in effect.

Victoria Porter spent two days last year fighting a small forest fire that sprang up from a hunter’s campsite in the Montana wilderness. Porter, 28, helped dig a fire break to prevent the blaze from ...

The Green Fire in Shasta-Trinity National Forest has grown since Wednesday, but containment has increased, too. Evacuation orders and warnings remain in effect for certain areas, with designated ...

A union official said many employees held dual jobs, including fighting fires. When unemployed marine biologist Lanny Flaherty poked his head into the ranger's station at the Wallowa Whitman National ...