The vast Amazon rainforest bore the brunt of the devastation, accounting for approximately 17.9 million hectares of the total ...

The US Forest Service is fighting to keep in place a plan to raze the equivalent of 500 Central Parks in California’s forests ...

The Forest Service manages just shy of 200 million acres of land and is the nation’s largest fire fighting agency. Officials ...

California has just experienced one of its worst wildfire seasons in years, despite the Golden State's ample resources to ...

The Mafia is “weaponizing” fire in the region for control and financial gain, said UC Berkeley researcher Lauren Pearson. She ...

The class also includes scholars focused on media studies, political science religious studies and science, technology and society. The course focuses on California wildfires so students can think ...

Extreme weather conditions will be more common, according to the study, adding fresh urgency to a burgeoning group of climate ...

Climate change is an intensifier — a force that amplifies and worsens existing conditions. It increases the probability that extreme conditions will compound and become unprecedented.

“Wildfire is natural in many temperate forests, yet human-caused climate change is intensifying the heat that drives fire, tripling burned area in California mountain forests above natural ...