As well as trees and vegetation going up in flames during wildfires, ‘burning gas stations, homes and cars also put a toxic soup into the air’.

How can our societies adapt to this growing risk? Answer by Melissa Sterry, design scientist specialising in urban resilience ...

Local health officials, firefighters and community leaders weigh in on the growing concern over wildfire season.

A new wildfire was reported 8:38 p.m. Aug. 9 in Tehama County, California. Bear Fire has been burning on federal land managed by the United States Forest Service for 10 hours. At this time, the ...

The lightning-caused Arizona wildfire is not going away anytime soon, and its place in history is cemented by way of over 140,000 acres burned.

A new wildfire was reported today at 10:09 a.m. in Fresno County, California. Selden Fire has been burning on federal land managed by the United States Forest Service. At this time, there is no ...

The Gifford Fire in California, which started Aug. 1, has burned 114,621 acres of land. It has been 21% contained as of ...

When Jeffrey Herf first learned that America’s largest teachers’ union plans to promote a version of history that erases Jews ...

Summer 2025 has already been a scorcher, with much of the eastern half of the nation enduring weeks of high heat and tropical humidity, with more expected in the coming weeks. For example, the state ...

On August 10, 1776, a committee of Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson suggested the United States adopt "E ...

When it comes to danger in the natural world, size does not matter. Some of the most dangerous and deadly creatures are tiny, capable of delivering fatal blows despite having bodies smaller than a ...

Folks in the Trump administration aren’t dismantling environmental research efforts because they’re expecting rosy results.