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 ...

When managed with frequent fire, the pineland ecosystems of the Florida Everglades support a pine-dominated overstory and species-rich understory of rare, fire-dependent plants. Scientists from the ...

The number of wildfires burning in the Western United States each year dropped roughly 28% over the past three decades, even as annual burned area and damage from wildfires have soared. A decline in ...

The famously rainy state is facing longer, hotter and drier fire seasons, raising the risk of a mammoth fire that will be nearly impossible to fight. All the state can do is prepare. The famously ...

Scientists from the Yale School of the Environment discovered that forests in the Everglades bounce back quickly after fires, often surpassing their previous levels of productivity. The research ...

Beneath the muddy floor of a lagoon on Kangaroo Island, scientists uncovered a 7,000-year record of wildfire history, offering a sharper view of what worsening fire seasons could mean for one of ...