GREEN COUNTRY, Okla. — People in several areas were encouraged to evacuate due to the spread of wildfires. Emergency officials urged people in Osage and Payne counties to evacuate after high ...

Oct. 9, 2024 — Civil and environmental engineering researchers conducted unique live fire experiments to study the kinematics of firebrands, burning embers cast off from wildfires that cause ...

The San Carlos Apache Tribe has declared a state of emergency as a wildfire continues to burn over two thousand acres in eastern Arizona. The Arizona Humane Society is sending a disaster team to ...

Conditions are so ripe for fires to spread out of control that today the National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning in certain areas of the United States, including right up to the ...

Chemicals released from wildfires may latch on to our DNA and increase our risk of cancer, new research warns. These chemicals appear to evade our body's built-in DNA repair mechanisms ...

This article was originally featured in The Conversation. Wildfires are becoming increasingly destructive across the U.S., as the country is seeing in 2024. Firefighters were battling large blazes ...

As of Saturday, more than a dozen wildfires were blazing across the mountain West state, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Outside the state capital Boise, several fires in the ...

Some states, including California, outlawed controlled burns, and in 1905, the U.S. government made fighting wildfires at all cost its policy. The benefits of controlled burns are well established ...

Wildfires aren’t going away, but our ability to detect and track them — and maybe catch them early enough to prevent serious damage — is getting better. OroraTech is taking a space-based ...

“WYOMING. Multiple wildfires are ongoing near Wheatland, where it’s reported that there is approximately 2.34 billion metric tons of rare earth minerals,” reads on-screen text in the ...

causing humidity levels to drop and raising the risk of wildfires. Forecasters have issued red flag warnings for fire danger until Saturday from the central coast through the San Francisco Bay ...

Forecasters predict temperatures to be 5.5-11C (10-20F) above normal, potentially posing a risk to human health and the environment from resulting wildfires. Linking climate change with specific ...