In 2019 and again in 2021, Penn State researchers in the Department of Geography walked a series of 1,000 square foot plots ...

Wildfires have increased in frequency and severity over the past few decades. More fires are burning at the wildland-urban ...

Crews conducted “burnout operations” to strengthen control lines and prevent fires from jumping over control lines to other areas. Wet conditions overnight and into Saturday have helped but are not ...

In the summer of 2021, the Caldor Fire roared over the Sierra Nevada crest and into South Lake Tahoe. Thankfully, proactive forest treatments including strategic thinning of dense trees, controlled ...

Nearly 1,000 acres of wooded land in Cumberland County has burned since two fires broke out in Michaux State Forest within an 18-hour period, according to an update provided by the Pennsylvania ...

Humans have altered the forests of western North America markedly over the past several centuries. We’ve suppressed fire, harvested much of the old-growth trees, and built homes and communities within ...

Forest fires have always been a natural part of many ecosystems, helping to clear old vegetation and spark new growth. But in recent years, fires have become more frequent, more intense, and far less ...

In the aftermath of Australia’s “Black Summer” bushfires of 2019–20, few policy questions have proved as persistent as how, exactly, to live with fire on a warming continent. Governments promise ...