Two months after the anniversary of the devastating Southern California firestorms, several legislators at the state Capitol ...

Total acres burned fell in 2025, but the Eaton and Palisades fires were hugely destructive and raise questions about the future of California's Wildfire Fund, one expert says.

As the climate warms, wildfire smoke could become far deadlier in the United States, with projections estimating up to 64,000 ...

Wildfires are among the most economically costly natural disasters and are becoming more severe and frequent due to global ...

As of late morning on Friday, March 6 this is the status of the Dare County wildfire from the NC Forest Service.

Lightning-sparked fires can be a big deal: The Canadian wildfires of 2023 generated nearly 500 million metric tons of carbon emissions, and lightning-started fires burned 93% of the area affected.

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

Chronic exposure to pollution from wildfires has been linked to tens of thousands of deaths annually in the United States, according to a new study. The paper, published Wednesday in the journal ...

Short-term surges in air pollution in New Jersey from the 2023 Canadian wildfires were associated with a higher stroke rate and more serious strokes, according to a preliminary study to be presented ...