The Ecotopia Ativa Association is promoting a round table on Friday at the Casa do Povo in Santa Catarina da Fonte do Bispo, in the municipality of Tavira, to discuss the issue of rural fires.

The death toll from two weeks of record blazes rose to 16 when a firefighter, who had been burned in a forest fire in central Portugal last week, died of his injuries late Wednesday night.

Oct. 17, 2024 — A major new study reveals that carbon dioxide emissions from forest fires have surged by 60 percent globally since 2001, and almost tripled in some of the most climate-sensitive ...

Sedgwick County Fire Marshal Brad Crisp is asking people to avoid the area of 215th St. West and K-96 where a large grass fire. Fifteen units representing five agencies, including the Wichita ...

(Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) OAKLAND — Amid weather conditions that recalled a devastating fire decades ago, firefighters on Friday managed to beat back a five-alarm blaze in the Oakland ...

Nearly half a million acres have burned in Idaho as fires engulf national forestland across the state. As of Saturday, more than a dozen wildfires were blazing across the mountain West state ...

Arson investigations are underway into three fires in four days, Petaluma police and firefighters said Saturday. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | Map: Mountain Fire evacuations continue ...

When a substance takes fire in the atmosphere without being exposed to intense or high heat, the action is called " spontaneous combustion." Phosphorus is the only common substance which is ...

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 ...

This trend shifts the focus of forest fire emissions from tropical forests, where fires set to make room for farmland have long contributed carbon to the atmosphere. Conservation policies have ...

Carbon emissions from forest fires increased more than 60 percent globally over the past two decades, according to a new study. By Austyn Gaffney Forests not only serve as refuges from city life ...

Carbon dioxide emissions from forest fires have increased by 60 percent globally in the past two decades, according to a study published in the journal Science on Thursday. Northernmost boreal ...