FIRESTORM - AFRICA DAILY

Mar 27, 2019 (AFP)

Hundreds of firefighters and soldiers backed by seven helicopters and five water-dropping planes were fighting the blaze which broke out on Monday near the vill...

The day the world burned

Mar 14, 2019 (SPX)

"It's much more extreme than I ever thought when I started this work," Kennett noted. "The more work that has been done, the more extreme it seems." He's talkin...

Bushfires rage after Australia's hottest summer on record

Mar 04, 2019 (AFP)

A days-long heatwave sent temperatures soaring towards 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) over the weekend, with bushfires raging across Victoria state...

Muirburns in Wales Dot the Countryside

Mar 04, 2019 (SPX)

The Government allows fires (by permit) on the moorlands before an all-burn ban which begins around mid-April. This is part of moorland management much like oth...

Tracking firefighters in burning buildings

Mar 04, 2019 (SPX)

The low-cost sensor is about the size of a button-cell watch battery and can easily be incorporated into the sole of a boot or under the arm of a jacket - where...

Forest fire rages on Mount Kenya, Africa's second highest peak

Mar 01, 2019 (AFP)

Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), the government force in charge of national parks, said the fire began last Saturday, and estimated that more than 80,000 hectares ...

Scientists simulate forest and fire dynamics to understand area burn of future wildfires

Feb 27, 2019 (SPX)

However, most previous studies have looked at the relationship between climate change and area burned by wildfire as a result of climatic influences on wildfire...

Wildfires could get smaller in the future, new models predict

Feb 26, 2019 (UPI)

Climate change effects vegetation and wildfire patterns, and changing wildfire behavior influences vegetation and climate. To better understand the relationship...

Fierce winds fan forest fires in Corsica

Feb 24, 2019 (AFP)

One of the biggest blazes began overnight in Calenzana, a village near the northern coastal city of Calvi, burning nearly 1,300 hectares (3,200 acres) by Sunday...

Forest fires as an opportunity for ecosystem recovery

Feb 20, 2019 (SPX)

It is estimated that globally there are more than two million hectares of land in need of restoration. The fires that occurred in those places provided the peop...

Tasmania fires may 'wipe out' ancient species

Feb 15, 2019 (AFP)

As authorities downgraded emergency warnings Friday, with wetter weather -- and even some snow -- bringing respite from more than a month of rolling fires, scie...

Greece too reliant on fire planes: experts

Feb 07, 2019 (AFP)

The committee of forestry and safety engineering experts from some of Greece's leading universities was ordered formed by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after th...

Forest soil takes decades to recover from wildfire, logging

Jan 23, 2019 (UPI)

Researchers at the Australian National University found both fire and logging can have surprisingly long-lasting effects on the health of forest soil. "We thoug...

Trump threatens to axe emergency fire aid for California

Jan 09, 2019 (AFP)

"Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forrest fires that, with proper Forrest Management, would never happen," Trump tweeted, initially m...

Atmospheric scientists find causes of firenado in deadly Carr Fire

Dec 07, 2018 (SPX)

Atmospheric scientist Neil Lareau at the University of Nevada, Reno has authored a paper in the scientific journal Geophysical Research Letters documenting the ...

Wildfire ash can bind to, trap mercury

Dec 05, 2018 (UPI)

"Little is known about the origins, concentration, reactivity, and bioavailability of Hg in residual ash materials in post-fire landscapes," researchers wrote i...

NASA Terra Satellite Outlines Burn Scar from California's Camp Fire

Nov 28, 2018 (SPX)

This helped to dampen the 153,336 acre fire and allowed firefighters to contain the area burning completely (100% containment at present.) This does not mean th...

Thousands evacuated as Australian bushfires rage

Nov 28, 2018 (AFP)

Some 8,000 people were told to leave the town of Gracemere, south of the central coast area of Rockhampton, as a fast-moving blaze threatened homes. The Bureau ...

NASA mobilizes to aid California fires response

Nov 26, 2018 (JPL)

Spearheaded by NASA's Disasters Program in the Earth Science Division, the team produces a variety of data products largely derived from satellite observations,...

California's deadliest wildfire finally tamed

Nov 26, 2018 (AFP)

The so-called Camp Fire, which broke out on November 8, is so far known to have killed 85 people. The Butte County Sheriff's department said that they had mista...