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Nasa to test fire in space by burning unmanned orbiting craft
Mar 16, 2016 (AFP)
NASA said it will test the effects of a large fire in space by setting off a blaze inside an orbiting unmanned space craft. NASA has set off tiny controlled fir...
Wildland fire emissions worse in polluted areas
Mar 14, 2016 (SPX)
When plant matter burns, it releases a complex mixture of gases and aerosols into the atmosphere. In forests subject to air pollution, these emissions may be mo...
Neanderthals may have used manganese dioxide for fire
Mar 01, 2016 (UPI)
Until now, researchers assumed high concentrations of the black ore known as manganese dioxide at Neanderthal sites was explained by its use as a coloring agent...
Australia bushfires raze ancient World Heritage-listed forests
Jan 30, 2016 (AFP)
World Heritage-listed forests whose origins pre-date the age of the dinosaurs are being destroyed by raging Australian bushfires, with conservationists increasi...
Climate change fuels bushfire risk as Australia heats up
Jan 20, 2016 (AFP)
"A sunburnt country... with a pitiless blue sky", so the famous poem goes, but where once Australia could rely on "steady, soaking rain", a trend of hotter and ...
Fires did not destroy (as fast as we thought)
Jan 19, 2016 (SPX)
Today, people are major agents of landscape change and catalysts for erosion, but what did people do to the environment before the industrial revolution -- befo...
Firefighters contain deadly Australian bushfire
Jan 11, 2016 (AFP)
Cooler temperatures and easing winds Monday helped firefighters contain a bushfire that killed two people and razed 143 properties, with clean-up efforts gettin...
Losses mount from west Australian bushfire
Jan 09, 2016 (AFP)
The number of homes lost in a bushfire in Western Australia rose on Saturday to 121, as officials admitted the emergency was not yet over with three people stil...
China bus arson suspect threatened violence: media
Jan 06, 2016 (AFP)
A man suspected of setting a public bus on fire in northern China, burning 17 people to death, had told friends he planned violence, reports said Wednesday, cit...
Suspect held after China bus fire kills 17: media
Jan 05, 2016 (AFP)
Police in China have captured a man suspected of starting a fire on a public bus that killed 17 people and injured 32 on Tuesday, state media said. Authorities ...
Week-long Spanish wildfires extinguished as rain comes to rescue
Dec 29, 2015 (AFP)
After a week-long battle against more than 200 wildfires that ravaged northern Spain, local authorities and rescue services announced Tuesday that long-awaited ...
Firefighters battle over 130 wildfires in northern Spain
Dec 28, 2015 (AFP)
Amid unseasonably warm weather, firefighters battled over 130 wind-fuelled wildfires in northern Spain on Monday which officials suspect were deliberately set. ...
Christmas wildfire claims more than 100 homes in Australia
Dec 26, 2015 (AFP)
A bushfire which flared on Christmas Day has destroyed more than 100 homes in southern Australia, officials said Saturday, as they warned the losses could have ...
Helicopter crashes fighting wildfire in Spain, pilot dead
Dec 23, 2015 (AFP)
A helicopter battling a fire in northern Spain crashed on Wednesday, killing the pilot, emergency services said. The helicopter crashed and burst into flames in...
Carbon emissions from Indonesian peat fires vary greatly
Dec 22, 2015 (SPX)
Carbon emissions caused by burning tropical peatlands in Indonesia vary considerably depending on if the fires are initial or recurrent, according to new resear...
Indonesia punishes firms over deadly forest fires
Dec 22, 2015 (AFP)
Indonesia is punishing more than 20 companies in an unprecedented move for starting deadly forest fires that killed 19 people, a government official said Tuesda...
Firefighters battle a hundred wildfires in Spain
Dec 20, 2015 (AFP)
Spanish firefighters were battling around 100 wildfires in the northwestern Asturias region on Sunday, where flames fed by strong winds forced the closure of ro...
Ceramic firefighting foam becomes stronger when temperature increases
Dec 16, 2015 (SPX)
A team of chemists from ITMO University, in collaboration with research company SOPOT, has developed a novel type of firefighting foam based on inorganic silica...
Fossils reveal ancient shrublands in fiery landscape
Dec 16, 2015 (SPX)
New fossil evidence shows that Australia's fire-prone shrubland open vegetation originated at least 70 million years ago - 40-50 million years earlier than prev...
Fires cost Indonesia $16 bn, twice the tsunami bill: World Bank
Dec 15, 2015 (AFP)
Indonesia's economy took a $16-billion hit this year from forest fires that cloaked Southeast Asia in haze, more than double the sum spent on rebuilding Aceh af...
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