An analysis of 500 watersheds found levels of organic carbon, phosphorus, and other pollutants up to 103 times higher after a ...

Earlier in 2025, wildfires in southern California killed 30 people, destroyed more than 18,000 homes and burned more than ...

Wildfires are becoming more intense and dangerous, but a new Stanford-led study offers hope: prescribed burns—intentionally ...

The Wolf Fire was reported in Riverside County near Banning, California, around 85 miles east of Los Angeles, on Sunday, June 29, at 3:09 p.m. local time, according to Cal Fire. The fire has consumed ...

Wildfires pollute waterways and could affect their ability to sequester carbon, recent University of British Columbia ...

This is significantly higher than the yearly average since 2000, which stands at 1,071 wildfires and about 4,000 acres burned, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection said Wednesday.

FireSat is the first in a proposed constellation of more than 50 satellites that Muon Space hopes to use to monitor and ...

The research thus far suggests that reactions to wildfires, and whether people choose to stay, go, or just wait around for a while, can be determined by a bunch of things: whether residents have ...

The image was captured by a NASA satellite camera located a million miles from the Earth's surface, around four times farther than the orbit of the moon.

Learn about the science of wildfires -- risk factors, smoke emissions, effective controls, role in forest ecology and long-term problems.

Wildfires can generate tornado-like fire whirls and other "unpredictable and erratic" weather. An atmospheric scientist explains how. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The Creek Fire, in the Sierra National Forest in California, burned hundreds of thousands of acres in 2020. Its spread was fueled by many dead, dry trees; climate change contributed to both their ...