Wildfires were once seasonal and somewhat predictable. Now they have shifted, and are more destructive, harder to contain and less predictable. Wildfires have helped increase biodiversity and growth ...

The most high-risk conditions for fires are increasingly happening across countries at the same time, making resulting wildfires even more challenging to tackle, new research reveals.

LONDON (AP) — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setting took place in what is ...

As it slowed the rate of wildfire fuels reduction on federal forest lands, the U.S. Forest Service has also returned to a firefighting policy that could also boost levels of flammable materials in ...

Wildfires are tearing through large parts of southern Argentina, burning vast stretches of land and placing nearby communities at serious risk. The fires have spread quickly across forested and rural ...

Legislation to eliminate a Washington state tax break for large mortgage lenders and use the revenue to partially backfill wildfire prevention programs is making progress in Olympia.