Not all wildfires can be averted, but data, models and collaborations can help to chart a course to a fire-resilient future. Jennifer K. Balch is a fire ecologist and director of the Environmental ...

The ability to predict wildfires - such as those that recently devastated Los Angeles and Canada - is advancing rapidly with the help of ML–driven high-quality data. A new paper, published today ...

Northern wildfires may be more dangerous for the climate than they appear. Researchers found that fires in boreal forests can burn deep into peat soils, releasing ancient carbon stored for hundreds or ...