According to an expert in the White House, the best way to prevent forest fires is to rake all the combustible materials from forest floors. That’s easier said than done. It couldn’t be done before ...

Wildfires and extreme drought Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6% compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction in ...

Droughts that stretch on for years at a time are becoming longer and more devastating for ecosystems across the globe, according to a new study.

Maybe you have been paying attention to the trees that surround Telluride and the region and have already noticed the growing ...

More residential developments have cropped up near the forest since then. Due to the drought, a wildfire this spring could put the growing population near New Bern, Morehead City, and Jacksonville ...

To test that hypothesis, the researchers planted the seedlings in logged forests ranging from completely clearcut areas to ...

The 54-year-old was one of hundreds of farmers hit by a brutal forest fire in Sao Paulo state ... but experts attribute its scale to drought conditions exacerbated by climate change.