These blazes can cause ecological shifts even in fire-adapted forests.

Towering woodlands in the West are being permanently replaced by tracts of spiky shrubs. Conditions “just aren’t normal anymore,” one researcher said.

A relatively small number of rapidly spreading wildfire events burn disproportionately large areas. But beyond area burned, do fast fires produce distinct postfire ecological outcomes? Here, we measur...

Mountains that normally see their peak snowpack in March are brown this year, thanks to a spring heat dome that baked western U.S. for much of the second half of the month. That's raising alarm bells ...

The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...

On the cusp of wildfire season, a new proposal recommends consolidating all federal firefighting resources, calls for immediate fire suppression.

Trump’s economic agenda is about fooling the American people.

The Karuk of Northern California are one of many Native peoples with a long tradition of burning their ancestral lands. These practices are key inspiration for an annual prescribed fire training that’...

Politicians have an agenda when they bring up forestry management or a Jewish space laser. They're trying to change the subject from fossil-fuel-driven climate change.

Conditions for a January firestorm in Los Angeles like this have not existed before now, writes a meteorologist and climate journalist

When the smoke clears, the lies remain.

Climate change is forcing species to shift their distribution ranges. Animal seed dispersers might be particularly important in assisting plants tracking suitable climates to higher elevations. Howe.....

The first Australians used fire to help populate Tasmania 41,000 years ago Aboriginal Australians used fire to manipulate landscapes during their migration into Tasmania (Lutruwita) roughly 4...

This study addresses a key knowledge gap by demonstrating the influence of fuel architecture on shoot flammability and improves understanding of why species with certain architecture (e.g. highly bra...

Multiple recent record-shattering weather events raise questions about the adequacy of climate models to effectively predict and prepare for unprec...

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