When dinosaurs roamed a fiery landscape
The dinosaurs of the Cretaceous may have faced an unexpected hazard: fire! View More (2012-03-30)
Study of Wildfire Trends in Northwestern California Shows No Increase in Severity Over Time
Even though wildfires have increased in size over time, they haven't necessarily grown in severity nor had corresponding negative impacts to the ecosystem, according to a recently published study appearing in the journal Ecological Applications. View More (2012-03-01)
A look back suggests a sobering future of wildfire dangers in US west
The American West has seen a recent increase in large wildfires due to droughts, the build-up of combustible fuel, or biomass, in forests, a spread of fire-prone species and increased tree mortality from insects and heat. View More (2012-02-15)
Rapid rise in wildfires in large parts of Canada?
Large forest regions in Canada are apparently about to experience rapid change. Based on models, scientists can now show that there are threshold values for wildfires just like there are for epidemics. View More (2011-12-19)
Trees on Tundra's Border Are Growing Faster in a Hotter Climate
Evergreen trees at the edge of Alaska's tundra are growing faster, suggesting that at least some forests may be adapting to a rapidly warming climate, says a new study. View More (2011-11-11)
Savannas, forests in a battle of the biomes, Princeton researchers find
Climate change, land use and other human-driven factors could pit savannas and forests against each other by altering the elements found by Princeton University researchers to stabilize the two. View More (2011-11-01)
Scorched Earth: The Past, Present and Future of Human Influences on Wildfires
Fires have continuously occurred on Earth for at least the last 400 million years. But since the 1970s, the frequency of wildfires has increased at least four-fold, and the total size of burn areas has increased at least six-fold in the western United States alone. View More (2011-09-16)
Researchers analyze the evolving human relationship with fire
Humanity's relationship to fire -- including wildfires, burning of fossil fuels, controlled burns, and human-caused fire -- is the focus of a report by an international team of scientists. View More (2011-09-15)
Scientists Report Dramatic Carbon Loss From Massive Arctic Wildfire
In a study published in this week's issue of Nature, Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) senior scientist Gauis Shaver and his colleagues, including lead author Michelle Mack of the University of Florida, describe the dramatic impacts of a massive Arctic wildfire on carbon releases to the atmosphere. View More (2011-07-29)
Baylor Study Finds Some Desert Birds Less Affected By Wildfires and Climate Change
A new Baylor University study has found that some bird species in the desert southwest are less affected, and in some cases positively influenced, by widespread fire through their habitat. View More (2011-07-20)
Study Finds Peat Wildfire Smoke Linked to Heart Failure Risk
In the summer of 2008, a lightning strike started a wildfire in eastern North Carolina that burned for weeks, blanketing nearby communities in smoke. View More (2011-06-28)
Forest Service unveils first comprehensive forecast on southern forests
The USDA Forest Service and the Southern Group of State Foresters released the first phase of the Southern Forest Futures Project report on Tuesday, May 17, which identifies areas forest managers will focus on to maintain southern forests in the coming years. View More (2011-05-18)
EARTH: A decade-plus of tracking lunar larceny
In the back alleys of the world's capitals and the ballrooms of presidential palaces exists a black market that preys on the imagination of some and the greed of others. View More (2011-02-23)
Drought and rising temperatures weaken southwest forests
Forests in the southwestern United States are changing and will face reduced growth if temperatures continue to rise and precipitation declines during this century. View More (2010-12-14)
Team of scientists predicts continued death of forests in southwestern US due to climate change
If current climate projections hold true, the forests of the Southwestern United States face a bleak future, with more severe -- and more frequent -- forest fires, higher tree death rates, more insect infestation, and weaker trees. View More (2010-12-14)
What Can Ice Reveal About Fire?
Scientists studying a column of Antarctic ice spanning 650 years have found evidence for fluctuations in biomass burning--the consumption of wood, peat and other materials in wildfires, cooking fires and communal fires--in the Southern Hemisphere. View More (2010-12-06)
Northern wildfires threaten runaway climate change, study reveals
Climate change is causing wildfires to burn more fiercely, pumping more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than previously thought, according to a new study to be published in Nature Geosciences this week. View More (2010-12-06)
Crop failures set to increase under climate change
Large-scale crop failures like the one that caused the recent Russian wheat crisis are likely to become more common under climate change due to an increased frequency of extreme weather events, a new study shows. View More (2010-10-07)
NASA satellite data aid United Nations' ability to detect global fire hotspots
In the midst of a difficult fire season in many parts of the world, the United Nations' (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization has launched a new online fire detection system that will help firefighters and natural hazards managers improve response time and resource management. View More (2010-09-09)
NRL scientist seeing clearly the effects of pyrocumulonimbus
Wildfires can wreak widespread havoc and devastation, affecting environmental assets lives, property and livelihoods. View More (2010-08-27)
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