Global carbon emissions from forest fires have increased by 60% over the past two decades, with the largest contributions coming from fires in Siberia and western North America.

Manufacturers have to provide information on the fire behaviour of construction products, but there is no requirement to quantify the toxicity of the smoke.

After wildfires in California and Colorado cities, levels of harmful metals in the water jumped. Nature sent up a red flag.

For trees, growing to maturity involves much more than just reaching upward.

Carbon loosed by a 2018 fire season in Sweden could take 40 years to return to trees and soil.

Fire-produced thunderstorms and tornado-like fire whirls are more common than anyone realized, as high-resolution satellite images and data now show.

Fire-produced thunderstorms and tornado-like fire whirls are more common than anyone realized, as high-resolution satellite images and data now show.

An unplanned experiment when wildfire smoke rolled through Colorado shows how trees keep some of the smoke out.

Roofs, windows and siding all affect how vulnerable a home is and how likely it is to survive a wildfire. So does what’s around it in the ‘home ignition zone.’

Satellites used satellite sensors to identify the 0.01% ‘most extreme’ fires worldwide.