HUMANITY HAS lived and played with fire for at least 300,000 years. The oldest hearth, discovered at Qesem Cave in Israel and thick with wood ash, is as old as Homo sapiens. Burning never ...

When is it acceptable to set a fire that could rage out of control? In the real world, the answer, of course, is never. But if you're in the virtual world of a computer model, starting such a fire ...

Thousands of people across four counties in Southern California have been evacuated from their homes as wildfires burned through the region this past week, some escaping at the last minute while ...

The National Park Service has warned the public of a 10-acre wildland fire burning near Hannah Mountain. Several areas of the Smoky Mountains National Park have been closed due to potential fire ...

Aug. 28, 2024 — Public health researchers have highlighting the compounded effects of frequent wildfires and smoke exposure on physical and mental health, local economies and community ...

In the San Bernardino Mountains, another wildfire has forced residents to flee, the latest reminder that they must accept the risks of climate change if they want to remain. By Soumya ...

He started to cut it back, at first for esthetic reasons. But after a wildfire broke out in the nearby community of Upper Tantallon in May 2023 — destroying 151 homes in its path — Meade ...

APS has new wildfire prevention technology this year to track weather conditions that could fuel a fire before or after it sparks.

Wildfires are becoming more frequent and more severe — and where there’s fire, there’s smoke. That smoke can travel thousands of miles. As more people are exposed to wildfire smoke ...

Wildfire smoke creates fine particulate matter that can linger in the atmosphere and spread from coast to coast. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in large quantities ...

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