The wildfires in Manitoba have taken two lives after both were trapped by an out-of-control wildfire in the rural ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland used Landsat satellite imagery to map the area of tree cover lost to stand-replacing forest fires. Global Forest Watch/World Resources Institute The ...

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Oracle officials asked hundreds of residents to evacuate after the Cody Fire broke out in Pinal County on Wednesday. The ...

One of the largest fires erupted in the Carolina Forest area, just west of Myrtle ... open image in gallery A weekend map shows all the fires reported in North Carolina, with blazes marked by ...

It was the first time the annual report, issued by the World Resources Institute and the University of Maryland, showed fires as the leading cause of tropical forest loss, a grim milestone for a ...

Africa's forest cover is estimated at 650 million hectares or 17 percent of the world's forests. The major forest types are dry tropical forests in the Sahel, Eastern and Southern Africa ...

Famous sequoias like the General Sherman are protected by a long history of intentionally set fires ... trees in the world, including the General Sherman tree. But the Giant Forest is well ...

TOKYO — Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city. The fire has burned about 5,190 acres of ...

deploying joint emergency teams to combat forest fires, or providing health care in remote Amazon borderlands. But they need help from the wider world, he said. “The well-being of the Amazon is ...