Discarded cigarette butts and piles of burning yard waste are two of the most common culprits of human-caused wildfires.

Historically dry conditions and drought in the mid-Atlantic and Northeastern part of the United States are a key factor in ...

Importantly, the results depended strongly on the condition of the land before the fire – especially how frequently it had ...

The first ministerial conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum was held on November 9-10 in the Sirius Federal Territory on Russia’s Black Sea coast ...

Oarfish have a mythical reputation as predictors of natural disasters and earthquakes, though there have been no sizable ...

With destructive wildfires burning on both coasts, fire officials might use jargon unfamiliar to residents of states where ...

As sea levels rose around this low-lying island nation, soil salinity increased beyond what even the salt-tolerant mangrove ...

Some of the country's wartime environmental catastrophes, scientists say, can be turned into long-term ecological gains.

Last week’s observance of the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict highlighted the often-overlooked toll war exacts on nature. While war ...

Fighting fires from a safe distance, regardless of water levels and weather conditions.  WHEN loading and unloading vessels, ...

(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) Members of the fire brigade search the area for bodies washed away ... vehicles that last week's ...