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Firefighters held a vast wildfire inside its perimeter in southwestern France on Saturday, allowing about 198,000 people to return home after what…
When Professor Stefan Rahmstorf looked back from the Atlantic surf towards the French coast last Wednesday, the first sign something…
France sent a hulking military cargo plane to dump tons of flame retardants as it battled raging wildfires on Saturday and slashed…
The man accused of sparking the deadly Palisades Fire in Los Angeles was upset that he didn’t have plans for New Year’s…
Earlier this month, a balloon coated in aluminum foil—the kind normally seen at a child’s birthday party—drifted into the path…
It took less than three minutes for wind-whipped flames to go from licking the side of the house to shattering a window…
PacifiCorp has agreed to pay $575 million to resolve the federal government’s claims for damages stemming from six wildfires in…
A new federal organization called the U.S. Wildland Fire Service has been established to streamline government responses to the growing…
Wildfires have stopped waiting for summer. They now burn through entire regions year-round, fuelled by heat, wind and drought. Every…
The Earth’s forests, soil and oceans are reaching their critical limits to naturally store carbon, as decades of climate change…