Gopeshwar, Efforts to extinguish the forest fire raging for the past five days in the Nanda Devi Wildlife Forest Division in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district were intensified on Wednesday, with the ...

Jeff Tilley, forest silviculturist with the Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests, ignites grasses during a prescribed burn in Woodstock on Thursday, April 9, 2026. Photo by Alex ...

After more than a century of fire suppression in California’s forests, mounting evidence shows that frequent fire — through practices like prescribed fire or Indigenous cultural burning — can improve ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. According to a study published today in the journal Science, every dollar that the ...

Controlled prescribed burns may actually reduce the amount smoke-related pollution overall, according to a study published in Science magazine.

WASHINGTON STATE — Wildfires have been growing larger, burning longer and destroying more land and property over the last two decades, according to the U.S. Forest Service. As agencies in the West ...

India's record forest fires expose the impact of climate change, weak forest governance, and failing ecological restoration.