In January 2025, a series of devastating wildfires hit Southern California. Lives were lost. Homes and businesses were ...

In Aug. 2024, a team of NASA researchers and partners gathered in Missoula, to test new drone-based technology for localized ...

NASA satellites have helped with early wildfire detection. Now that those satellites are at the end of their life, the ...

Fewer wildfires burn in North American forests today than in previous centuries, increasing the risk of more severe wildfires ...

The Canadian Space Agency is developing a way to track wildfires from orbit. The federal government is investing $72 million ...

For the rest of this century, Canada is guaranteed to have an increasing need for water bombers and other tools to combat ...

The fires, which are now considered mostly contained, blazed until the end of January. While the 2025 Grammy Awards are set to go on as planned, several music labels canceled their affiliated ...

The deadly, wind-fueled Palisades and Eaton fires, which broke out 3½ weeks ago in Southern California, were declared fully contained Friday by the California Department of Forestry and Fire ...

According to the U.S. government, some 85% of California's wildfires are caused by humans. Meanwhile in Canada, "Wildfires have been getting less frequent over the past 30 years," according to ...

The result is revealed by this image: With almost no rain between May and January of 2024, soils in the Los Angeles area were extremely dry at the time of the fires. (Credit: NASA Earth Observatory) ...

DARREN STONE, TIMES COLONIST More than half of Canada’s tree seedlings are grown in B.C. — an anchor to an industry poised to grow amid a violent spike in wildfire activity, according to a new ...

According to data from NASA Landsats, warm and dry weather in Los Angeles in the last two-thirds of 2024 primed the vegetation to catch fire, and for that fire to spread quickly. The largest fires ...