8,462 hectares of forest area were lost in 2022, followed by 9,764 hectares in 2023, and 4,067 hectares so far in 2024 ...

A new study reveals how forest management informed by Indigenous practices creates unexpected benefits for drought-prone ...

New research finds that climate-driven shifts in wildfire seasons in North America are different depending on the ecosystem.

The number of days when the weather gets hot, dry and windy – ideal to spark extreme wildfires – has nearly tripled in the ...

National parks in the United States represent a treasure trove of natural, historical, and recreational landscapes, but their ...

Highly detailed 3D scans of dense tropical rain forest plots are enabling precise estimates of tree structure, volume and ...

Escalating wildfires, wind damage and insect outbreaks could threaten tourism, water supplies and biodiversity, a new study ...

For decades, wilderness lands have been left largely unaltered by human activity. But those places are still changing, and ...

America’s national parks were conceived as sanctuaries from the forces remaking the rest of the continent. Climate change is now breaching that boundary. A recent assessment of park vulnerability ...

An unusual outbreak of wildfires in city parks gave scientists a chance to study these rare events. Now they’re coming to ...

Lightning sparked almost 60% of the wildfires—and those blazes accounted for 93% of the total area burned.

Forest managers in the eastern Cascades selectively thin forests to promote wildfire resilience. New research from the University of Washington shows that the same process can also increase seasonal ...