Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every few years, a wildfire resets the terms of the conversation. The January 2025 fires that swept through Los Angeles did ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study found prescribed burns highly increase the survival rate of giant sequoia trees from two recent California wildfires.

After a recent wildfire in Berlin, in Rensselaer County, NEWS10 is taking a closer look at how communities are reducing the ...

A new study finds that burning 500,000 acres (202,000 hectares) of California conifer forests each year with prescribed fire could cut deadly pollution from wildfire smoke by roughly 10% over a decade ...

ROGERS, Ark. — Several counties across Northwest Arkansas remain under a burn ban, prohibiting any outdoor burning as dry and windy conditions increase the risk of wildfires. Washington, Benton, ...

Cultural burning is an Indigenous community-based practice where controlled fire is used to manage landscapes like forests. These work by reducing dried, flammable vegetation in a manageable way.

For Kai Sauerbrey, fire program director for The Nature Conservancy in Oregon, a day spent advocating for policy is far from routine. “Put me in front of 100 firefighters, and I am rooted in my ...

The National Park Service will conduct two planned fires in Michigan's Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore this month to restore forest habitats and reduce the threat of wildfires. The prescribed ...