Some residents are helping battle the massive fire that continues to burn on the New Jersey-New York border.

May 9—Despite a massive plume of smoke rumbling into the Solano County sky, I-80 motorists had nothing to worry about as they traveled through Lagoon Valley shortly after 10:30 a.m. on Friday ...

Have you ever heard the expression “fighting fire with fire?” In its most literal sense, it can describe the practice of igniting prescribed fires to prevent future wildfires. We rarely think ...

Fighting fire with fire Local, state crews partner in first of several planned burns near Vacaville ...

Western forests are still burning too infrequently for their own good, a finding that may seem paradoxical to Arizonans anticipating a dangerous fire year after a drought-plagued winter. New ...

Officials have turned the lightning-caused Basin Fire near Flagstaff into a tool to clean up local forests and prevent catastrophic blazes.

Maracahipes stressed the importance of cooperation with Indigenous communities of California, who have practiced prescribed burns and effective fire management for far longer than U.S. fire agencies.

About 20 experimental “rock socks” (biodegradable bags containing head-started pickerelweed, water willow, and water plantain plants) were recently placed in Ashville Bay as part of a pilot program to ...

As destructive as the West's biggest fires are, their flames still reach fewer places than wildfires touched historically. That's a problem.