Research led by Oregon State University shows that fires are more likely to burn their way into national forests than out of them.
Environment
Mar 29, 2022
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Australian firefighters are struggling to control a massive bush fire that already destroyed 40 percent of the UNESCO world heritage-listed Fraser Island before a heatwave hit Monday.
Environment
Nov 30, 2020
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Hundreds of Greek firefighters battled a forest fire near Athens for a third day on Saturday, but brought the main front of the blaze under control as weather conditions improved.
Environment
May 22, 2021
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Residents of a southern suburb of Athens returned to their homes on Sunday after firefighters managed to bring under control a wildfire that had forced them to evacuate the day before, the emergency services said.
Environment
Jun 5, 2022
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Acrid yellow smoke clogs the skies of major Western U.S. cities, a human-caused fire in the Columbia River Gorge rains ash on Portland, Oregon, and a century-old backcountry chalet burns to the ground in Montana's Glacier ...
Environment
Sep 8, 2017
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There's a dangerous but basic equation behind the wildfire that killed 19 Arizona firefighters and other blazes raging across the American West this summer: More heat, more drought, more fuel and more people in the way are ...
Environment
Jul 5, 2013
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The 200-foot wall of flames, the burning embers landing miles away and the carloads of evacuees fleeing to shelter at a high school—it all took place in New Jersey but could happen in almost every part of the country this ...
Environment
Apr 12, 2023
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At a military training site in Surrey, southeast England, a small team of firefighters blast the surrounding heathland with water as they practice tackling a different kind of enemy: climate change.
Environment
Aug 27, 2023
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Raging floods across Myanmar have forced tens of thousands of people from their homes in recent weeks, officials said Thursday, as monsoon rains pummel the nation.
Environment
Aug 8, 2019
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Kirtland's warblers are an endangered species of lightweight little birds with bright yellow-bellies that summer in North America and winter in the Bahamas. But be it their winter or their summer home, a ...
Ecology
Dec 7, 2011
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