There is no longer any question of how to prevent high-intensity, often catastrophic, wildfires that have become increasingly frequent across the Western U.S., according to a new study by researchers ...

arising from Cunningham, C. X. et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02452-2 (2024) Cunningham et al. 1 documented an upward trend in ...

Studying the scale and intensity of previous fires can help us to detect thermal hotspots earlier and support faster, smarter ...

Dangerous fire weather is increasing under climate change, but there is limited knowledge of how this will affect fire intensity, a critical determinant of the socioecological effects of wildfire.

For four years, naturalist Allison Dixon regularly walked from dusk until dawn at the Warrungup Spring bush reserve south of Perth, carefully documenting every western ringtail possum she saw. The ...

For more than two decades, science has recognized that building fires have become hotter, faster-spreading and more toxic. One engineer blames it on the world’s “addiction to polymers,” a reference to ...

Ecologist Chad Hanson felt hopeful as he stood within a large burn scar in Sierra National Forest on a recent fall day. This landscape, charred four years earlier in the Railroad Fire, might look to ...

High-intensity, often catastrophic, wildfires have become increasingly frequent across the Western U.S. Researchers quantified the value of managed low-intensity burning to dramatically reduce the ...

Researchers found that low-intensity fires reduced risk of high-intensity fires in conifer forests by about 60%. The reduction benefits are estimated to last about six years. There is no longer any ...