New Delhi: The year 2025 saw the most expensive wildfires in the world, according to a new study in Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, published on 1 June. Even though the total area burnt this ...

A pair of disturbances common in Western Canada's boreal forests, when combined, may have an unexpected benefit of limiting the spread of non-native plant species, a University of Alberta study shows.

Heat waves in the UK have led to unseasonable drying of vegetation bypassing natural ecological processes that limit the spread of wildfires, a new study has found. In a paper published in the journal ...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. First, the good news: A new analysis of global wildfire activity in 2025 shows that the year had the second-lowest area burned since 2002. But at ...

As wildfires grow more destructive across the nation and around the world, researchers at the University of California are racing to understand the forces driving these blazes and find new ways to ...

Heatwaves in the UK have led to unseasonable drying of vegetation bypassing natural ecological processes that limit the spread of wildfires, a new study has found. In a paper published in the journal ...