A new report revealed that young people in the Philippines are purchasing and using illegal vaping products at staggering ...

According to Asian Dispatch, rising temperatures and uneven rainfall, combined with silt excavation, are affecting the ...

Urban fires are unique in a sense that it’s not just trees and other biomass burning. When homes and vehicles catch fire, plastics, electronics, cleaning chemicals, paints, textiles, construction ...

The Caldor Fire burned 221,835 acres in parts of El Dorado, Alpine and Amador counties. In total, 1,005 structures were ...

In the forests of the Sierra Nevada, the black-backed woodpecker is without parallel. The bird appears almost born of fire, ...

Iron pyrite is a naturally occurring mineral that can be used to strike flint, creating sparks to ignite tinder. Pyrite's rarity in the local area suggests these early people had knowledge of its ...

Dangerous fire weather conditions were underway in Colorado and Wyoming’s foothills that had forecasters using the most dire language possible to characterize Friday’s fire threat. “This is a ...

Cheng credits his co-authors' preexisting relationships with the Indigenous communities. Herman-Mercer has worked for years ...

As California again delays controversial rules requiring homeowners in fire-prone areas to maintain a 5-foot “ember-resistant” zone around their houses, a new report finds that properties that were ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity on a humble field in Barnham in the U.K. county of Suffolk. According to Chris Stringer of ...

A prescribed burn at UT's Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in September 2025 Credit: James Thompson / Jackson School of Geosciences at UT Austin The city of Austin is surrounded by miles and miles ...

LONDON (AP) — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setting took place in what is ...