Tasmania has been burning for more than two weeks, with no end in sight. Almost 100,000 hectares of bushland in the northwest has burned to date ...

Southern California is getting drenched with the strongest storm of the year to date. Rainfall totals through Friday are expected to surpass two inches in Los Angeles County, ...

Just after 2pm (AEDT), the Tasmania Fire Service issued a Bushfire Emergency Warning for Corinna and surrounds, urging people ...

SANTORINI, Greece (AP) — Earthquakes rattled Greece’s volcanic island of Santorini every few minutes overnight and into ...

A string of hot and stormy days has left numerous fires burning across Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia this week.

picking strawberries under a blood-orange sky because of smoke from the Hughes Fire in north Los Angeles County. "That reddish light, there's something primal that – you really do – sort of ...

Tuesday, 5:30 p.m. PST Los Angeles County public health officials issue closures of several miles of beach near the Palisades ...

Fire spotters used to watch with binoculars from forest towers. Now, technology can help forecast fire behavior, but human experience is still essential.

In particular, a significant body of research demonstrates that exposure to wildfire smoke has negative effects on the brain. One study of more than 10,000 U.S. adults found that exposure to ...

A variety of new technologies aim to improve wildfire detection and help map the spread of blazes Embers ... Now by searching the landscape for signs of smoke, they help agencies track fire ...

Several methods and lines of evidence used in the analysis confirm that climate change made the catastrophic LA wildfires more likely, said report co-author Theo Keeping, a wildfire researcher at the ...

The Washington State Wine Commission hosted a talk Wednesday highlighting research into how wineries around the state can fight the impacts of wildfire smoke on wine grapes. The issue of “smoke ...