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 ...

ALPINE COUNTY (CBS SF) -- A brief video clip taken from inside the cab of a UC Davis Fire Department truck while driving through part of the Tamarack Fire provided a harrowing glimpse of the danger ...

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 ...