wildfire

Alberta's 2019 decision to cancel funding for an elite wildfire-fighting crew in 2019 came despite pleas to keep the Rapattack program from at least three municipalities, including one that has since been evacuated during this spring's blazes.

A year after the most destructive wildfire in the state's history scorched nearly 1,100 homes, Colorado lawmakers are considering joining other western states by adopting AI in the hopes of detecting blazes before they burn out of control.

Skeetchestn fire keeper Joe Gilchrist is on a mission to make the regenerative burning practices his grandfather taught him commonplace. At stake is an important practice for culture, food security and the future of B.C.'s forests. 

The city’s elusive cougars will do a lot to avoid people, including getting risky with wildfire.

A new study finds wildfires are burning more high-elevation areas and dramatically impacting the West’s snowpack as a result.

Californians sweated it out amid a record-breaking heat wave entering its 10th day on Friday, September 9, 2022, that has helped fuel deadly wildfires and pushed energy supplies to the brink of daily power outages.

Landslides of wildfire ash have poisoned tens of thousands of fish in the already-imperilled Klamath Basin.

Residents of the British Columbia community of Olalla are now allowed to return home after being forced out by a threatening wildfire last week.

When 2,000 residents of the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation were forced out of Pukatawagan because of a wildfire in July, they had to leave their beloved pets behind.

British Columbia is expected to experience sustained wildfire activity in August and September, especially in southern regions, with a long-range forecast of hot-dry weather.

The fire is a threat to more than 500 mature sequoias in the park's Mariposa Grove and the nearby community of Wawona, which has been evacuated.

The blaze grew from 46 acres (19 hectares) Thursday night to 250 acres (101 hectares) by Friday morning with no containment, said Nancy Phillipe, a Yosemite fire information spokesperson.

A wildfire that destroyed the British Columbia village of Lytton couldn’t have been stopped, even with an area-wide emergency response, says a new report.