The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

Broken toilets, bed bugs and rats: US firefighters are in a housing crisis

A recent survey found 86% of respondents have lived in their cars and crashed on couches while they fight fire

The Guardian - US · Jun 13, 2024

Of ice and fire: what sea salt in Antarctic snowfall reveals about bushfires worse than the Black Summer

Australia has a long history of bushfires. The 2019-2020 Black Summer was the worst in recorded history. But was that the worst it could get?

The Conversation · Jun 13, 2024

Teenage RFS volunteer fought fires he lit during Hunter rampage

Jack Hardidge lit several fires over two months.

Newcastle Herald · Jun 12, 2024

Forest fire incidents on rise in J-K's Rajouri Forest Division this summer, 8 incidents reported so far, says official

Incidents of forest fire in the areas in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri Forest Division have been on the rise this summer season compared to last year, says an official. According to Balwant Singh. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News · May 29, 2024

Changing native vegetation laws to allow burning on private land is good fire management

Bushfires cause catastrophic biodiversity loss across Australia. In the Black Summer of 2019–20 alone, 103,400 square kilometres of habitat went up in flames.

The Conversation · May 28, 2024

Chile accuses volunteer firefighter and ex-forestry official with causing huge fire that killed 137

A Chilean judge has ordered a volunteer firefighter and a former forestry official detained for allegedly planning and causing a mammoth forest fire that caused 137 deaths and made 16,000 people homeless in February

The Independent UK · May 26, 2024

Fire breaks out at Broadmoor psychiatric hospital site

Footage of the scene shows huge flames spending plumes of black smoke into the sky

Evening Standard · May 25, 2024

General Sherman passes health check but world's largest trees face growing climate threats

Researchers climbed the world’s largest tree to inspect for bark beetles and descended the giant sequoia with good news this week

The Independent UK · May 23, 2024

Satellites capture smoke pouring from hundreds of wildfires across North America (photos)

NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites have captured the smoke pouring out of hundreds of wildfires blazing across Canada and Mexico since last week.

Space · May 22, 2024

Sites with radioactive material more vulnerable as climate change increases wildfire, flood risks

Climate climate change increasingly threatens research laboratories, weapons sites and power plants across the nation that handle or are contaminated with radioactive material or perform critical energy and defense research

The Independent UK · May 22, 2024