Forest fires now burn 10 times more acreage annually than in 1985, while wildfire severity has gotten even worse. In ...

Humans have altered the forests of western North America markedly over the past several centuries. We’ve suppressed fire, harvested much of the old-growth trees, and built homes and communities within ...

World lost 8.1 million hectares of forest in 2024, report says Fires, agriculture major drivers of deforestation, per Forest Declaration Assessment Brazil's TFFF fund aims to raise $125 billion for ...

In 2019 and again in 2021, Penn State researchers in the Department of Geography walked a series of 1,000 square foot plots in California's Lassen Volcanic National Park. The goal was to see how the ...

In 2024, the Amazon Rainforest underwent its most devastating forest fire season in more than two decades. According to a new study by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, the fire-driven ...

Researchers at Lund University have produced the most detailed map of carbon emissions from Swedish forest fires to date. The results show that the largest emissions occur below the ground surface, in ...

The Amazon has suffered its most destructive fire season in more than two decades, releasing a staggering 791 million tons of carbon dioxide—on par with Germany’s annual emissions. Scientists found ...

In 2025, the world razed less forest than any other year in the last decade. The bad news: global warming is making wildfires more frequent and intense. Note: Circles are enlarged for legibility and ...