In the recent years of unprecedented wildfires, the public discourse has been filled with speculation that such a total tree ...

New research from Western Colorado University shows that the long-held conventional belief about aspen trees being resilient to wildfires is more than just an anecdotal assumption. Matt Harris, a ...

LOS ANGELES (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - A video was released showing multiple hikers confronting and detaining a man who they saw light a tree on fire in an apparent attempt to start a forest fire. The ...

Across Australia, forests are quietly changing. Trees that once stood for decades or centuries are now dying at an ...

A new dataset and analysis released by World Resources Institute finds global tropical forest loss jumped to a record high in 2024, with 6.7 million hectares (16.6 million acres) worldwide. In total, ...

The Garnet fire burned into the McKinley grove of giant sequoia trees by Monday morning. Fire officials say several trees are burning and specially trained firefighters are on the way. A blaze raging ...

The aggressive Redbay Ambrosia beetle is no bigger than Abraham Lincoln’s nose on a penny, but over the last two decades, the invasive insect has managed to kill more than 500 million trees in North ...

Lightning-sparked flames raced through a roughly 3,000-acre tract of old-growth forest in the central Sierra Nevada during the Garnet Fire in September. Before this year, the Teakettle Experimental ...

Giant sequoias can live for thousands of years, but wildfires have killed staggering numbers of the trees in recent years. By Soumya Karlamangla California fire crews are scrambling to save a grove of ...

HAMAKUA (HawaiiNewsNow) - A fire on Hawaii Island is going into its third day of burning. On Friday, around 4 p.m., a fire broke out in the Laupahoehoe area on Kaala Road. Upon investigation, the ...

Roughly 500 years ago in California's High Sierra, pine cones dropped to the ground and a cycle began. The Aztec Empire was falling. The printing press was new. The seedlings grew. Half a millennia ...