Simultaneous emergencies in different parts of the world could stop countries from sharing ground crews and equipment, new research warns.

While the trend to more extreme fire weather days is well understood for many regions worldwide, a new study has identified the rising incidence of widespread concurrent extreme fire weather days ...

Northern wildfires may be more dangerous for the climate than they appear. Researchers found that fires in boreal forests can burn deep into peat soils, releasing ancient carbon stored for hundreds or ...

Using future climate scenarios based on wildfire damages in North America, scientists estimate that up to 10,000 or more ...

A new attribution report published Thursday shows that global warming made the extreme hot and dry conditions preceding this summer’s wildfires in Portugal and Spain 40 times more likely and 30 ...

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 ...

Global forest loss hit the highest level on record last year, per detailed University of Maryland and World Resources Institute tracking data. Why it matters: The CO2 emissions from fires — the ...