Prescribed fires are a critical tool to preventing catastrophic wildfires. Such controlled burning helps reduce the intensity of future fires because it eliminates brush and other flammable materials, ...

Burning trees also makes the forest hotter and drier, which makes it more flammable, so additional fires do more damage. Deforestation is a global problem that will require a variety of different ...

Decades of acid rain generated by power-plant emissions ... Evidence for the scale of damage to the world's forests comes from the Italian Alps. I joined a research team led by Henk Visscher ...

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to assess harms to endangered wildlife and plants when determining the national ...