Snowpacks in western United States are projected to decline in size and melt earlier when high emissions climate scenarios are combined with more wildfires, putting an increasing strain on vital water ...

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A memorial site was dedicated today to honor the four people that died when the Modular Airborne FireFighting System (MAFFS) C-130 air tanker crashed in South Dakota exactly a year ago. MAFFS 7, from ...

Smokejumpers in the 555 preparing for a mission in 1945. Jump masters inspect their fellow jumpers. (From THE TRIPLE NICKLES) This article was written by retired Lt. Col. Bradley Biggs who was the ...

Canada’s 2025 wildfire season is off to a busy start as nearly 100 out-of-control fires triggered states of emergency and multiple evacuations on Friday. The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center on ...

(The map above is our estimate, based on internet searches, of states that ban sky lanterns. We make no claim that it is 100 percent accurate, and bear no responsibility for how it may be used.) Sky ...

The Earth Fire Alliance has hired NASA’s Wildland Fire Program Manager Dr Michael Falkowski to be its first Lead Scientist. Earth Fire Alliance is a global nonprofit coalition intent on delivering ...

Wildfires are here, and prisoners will be deployed to the frontlines to help fight these flames. They were on the 2025 L.A. Fires. Every summer, wildfires explode onto the scene and into the ...

A firefighter on the White Draw Fire uses a radio to coordinate with other firefighters. July 29, 2012. Photo by Bill Gabbert. The US Department of the Interior and the USDA Forest Service on Tuesday ...

The winning images in the 2025 AFE Photo Contest are well worth viewing to see wildfire in all its color, beauty, nature and humanity. The annual contest by the Association for Fire Ecology always ...

Over 50 countries and high-level organizations signed a global call to action focused on wildfires at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, which is happening in Belem, Brazil this ...

Miami -Dade Fire Rescue’s helicopter base at Tamiami airport in south Florida. Photo by Bill Gabbert. The Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (MDFR) Air Rescue Bureau has four Bell 412 EPs that are used for ...