Brazil has more tropical forest than any other country in the world. In 2024, fires caused massive destruction, resulting in six times more forest loss than during the previous year.

Humans’ work to suppress fires may have also exacerbated the budworms’ growth, according to the DNR’s 2024 Forest Health Annual Report. Stopping natural fires allows fir and spruce forests ...

Tropical forest loss skyrocketed in 2024, with vast swaths of primary forest consumed by fire, according to new satellite data from the University of Maryland’s Global Land Analysis and ...

With successive records of high temperatures around the world and an increase in extreme weather events, the ecological ...

The research, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, finds a “significant increase” in the severity of forest fires from ... urgent attention.” The maps below highlight the difference in severity ...

Part of the Earth’s natural cycles of warming and cooling, heatwaves have always affected our planet. However, climate change means that intense and prolonged heat events are now impacting areas ...

Crews are also battling huge wildfires in Central and Western Canada, with the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire ... House and Horse River fires. Below are interactive maps, updated regularly ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — More than 11,000 acres have burned in wildfires across Central Texas so far in 2025, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. A total of 24 fires have burned 11,250.6 acres in ...

The escalating frequency and intensity of forest fires in Pakistan are a stark manifestation of the climate crisis, exposing the country's vulnerability to global warming. From the Margalla Hills ...

The post also includes an image of the fictional Dr. Evil character from the "Austin Powers" film series gesturing air quotes with text in the image that reads, "'Forest fires.'" It was shared ...

The announcement marks one of Brazil’s largest uses of remote sensing to sanction agriculture activity associated with deforestation. The move signals a shift toward more aggressive ...