Ground slumping in yedoma permafrost after a wildfire, in the interior of Alaska. Yedoma permafrost generally contains large ...

A major new study reveals that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from forest fires have surged by 60% globally since 2001, and almost tripled in some of the most climate-sensitive northern boreal ...

American forests in the West have burned bigger and more frequently since 1987, and climate change is a big reason.

Boreal forest fires usually make up 10% of global wildfire-related carbon pollution. But in 2021, their contribution soared to 23%, according to the study, as extreme drought and heatwaves in ...

Carbon dioxide emissions from forest fires have surged 60% globally since 2001, as more and bigger blazes tore through fast-warming regions outside the tropics, according to a new study.

The country that hosts 10% of the planet's forest mass saw... El Mundo. The Arctic on fire, ... knocking on our doors so that no one would miss the latest plague of global warming: the Arctic on fire.

Climate change and degradation are making fires a leading cause in global forest loss, both in the tropics as well as in ...

SAN DIEGO — Some scientists fear global warming could stoke ferocious wildland fires in parts of the world, disrupting fragile ecosystems and hampering efforts to protect communities.

Even passing 1.5°C of global warming temporarily would trigger a “significant” risk of Amazon forest “dieback”, says a new ...

Global forest loss surged to record levels in 2024, with wildfires destroying 6.7 million hectares of tropical primary forest – nearly double the previous year’s – according to new satellite ...