As climate change promotes fire-favorable weather, climate-driven wildfires in extratropical forests have overtaken tropical forests as the leading source of global fire emissions, researchers report.

Fires have long been a natural part of forest ecosystems, but something is changing. Our new study shows that forest fires have become more widespread and severe amid global heating, particularly in ...

Climate change and human activities like deforestation are causing more fires in central and west Africa's wet, tropical forests, according to the first-ever comprehensive survey there. The fires have ...

A major new study reveals that carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions from forest fires have surged by 60% globally since 2001, and almost tripled in some of the most climate-sensitive northern boreal ...

Morocco’s National Agency for Water and Forests (ANEF)  has issued a new alert that places several regions on high fire risk.

In the western United States, warmer and drier conditions have contributed to increases in large wildfire events in recent decades, a trend that’s expected to continue as the climate changes. A new, ...

A new and alarming pattern of destruction is emerging in the rainforest, challenging Brazilian authorities ahead of COP30. After plunging in 2023 and 2024, deforestation in the Amazon surged 92% in ...

The author should be contacted directly for interview requests. WASHINGTON — A new study presents the first large-scale analysis of fire patterns in west and central Africa’s wet, tropical forests.