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We look at whether using a wood fire to heat your home is being really green or not.

Big Government strangles our ecosystems just like it strangles scientific research.  Australia has had 57 bushfire inquiries since 1939. We knew what was coming and we knew how to stop it, and we’ve known for eighty...

This is how the paradigm changes. The old activism is quietly dropped down the memory hole… Buried in a save-the-koala story on ABC News tonight is an ABC journalist saying for the first time that it is “current...

This is how the paradigm changes. The old activism is quietly dropped down the memory hole… Buried in a save-the-koala story on ABC News tonight is an ABC journalist saying for the first time that it is “current...

From KEPRTV by Megan Magensky  Sunday, July 21st 2019 KLICKITAT COUNTY, Wash. — KLICKITAT COUNTY, Wash. — The Juniper Fire is now 40 percent contained, according to a press release. The fire is mostly burning in the...

The California wildfires are raging on, but humans aren’t the only ones in danger. Thousands of pets and farm animals have received attention in Northern and Southern California while over 400 square miles continue to burn....

Blazes in Colorado closed the 1.8-million-acre San Juan National Forest this week. The 416 Fire is burning on 25,900 acres and is 15 percent contained, according to a June 13 Facebook post. Meanwhile, in New Mexico, the 1.6-million-acre...

Wildfires are raging in Russia and Siberia, and they could have drastic consequences for the entire planet. Blazes burning in the Amur region since the start of 2018 have damaged an area around six times bigger than during...

Wildfires are raging in Russia and Siberia, and they could have drastic consequences for the entire planet. Blazes burning in the Amur region since the start of 2018 have damaged an area around six times bigger than during...

The largest wildfire in Greenland's history burned bright last summer, a potential warning sign for a future rattled by catastrophic climate change. Scientists are concerned that Greenland's massive ice sheet may absorb...

Winter got you down? Tired of snow and ice that just won't quit? Perhaps some shooting flames will ease your winter woes. Elon Musk's The Boring Company recently announced that aspiring pyromaniacal customers can preorder...

Fires continue to ravage Southern California. While the Thomas Fire rages in Ventura County, one man was captured on video rescuing a wild rabbit hopping near Highway 1 in La Conchita. As the animal jumped near the flames,...

It would seem that dogs, in addition to being man's, are also best friends with goats and deer. Odin, a loyal, headstrong Great Pyrenees who guards his owner's goat herd, refused to leave their side even when fierce wildfires...

Devastating wildfires have blazed through Portugal, Canada, and Siberia this summer - with some people beginning to wonder if climate change will make such destructive fires normal...

by Judith Curry The climate change debate has entered what we might call the “Campfire Phase”, in which the goal is to tell the scariest story. – Oren Cass (twitter) David Wallace-Wells has a recent cover story in NYMagazine: ...

100,000 tires caught fire in arid Odessa, Texas earlier this month. The blaze was too much for local volunteer firefighters to extinguish as the isolated area's closest fire hydrant is four miles away. So the Environmental...