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

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...

Uncontrolled fire whirls, or fire tornadoes, can be terrifying. But one type of fire whirl may be immensely beneficial to humanity. University of Maryland engineers discovered a "beautiful, swirling flame phenomenon" they...

Back in 2013, 19 firefighters died in Arizona because their emergency shelters didn't protect them. NASA scientists realized materials in a space project they were working on might be useful, so they teamed up with the U.S....

Back in 2013, 19 firefighters died because their emergency shelters didn't protect them. NASA scientists realized materials in a space project they were working on might be useful, so they teamed up with the U.S. Forest Service...

The lighting-caused forest fire blazing through the North Rim of the Grand Canyon doubled in size over the weekend. The Fuller Fire jumped from 5,940 acres to 13,382 on Monday, with zero containment to date. Dry and windy...

The American southwest is battling extreme temperatures and blazing wildfires. The National Weather Service issued heat advisories - and in some cases excessive heat warnings - in California, Arizona, and New Mexico as temperatures...

In a tragic start to the New Year, tens of thousands of people gathered to watch Dubai’s famed firework display but witnessed explosions of a different kind...

Adrian Bejan understands the shape of the perfect fire. And you can build one, right in your own fire pit. In a study published in Nature Scientific Reports, Bejan, a professor of mechanical engineering at Duke University,...

  On January 26, a gas pipeline exploded in Brooke County, West Virginia, sending an enormous fireball into the morning sky. Nearby residents watched in amazement, capturing snapshots and videos with their smartphones...