Three wildfires sparked Saturday in a southwestern Colorado forest, with two of the blazes combining to consume thousands of ...

Forest fires now burn 10 times more acreage annually than in 1985, while wildfire severity has gotten even worse. In California, 30 times more acreage burned from high-severity, forest-killing fires, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FIRE IN THE FOREST: Carolina Forest wildfire hasn’t grown, four aircraft now on scene HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — Check here for ...

Carter Evans has served as a Los Angeles-based correspondent for CBS News since February 2013, reporting across all of the network's platforms. He joined CBS News with nearly 20 years of journalism ...

After years of questionable policies, climate change and growing populations, wildfires have gotten worse in the western U.S., and around the world. That’s driven a push to use tools like thinning and ...

Humans have altered the forests of western North America markedly over the past several centuries. We’ve suppressed fire, harvested much of the old-growth trees, and built homes and communities within ...

The Northwest Forest Plan, adopted in 1994, helped quell mounting tensions between timber companies and environmentalists. It protected large swaths of old-growth forest in Washington, Oregon and ...

Video above: This video explains how to prepare for a wildfire emergency. (FOX 5/KUSI) — In a push to strengthen California’s forest resilience and wildfire preparedness, the California Department of ...

The fires raging around Los Angeles bring to mind another devastating U.S. fire that killed more than a thousand people on Oct. 8, 1871. The Great Chicago Fire? Right date, wrong event. I am referring ...