A Reddit user in Britain found an area of the forest floor that was mysteriously smoking, with no fire in sight. User u/TomakaTom shared a video of the strange sight, which showed the ground charred ...

(BCN) — The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District, the Contra Costa Water District and outside vendors started flooding the area of the Marsh Fire on Friday in an attempt to finally extinguish ...

"It's a very stubborn fire," said Steve Hill, the public information officer for the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District. "It's a peat fire, which means that it's burning in a combination of ...

The blanket of wildfire smoke that spread across large parts of the U.S. and Canada in 2023 was a wake-up call, showing what climate change could feel like in the near future for millions of people.

PITTSBURG (KPIX) -- Firefighters are using a rare strategy to fight a stubborn smoky fire that won't die down in East Contra Costa County. The so-called Marsh Fire has been burning for more than six ...

In regions of northern Mali, the parched ground is punctuated with smoking, glowing holes that reach 750C at their rims. Locals have long attributed the appearance of these holes and the superheated ...

The scars of burning on deep peat in the Yorkshire Dales National Park Some shooting estates in England burn deep peat moorland in protected areas despite a government ban, say the RSPB and Greenpeace ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Wildfires burning large swaths of Russia are generating so much smoke, they're visible from space ...

Here’s a sentence for you: The Arctic is burning. Yes, that Arctic—the traditionally cold and wet one, large swaths of which are being consumed by an astonishing number of wildfires, from Russia to ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Pulp and paper giants APP and APRIL continue to source their raw material from plantations located on carbon-rich peatlands in Indonesia. The burning of these peat forests prior to planting accounts ...