Forest owner wants to put burned acreage back into carbon offset market, but critics skeptical. Alex Baumhardt. Tue, January 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM UTC. 5 min read.

Burned trees surround a portion of Forest Service Road 46 at the boundary of Willamette and Mount Hood national forests. The road is open to non-motorized traffic after years of closure from ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. — It was a single lightning strike, deep in the heart of the forest. When he saw the smoke, Robert Mutch knew it was trouble. “I was just kind of watching it with dread ...

The wildfire broke out Monday in the area of Coopers Road. Forest fire officials say the fire burned 246 acres.

Almost every year since 1990, the study found, grass and shrub fires burned more land than forest fires did, and they destroyed more homes, too. Grasslands and . shrublands.

MacCarthy and colleagues calculated that the forest burned totaled 29,951 square miles (77,574 square kilometers), which is six times more than the average from 2001 to 2022.

The researchers spotted birds in the severely burned patches that didn’t occur in the unburned ones, including the indigo bunting, chestnut-sided warbler and eastern towhee.

The New Jersey Forest Fire Service said Sunday that “a fireworks device” set alight in the Wharton State Forest late on the Fourth of July started the fire. 3 ...

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (AFP) – Historic forest fires in Brazil last year scorched through an area larger than the size of Italy, recording a burned area some 60 percent higher than average of ...