Changing weather patterns mean burning forests present an ever-bigger threat to communities around the world. What new ...

Two aerial firefighting planes the Oklahoma Forest Service called in from a company based in Montana lent a hand tackling a wildfire in Logan County on Monday.

At a contentious town hall Thursday night in Afton, Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., defended federal cuts, pledged to support ...

Initially, military planners recognized threats to their own ability to protect the nation. Over time, the U.S. military would come to see climate change as both a threat in itself and a threat ...

Federal firefighting on public lands in the U.S. works like this: Resources rotate as the fire season progresses regionally.

On Friday, wind gusts as strong as 85 mph resulted in widespread blowing dust in West Texas, some of which has now blown into Houston.

The Bitterroot National Forest is hitting the brakes on a 4-year-old proposal to use thinning and prescribed burning to ...

More than half a million acres in southwest Montana have been impacted by conifer expansion. It used to be that fires would ...

Melanie Mattox Green, who was fired from her land management and environmental planning job at the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest in Montana ... a fire breaks out now without these ...

The Bitterroot National Forest is hitting the brakes on a 4-year-old proposal to use thinning and prescribed burning to ...

Clare Boerigter, a science writer specializing in wildland fire, and Jonathan Coop, a forest ecologist with Western Colorado ...