Officials finished investigating the fire that burned about 1.5 acres near Chautauqua Park in Boulder on Saturday without determining a cause, officials said Thursday. Wildland firefighters and Open ...

Lightning-sparked fires can be a big deal: The Canadian wildfires of 2023 generated nearly 500 million metric tons of carbon emissions, and lightning-started fires burned 93% of the area affected.

In recent years, millions of people across the US have seen distant wildfires cause bad air quality in their local communities. As climate change makes hot, dry weather patterns more frequent, the ...

The number of wildfires across Wales this year has exceeded the total amount for any year since 2020.

A wildfire that damaged and destroyed hundreds of structures in Ventura County was likely caused by wind-whipped debris from an earlier fire that started days earlier, arson investigators announced ...

In a windowless, warehouse-sized lab on campus, a team of CU Boulder researchers huddle around two wind tunnels—long metal tubes that blow air currents at controlled speeds. Laura Shannon, a graduate ...

Wildfire smoke is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths each year and will do more harm to U.S. residents by midcentury than any other threat driven by climate change, including extreme heat.

California wildfires have become particularly devastating in recent decades, but their origins vary. By Orlando Mayorquín Reporting from Los Angeles The Palisades fire, which killed 12 people and ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) For many of us who lived through the fires, it was a traumatic experience that also ...