Slash-and-burn utilizes fire to clear lands for cattle grazing and crop cultivation, and research found these fires accounted for 14% of the forest loss between 2012 and 2017, per Mongabay.

In regions where fire is a natural phenomenon, organisms have adapted to cope with periodic fires. Terrestrial mammals and birds certainly die in forest and prairie fires, but recovery to normal ...

They found that fuel aridity — both the amount and the dryness of flammable vegetation — was the biggest driver of forest fire severity. They also observed that the summer months were more ...

BLACK FOREST, Colo. (KRDO) - At least 24 people have died after a string of wildfires sparked in the Los Angeles area. As headlines hit the nation, it's brought fire danger to the forefront of ...

The National Meteorological Institute (IMN) states that this phenomenon especially impacts the northern ... any spark could rapidly turn into a forest fire, causing significant harm to plants and ...

In regions where fire is a natural phenomenon, organisms have adapted to cope with periodic fires. Terrestrial mammals and ...

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 ...