Dry lightning strikes have been blamed for causing a number of bushfires across Victoria. But what's the difference between ...

As Tasmania battles more than a dozen fires sparked by a band of dry lightning strikes, some in high-value wilderness areas, ...

Multiple bushfires continue to burn out of control across regional Victoria as families start to count the cost of destroyed ...

Salt River Project, with aid from corporate, government and nonprofit partners, is thinning Arizona forests to prevent wildfires and save water.

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, ...

Firefighters were desperately trying to stop a cluster of fast-moving blazes in southeast Australia on Tuesday, as thousands ...

Loggers who accidentally started a fire that burned more than 33,000 acres east of Kamas last fall will pay a maximum of ...

Forest fires have traditionally been classified as ... Where fires occur frequently from lightning, nature is prepared. The dominant plants are fire-resistant or even fire dependent.

BHUBANESWAR: As an unusually early summer has raised temperature by two to three degrees Celsius above average in Odisha ...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah's committee approves ₹3,027.86 crore for disaster mitigation projects in lightning-prone and ...