Over the past several days, the world has watched on in shock as wildfires have devastated large parts of Los Angeles. Beyond ...

Earth is a uniquely fire planet, and humanity a uniquely fire creature, and the ecology of their interactions is both ancient and profound. Fire is an ecological shape-shifter. As a reaction ...

The rapid urbanization of California's fire-prone zones, driven by large-scale land developments known as McMansionization, ...

What's happening in Los Angeles is another reminder of what life will be like, even in Wisconsin, under a changing climate.

In this month’s massive Los Angeles fires, so far 24 people have died, thousands of structures have been destroyed and ...

Our wildfire risk in the islands is significantly less than Southern California, Maui, Eastern Washington and many other ...

The man who was responsible for a fuel spill that fueled a boathouse fire at the Clover Island Boat Launch in Kennewick in ...

This involves a range of tools, including field and laboratory studies, remote sensing and process-based modeling. Faculty in fire ecology spans many areas of expertise, including ecology, hydrology, ...

(Courtesy Antone Perucci) This fire ecology research suggests that anthropogenic, or human-made, fires would create a landscape dominated by open, prairie-like vegetation, while those fires ...

Fire has played a major role in shaping the world's grasslands and forests. Attempts to eliminate it have introduced problems fully as serious as those created by accidental conflagrations ...

This involves a range of tools, including field and laboratory studies, remote sensing and process-based modeling. Faculty in fire ecology span many areas of expertise, including ecology, hydrology, ...