This true-color image shows a large fire burning on the western coast of Scotland.
Published May 5, 2011
Wildfires are burning across a region struck by extremely hot, dry conditions.
Published Aug 4, 2017
Thick plumes of smoke bellow from two large wildfires in southeastern Georgia in this true-color image from March 25, 2011.
Published Mar 26, 2011
Among the byproducts of the pandemic and social distancing is a drop in forest management fires on federal lands.
Published May 18, 2020
Smoke is visible as far away as New Zealand.
Published Jan 28, 2019
It is not even summertime, but already the United Kingdom has seen a significant number of wildfires.
Published May 6, 2019
Scientists have found a way to detect nighttime fires even sooner, when they are still relatively small.
Published Apr 7, 2017
Hundreds of fires veiled northern Indochina in smoke as the traditional land-use burning season neared its peak.
Published Mar 19, 2014
Peru’s intense fire season in 2016 saw burning extend into 11 of the country’s protected areas.
Published Feb 10, 2017
The new instrument should become a primary resource for monitoring of biomass burning and for fire management.
Published Jan 26, 2012
Bushfires continued in early December to produce smoke along the the country's eastern coast.
Published Dec 4, 2019
October 2018 brought an increase in fire detections, which might be associated with a weak El Niño.
Published Oct 29, 2018
In the last week of June 2008, California was the focal point of national fire activity. Over the first weekend of summer, record-breaking lightning activity in the state triggered hundreds of wildfires.
Published Jun 27, 2008
Dry conditions, heat, and gusty winds combined to make October 17 a very dangerous fire day in New South Wales, Australia.
Published Oct 18, 2013
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