A new study presents the first large-scale analysis of fire patterns in West and Central Africa's wet, tropical forests. The number of active fires there typically doubled over 18 years, particularly ...

By Liz Kimbrough Relics of ancient wet forests stretch across the coast of Queensland state in Australia. In a landscape made patchwork by agriculture, volunteers, community groups and Indigenous ...

Some reports and popular books, such as Bill Gammage's Biggest Estate on Earth, have argued that extensive areas of Australia's forests were kept open through frequent burning by First Nations people.

A hidden camera focused beside a damp forest stream records a fire salamander moving across wet rocks close to the water. Its ...

Clear-cut swaths of the Amazon rain forest in Quiandeua, Brazil, are often planted with manioc, or cassava, a shrub grown for ...

The author should be contacted directly for interview requests. WASHINGTON — A new study presents the first large-scale analysis of fire patterns in west and central Africa’s wet, tropical forests.

Some reports and popular books, such as Bill Gammage’s Biggest Estate on Earth, have argued that extensive areas of Australia’s forests were kept open through frequent burning by First Nations people.

A new study presents the first large-scale analysis of fire patterns in west and central Africa’s wet, tropical forests. The number of active fires there typically doubled over 18 years, particularly ...