A fire alarm jolts you from your office desk, and you head for the nearest exit. But what if the closest exit has already ...

A new conceptual framework for incorporating the way plants use carbon and water, or plant dynamics, into fine-scale computer models of wildland fire provides a critical first step toward improved ...

California’s fires are getting bigger and harder to predict. The only way to tame them may be to remake the landscape itself. At the height of California’s worst wildfire season on record, Geoff ...

Wildland fire is an important source of carbon and other pollutants to the atmosphere. Accurate datasets to spatially quantify carbon and trace gas emissions from fire are needed. Dr. Nancy French, of ...

Laura wrote about e-commerce and Amazon, and she occasionally covered cool science topics. Previously, she broke down cybersecurity and privacy issues for CNET readers. Laura is based in Tacoma, ...

Artificial intelligence is improving the accuracy of fire forecasts made by Europe’s top intergovernmental weather center. Traditional fire forecasts are largely based on weather models that predict ...

From fireworks to woodburning to modeling fire behavior, Jenna Sjunneson McDanold’s love of fire has fueled her growth as an artist and a mathematician. As part of her studies as mathematical modeling ...

Snowmass decided on Monday to pursue a model-focused approach to wildfire mitigation. The town directed staff to seek details on a wildfire modeling system of Snowmass Village from Dr. Hussam Mahmoud, ...