Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Don Gentry, chairman of the Klamath Tribes, the federally recognized Native American nation located in Oregon and California, ...

Bushfires cause catastrophic biodiversity loss across Australia. In the Black Summer of 2019–20 alone, 103,400 square kilometers of habitat went up in flames. The irony is, laws to protect native ...

The impact of fire on land, the environment, health and communities, a topic often discussed in California, is often dominated by expressions of sensationalism. Photos: Oakland Museum of California ...

An eastern fence lizard basking in the sun feels a small red ant walk over its back. Not hungry, it ignores the insect. Soon there are lots of ants crawling up its legs, biting the scales that usually ...

Research from Brazil shows that tree species adapted to extreme heat may be key to reforesting areas affected by fires. The ongoing research focuses on plants native to the Cerrado savanna, a biome ...

In September 2013, a few months after the Springs Fire blazed through the Santa Monica Mountains in Southern California, a team led by Justin Valliere started laying out plots to study how invasive ...