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 ...

Canada's 2023 wildfire season burned more than 18.5 million hectares (45.7 million acres), an area larger than Greece. As ...

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 ...

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 ...

With wildfires growing more destructive both in the United States and around the world, UB researchers have conducted one of the most extensive evaluations to date of artificial intelligence-based ...

The wildfire burned through pine trees only a few miles away from Martin City, Montana, just outside of Glacier National Park. It was growing steadily, but fire managers had reason to think the ...

Global warming is here. As anticipated for more than 50 years now, the temperature and levels of atmospheric CO2 have increased. Modelling forest fires and forecasting fire behaviour is a complex ...