Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools -- it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of people in the Ice Age. However, it is puzzling that hardly any ...

In a nutshell Stone Age humans mastered fire technology during Earth’s harshest climate period 23,000 years ago, creating ...

When the catastrophic Los Angeles fires broke out, John Volckens suspected firefighters and residents were breathing toxic ...

The Senate's Fix Our Forest Act proposal will expedite forest restoration and management in the most threatened landscapes.

UCLA’s Climate & Wildfire Research Initiative (CWRI) is launching a new Urban Water Supply + Fire working group to function ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from ''The Matrix,'' scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire off ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists at Brookhaven National Lab uncovered a new phase of matter dubbed "half ice, half fire" ...

Researchers estimated that smoke from wildfires and prescribed burns caused $200 billion in health damages in 2017, and that these were associated with 20,000 premature deaths. Senior citizens were ...

Poppy seeds — a staple on bagels and in pastries — are at the center of a stunning public health scare that has already cost ...

Research published early online in American Meteorological Society journals discusses weather's changing impact on nighttime wildfires, venues most exposed to severe weather in the U.S., the bumpiest ...

Dr. Atchley offers insight into his team’s research methods like using Artificial Intelligence data mapping to better ...