After more than a century of fire suppression in California’s forests, mounting evidence shows that frequent fire — through practices like prescribed fire or Indigenous cultural burning — can improve ...

Forest advocates have long warned that burning forest biomass to make energy — touted as a climate solution by the forestry industry — releases more carbon emissions than coal does per unit of ...

Have you ever driven down the road and seen a mountain of smoke rising from a nearby field?  Unless you were in the middle of ...

The Lao government has announced stricter measures to prevent forest fires and reduce PM2.5 pollution during the ...

As new laws take effect for Californians this year, one rule affecting farmers stands out: the near-total ban of agriculture burning. For more than a century, farmers have torched piles of aging or ...

Prescribed burning was down by roughly half this year on the Deschutes National Forest compared to a year ago and well below the 10-year average, raising questions from local officials about ...

Starting this week, San Joaquin Valley farmers are banned from burning agricultural waste in the field, a legislative mandate aimed at improving air quality that has been decades in the making. The ...

The Pollution Control Department has ordered stepped-up surveillance of open burning as the seasonal risk of haze and dust ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A statewide ban on all open burning was lifted in every county in North Carolina on Wednesday. The Burn Ban, issued by the N.C. Forest Service, went into effect on March 21 due ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WECT) - The statewide burn ban and several local county burn bans will be lifted today. The N.C. Forest Service has lifted the burn ban for open burning in all state counties as of 8 ...