Forest fires are usually a natural phenomenon. They are common in forested areas of the US, Canada, Australia and parts of South Africa. Wildfires, as they are called, are part of the complex ecosystems functioning in specific forested areas....

Nine people are missing feared dead after a helicopter carrying firefighters crashed on its way to a forest fire in northern California.

The FireEye, pictured here with its creator Owen Bawden, was created for the Rural Fire Service. It is a UAV (unmanned air vehicle) that they can use to fly over fires and forests and brush that have sparked up into a fire. This tool is going to...

Forest fires are increasingly causing devastations across the world, leaving the authorities with no option than to watch the huge fires swallowing acres of these already ailing greeneries. If you are not, the nature has it all equipped for...

While the forest fire that raged across Southern California grabbed plenty of headlines, partially because of their enormity & partially as it hit Malibu. Somehow everything done in little Malibu is a big news. It seems it is virtually the...

When you try to play poker with nature, it lashes back at you. That is one lesson man must learn before it’s too late. Only yesterday was I discussing with my friends about should man be trying to control nature. Some of them felt that we...

Fires started by peasant farmers have spread to over 100,000 hectares of forest in Paraguay. The farmers follow the age old practice of clearing woods and renewing grounds for the new agricultural season. While this is an annual event in...

Eighty-nine new fires continue to rage destruction churning everything to white ash, even as firefighters and water-bearing planes have begun arriving from other European nations. These extensive Greek fires, which have resulted in a national...

At this time of the year, when most countries are suffering from flash flooding, South Africa is struggling with floods on one-hand and forest fires on the other. Unusual environment conditions propelled the forest fires to spread fast,...

Humans known for their notorious deeds just to make their selfish ends meet, has been mercilessly and indiscriminately plundering the planet’s resources. Here is another astounding evidence of human perditions - that they have widely burned...