Along the roads through Yosemite National Park, a bend can reveal a field of bare, burned trunks standing where a living forest once grew. It is a scene wildfire researcher Mitchell Hung has ...

Elizabeth Goldman is a co-director of Global Nature Watch, previously known as Global Forest Watch, a database measuring forest loss that’s frequently cited in Mongabay reporting. She joins this ...

Peatland fires in Indonesia pose a major threat to habitats, wildlife and people. That risk is exacerbated by the country's periodic El Niño warming phases, which bring prolonged drought. Massive ...

Re “Bigger and Hotter Fires Are Erasing America’s Great Forests” (news article, Aug. 23): The loss of our beautiful ponderosas, which like the sequoia have adapted to fire over millions of years, is a ...