Once again, we are experiencing a summer of devastating fires, with repercussions that will last decades or even longer. One of the lesser-known ways in which wildfires wreak havoc is the fact that ...

MARIPOSA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – After wildfires ravaged the forests during the French Fire in Mariposa, nearby residents recounted seeing swarms of black beetles. Many assumed them to be bark ...

The Australian fire beetle is attracted to freshly burnt wood. Experts also call this pyrophilia ("love of fire"). This behavior is not very common in insects. Merimna atrata however has a good reason ...

The Roaring Fork Valley forest has largely escaped the bark beetle outbreaks that have plagued many parts of the Colorado mountains in recent years, but that could change because of the Lake Christine ...

Criminal cases can often only be solved using forensics to piece together physical evidence and reconstruct what happened. Prof. Dr. Helmut Schmitz from the Institute of Zoology at the University of ...

Inside university laboratories and government research facilities across the country, scientists are playing with dozens of variables — mixing and matching and rearranging — to gain a better ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Millions of dead trees plague the Sierra National Forest as firefighters work to save those that are still living from the Creek Fire. "There are estimates that right now ...

A firefighting helicopter on a mission over the Beaver Creek Fire. The 36,724 acre Beaver Creek fire in Northern Colorado has been burning for more than eight weeks. Firefighters say it's so different ...

MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KMPH) - When you think of things that could make wildland firefighters’ lives and jobs harder, what comes to mind? High temperatures? Dangerous terrain? How about having to fend ...

The Roaring Fork Valley forest has largely escaped the bark beetle outbreaks that have plagued many parts of the Colorado mountains in recent years, but that could change because of the Lake Christine ...