Research and experiments on airdrops in France began with the first LABEX (LArgage Bombardier d’eau EXperimentation) experiment in 1995.

Skimmer airtankers, which scoop water from lakes, are commonly used in areas with abundant waterbodies such as Eastern Canada ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s push to change a decade-old air pollution rule was recently advanced in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

The nation’s worst Labor Day wildfire tragedy occurred in Oregon in 2020, the deadliest wildfire event in state history.

The supply of chemicals for aerial fire suppression across the US has been locked in with the announcement by US Secretary of ...

The U.S. government has filed two lawsuits against a utility company in California, blaming it for starting two deadly ...

The Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index launched by the Canadian Forest Service in the 1960s is now adapted for use in numerous regions, including parts of Australia, Europe and Asia. The United ...

The settlement addresses costs after three fires in southern California started by electrical equipment burned 378,000 acres in 2017 and 2018 destroying over 2,600 structures ...

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Republican representatives from Minnesota and Wisconsin recently sent a formal letter to Canada, demanding that the nation “deal with” its wildfires and the smoke produced by them. The letter, signed ...

Canada’s 2025 wildfire season is off to a busy start as nearly 100 out-of-control fires triggered states of emergency and multiple evacuations on Friday. The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center on ...