Their journey in Australia started at least 65,000 years ago. Direct evidence of cultural burning traces back at least 11,000 years in the Top End, although it may have begun much earlier.

Crews have begun a long-awaited project to extinguish a coal seam fire that has been burning underground on Marshall Mesa, south of Boulder, Colorado, for over a century. The fire, a remnant of ...

Brendan Camp, MD, is a double board-certified dermatologist at MDCS Dermatology and Clinical. Itching (technical term: pruritus) is a common condition, affecting roughly 20 percent of adults ...

Hundreds of ballots were destroyed or damaged in fires set Monday at two ballot drop boxes in the Pacific Northwest – and investigators are searching for a person they believe is responsible ...

Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and canoes. Conditions grew so dire in the following months ...

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Evan Neal might have angered the football gods somewhere along the line. The benched former first-round draft pick, who has been champing at the bit for another opportunity, could play his first ...

This Victorian-era disease is caused by tiny mites that burrow into the skin, causing itching and a rash that usually spreads across the whole body. The rash can affect any part of the body ...

A new medically challenging case warns that, for those with allergies and asthma, health problems from burning incense can be a significant risk to adults and children. In many cultures ...

Nagano Fat Burning Tonic is a natural solution that is claimed to promote healthy weight loss in the body. The creator of the supplement says that this solution contains a proprietary blend of ...

It represented a hopeful sign that cultural burning might be increasingly used as a tool for disaster mitigation. After all, McAllister isn’t the minister for Indigenous affairs or the ...

"No one let me see my brother Shaban," he said. "My heart was burning." Their father, Ahmed al-Dalu, his face covered in burn dressings and his right eye swollen shut, said in an interview with Al ...