The Winnebago County Board of Supervisors is working to assess the cost of the Mount Valley Township fire last spring and ...

Most of the Carolina Forest wildfire remains contained —and soaking rains on March 10 helped — but state officials say the ...

A peat fire in Sumatra, Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. The case for protection is even more urgent because threats to peatlands appear to be increasing. Tropical peatlands are still ...

We need to focus on preventing that peat from burning in the first place, by re-wetting peatlands.” The researchers found that the UK’s ‘fire season’ - when fires occur on natural land ...

Peat soil, dry vegetation and often isolated locations are some of the reasons why fighting wildfires in certain areas of the ...

VLADIMIR, August 21. /TASS/. A peat fire has been extinguished in the Gus-Khrustalny district of the Vladimir Region, the regional Emergencies Ministry told TASS on Sunday. "The peat fire in Gus ...

Peat is employed for fuel in the greater part ... In the heat of summer, although we never need any fire in our rooms, we often want hot water for tea, coffee, and similar purposes ; flat irons ...

THE forest peat fire that broke out at Compartment Eight of the Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve has been put out. “We received a call alerting us about a fire at about 10.30pm on Friday night ...

A study entitled 'The Submergence of Wetlands' by Pantau Gambut presents the threat of flooding in peatlands area in ...