The risk to firefighters isn’t just from breathing wildfire smoke – it’s also in the chemicals that get on their clothes and filter through to their skin.
The US had been reducing surface-level ozone, a harmful pollutant and the main component of smog, but that changed as wildfire activity picked up around 2015.
Wildfires in Colorado are reshaping landscapes and visitor habits.
This spring has been a busy one for New Hampshire’s wildland firefighters. The drought that made last summer the driest in 130 years has kept soils and forests parched into this spring, the conditions contributing to wildfires that have burned dozens of acres in central New Hampshire to the North Country in recent weeks. The […]
HART’S LOCATION — A forest fire totaling about 20 acres burned across steep mountainside terrain near Arethusa Falls in Crawford Notch State P…
CONCORD — The N.H. Forest Protection Bureau has announced that, despite several strong snowstorms across New Hampshire this winter and some ra…
HART’S LOCATION — A forest fire totaling about 20 acres burned across steep mountainside terrain near Arethusa Falls in Crawford Notch State P…
For decades, wilderness lands have been left largely unaltered by human activity. But those places are still changing, and keeping them wild and special may require action, not inaction.
CONWAY — The Conway Scenic Railroad caused the series of brush fires broke out near the North Conway strip Aug. 13, the state of New Hampshire…
CAMPTON — The White Mountain National Forest has implemented fire restrictions as of Monday in response to ongoing drought conditions, which h…
