To plant more than 4,500 trees in one day, you don’t move like a gardener, you move like a machine. In a video viewed millions of times on social media, Leslie Dart walks across a desolate and burnt landscape in Saskatchewan. She plunges a small spade into the ground, levers open a hole, drops in…

In a top 100 ranking of poor air quality and pollution in cities around the world, Toronto ranked sixth place for unhealthy air Wednesday. The IQ Air Quality Index produces a daily live, major city ranking, and on June 28 at 7 p.m. ET, Toronto took one of the top spots on the list, with…

Lawmakers engaged in a heated debate over a resolution that would dictate strategies to mitigate the increasing threat of forest fires. The House Committee on Natural Resources convened on June 13 as Republicans and Democrats clashed over legislation regarding forest management. Democrats asserted that addressing climate change was the only answer to combating wildfires; Republicans…

Quebec’s natural resources minister says wilderness firefighters are now taking the offensive against the province’s forest fires instead of just reacting to the blazes. Maïté Blanchette Vézina says coordinated attacks against the fires are now possible due to reinforcements from other jurisdictions, including a team of wilderness firefighters from France. She says there are still…

Soldiers were set to arrive to help fight forest fires in Quebec Monday as the number of fires continued to rise. There were 164 forest fires burning in Quebec Monday, up from 155 the day before, Kateri Champagne Jourdain, the minister responsible for the province’s Côte-Nord region, told a news conference. At least 114 of…

The deputy mayor of a southern Newfoundland town says his community is running out of food as it remains cut off from the rest of the island due to the worst forest fires the province has seen in more than 60 years. Roy Drake said Monday he figures the three grocery stores in Harbour Breton,…

Energoatom, a Ukrainian regulatory agency that operates nuclear power plants in the country, warned on Monday that forest fires near Russian-held Chernobyl have raised radiation concerns. In a March 21 statement, the Ukrainian parliament said that at least seven different fires were spotted near the plant by satellite images of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-2 satellite….

Scientists studying forest density in the Sierra Nevada have found that trees there were scarcer but physically larger in 1911 than in 2011, meaning that “resilient” forests could be remarkably thin by today’s standards. “Our findings suggest forests need to be treated more intensively than is often done when just reducing fuels, particularly greater reductions…

With Northern California fires continuing to burn and devastate structures, the state imposed a mandatory one-year moratorium that prevents homeowner insurance cancellations and non-renewals following an emergency declaration on Sept. 20. Approximately 325,000 policyholders in 22 counties living within the perimeter or in zip codes of a declared wildfire disaster will benefit from the moratorium….

California’s wildfires are threatening to burn some of the state’s famous and gigantic groves of old-growth sequoias in Sierra Nevada, prompting officials to wrap them in aluminum foil insulation. Earlier this week, officials shared concerns that flames may continue to blaze through the area and reach the Giant Forest, and its grove of 2,000 trees, by Thursday, according to…