The source of more than half of all wildfires in the Western US remains unknown, so the US Forest Service has teamed up with ...

Researchers and startup founders are rushing to develop and deploy drones, sensors and satellite imagery analysis that they ...

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"Marketplace" host Kai Ryssdal spoke to Dargan Marquis, senior wildfire adviser to the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and ...

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President Trump has deployed 1,500 active-duty troops to the U.S. border with Mexico. But a nearly 150-year-old law, the ...

GoFundMe, the crowdfunding website where people can quickly raise money to help others, has generated more than $100 million ...

Much of the mythology around the LA fires revolves around who or what started the deadly conflagrations. It's an ...

The first house in the Facebook post is not located in Southern California. The residence survived a wildfire in Washington state in 2012, according to media reports from that time. Fact check: Which ...

The boom in AI has led to a boom in AI data centers. Several readers asked us to VERIFY how these hubs use water and ...

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