Nevada authorities arrest a 47-year-old woman for allegedly starting one of the blazes.

Under the most extreme conditions, a wildfire can stop behaving like a fire and start behaving like a storm. The largest and ...

A dramatic new experiment suggests one of nature's most destructive forces could become an unexpected cleanup tool. According to new research from Texas A&M University, giant fire tornadoes could be a ...

Dramatic video captured during the Widemouth 2 Fire south of Kanosh showed a towering fire tornado spinning through the flames as the wildfire rapidly spread ac ...

Our oceans are under constant threat. In addition to plastic pollution, fentanyl-laden sewage, and skinny-dippers slathered in reef-harming sunscreen, oil spills are notorious marine devastators. They ...

A fire whirl, or fire tornado, rises from flames near Wofford Heights, Calif., in August 2021. David McNew/ We often think ...

While they look like tornadoes, fire whirls are generated by the fire itself, not by a storm system. Officials warn that fire whirls can be dangerous and complicate firefighting efforts by throwing ...

What appeared to be small fire tornadoes were spotted Friday night as the Palisades Fire blazed through California's San ...