In this photo taken with a drone provided by the Bootleg Fire Incident Command, a pyrocumulus cloud, also known as a fire cloud, is seen over the Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon on Wednesday, July 14, ...

Blazes that generate such stormy conditions can be nearly impossible to put out and pose special dangers to firefighters. By Austyn Gaffney Officials said on Thursday they feared as much as half the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Early in the evening of August 12, 2017, heat and smoke from an intense wildfire ...

These wildfire-induced thunderstorms have been occurring above blazes in the United States and Canada this summer. How do they form, and why are they significant? Read on... As wildfires have sent ...

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Aircrew and support from the 146th Airlift Wing at Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, California accomplished 4 retardant drops between November 13-14, 2018 over the Woolsey Fire just a few ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pyrocumulonimbus derives its name from the Ancient Greek word pyr, meaning "fire," and cumulonimbus, also known as a thunderhead ...

The wildfires currently tearing through Australia aren’t just unprecedented—they’re catastrophic, as one fire researcher put it. Climate change and fierce heat waves have dried the landscape into ...

The smoke plume (gray) is feeding the pyrocumulonimbus cloud (white). “PyroCb are like large chimneys, transporting a large quantity of smoke into the stratosphere,” explained Dr. David Peterson. When ...