Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery moves our understanding of when humans started making fire back by 350,000 years.

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution.

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

Evidence uncovered in a field in Suffolk, England indicates that ancient humans intentionally harnessed fire more than 350,000 years earlier than previously believed. According to a British Museum-led study published on December 10 in the journal Nature,

The study, published in the journal Nature, is based on a years-long examination of a reddish patch of sediment excavated at a site in Barnham.

When Dragon Bravo ignited, in Grand Canyon National Park, officials decided to let it burn. Then the fire spread out of control.

The human use of fire, attested by evidence from Africa, goes back around 1.6m years. But, hitherto, the oldest signs of deliberate fire-setting by striking pyrite with flints, unearthed in France, are from 50,000 years ago. The East Farm pyrite does thus seem the oldest evidence to date of the creation of fire from scratch. ■

With more than 152 wildfires suppressed and thousands of acres burned amid Virginia’s fall fire season, the Virginia Department of Forestry (DOF) is warning of ongoing fire risk heading into

The £597,000 bill for attending the two incidents was made up mainly of staff costs (£290,929) and the cost of support from neighbouring fire services (£227,251) with food and welfare (£23,096) and incidental costs for supplies, damaged equipment, and vehicles (£55,762) also appearing on the bill.

The 59-year-old man was struck by a falling tree Sunday night while fighting a wildfire near the New South Wales town of Bulahdelah that had razed 3,500 hectares (8,650 acres) of woodlands and destroyed four homes over the weekend, Rural Fire Service Commissioner Trent Curtin said.

Pollution from fires, intensified by rising temperatures, is on track to become one of America’s deadliest climate disasters. Source: Nature Note: Midcentury projection uses a moderate warming scenario (SSP2-4.5). Fire-smoke models were constructed ...