A Reddit user in Britain found an area of the forest floor that was mysteriously smoking, with no fire in sight. User u/TomakaTom shared a video of the strange sight, which showed the ground charred ...

The largest fires on Earth aren’t the monsters that have been burning across California and Australia, but the zombies smoldering in the soils of the Arctic and tropics. Undead fires live on in peat: ...

Raging fires are generally bad news, but smoldering peat fires can do more environmental damage and present unique challenges for those trying to extinguish them. Researchers in the UK have come up ...

The blanket of wildfire smoke that spread across large parts of the U.S. and Canada in 2023 was a wake-up call, showing what climate change could feel like in the near future for millions of people. A ...

The Winnebago County Board of Supervisors is working to assess the cost of the Mount Valley Township fire last spring and summer. The fire was fueled by peat, an accumulation of partially decayed ...

The researchers say this is a big step in tackling smouldering peat fires, which are the largest fires on Earth. They ignite very easily, are notoriously difficult to put out, and release up to 100 ...

"It's a very stubborn fire," said Steve Hill, the public information officer for the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District. "It's a peat fire, which means that it's burning in a combination of ...

An October 2019 peat fire in Pekanbaru, Indonesia. During Indonesia’s annual dry season, hundreds of fires are often illegally ignited to clear forests in the islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan, where ...