Alaska Fire Science Consortium

08-24-20 12:04 newscast

A new wildfire near Circle was attacked by smokejumpers and water scooping aircraft Tuesday. The Alaska Fire Service reports that the Birch Creek Fire is…

07-10-20 12:04 PM newscast

Alaska’s wildfire situation heightened over the weekend, as the season’s first major thunderstorms resulted in thousands of lightning strikes. Alaska Fire…

04-15-20 12:30 PM newscast

Warming increases fire danger in the far north …A year ago, more than a thousand Canadian firefighters were struggling with a monster of a wildfire that…