Cape York Indigenous native title holders have inked an Australian first carbon credits profit sharing deal with a farmer ...

Imagine a landscape shaped by fire, not as a destructive force but as a life-giving tool. That's the reality in Australia, where Indigenous communities have long understood the intricate relationship ...

A debate continues among scientists over whether tree composition in forests in eastern North America historically have been influenced more by climate or by cultural burning, which is the intentional ...

The NSW Cultural Fire Strategy has set a clear timeline to better resource and support Indigenous-led cultural burning.

Where others might see only catastrophe, Don Hankins scans fire-singed landscapes for signs of renewal. Hankins, a renowned Miwkoʔ (Plains Miwok) cultural fire practitioner and scholar, has kept an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leaf Hillman, a member of the Karuk Tribe, above a former reservoir on the Klamath River in Hornbrook. (Brian van der Brug / Los ...

Indigenous burning practices in Australia once halved shrub cover, reducing available fuels and limiting wildfire intensity for thousands of years, but the removal of these practices following ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In recent years, California has seen the devastating consequences of ignoring the wisdom that Indigenous people have carried for a ...

This report was supported by the Pulitzer Center. As Canada deals with the same wildfire problems plaguing the western U.S. — fires of increasing intensity burning larger areas as the climate and ...

Kayley Walker is no stranger to fire. It’s a force that’s painted all parts of her life — like as a kid, when she’d watch her grandfather light piles of dried sticks and brush at the family ranch.

A sense of frustration sweeps across Peter Dixon's face as he lights a handful of bracken and lays it on a patch of dry grass. "This is the first burn we've done here since the Tathra wildfires back ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has allocated millions of dollars to a program that funds Native American “food sovereignty,” owl counting and “cultural burns,” in which tribal groups use traditional ...