Humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than believed, archaeological study finds

A team of researchers led by the British Museum has unearthed the oldest known evidence of fire-making, dating back more than ...
IFLScience

How Is It Possible To Create Fire Underwater?

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NPR

Fire-making materials at 400,000-year-old site are the oldest evidence of humans making fire

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...
Live Science

'We are creating the fire equivalent of an ice age': Humans have plunged Earth into the 'Pyrocene'

Los Angeles is burning, but it isn't alone. In recent years, fires have blasted through cities in Colorado, the southern Appalachians and the island of Maui, along with Canada, Australia, Portugal and ...
AZFamily

What you should know about creating a fire emergency plan

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — As firefighters continue to battle the devastating California wildfires, many homeowners may wonder what to do if a fire breaks out. Arizona’s Family spoke to a Valley firefighter ...
Los Angeles Times

A ‘Roomba for the forest’ could be SoCal’s next wildfire weapon

BurnBot is a huge, Zamboni-like vehicle that executes precisely controlled burns of flammable grass alongside buildings and roadways. It’s designed to create fire breaks — lines of charred land — that ...