Ecological study recognizes a wide range of ecosystems with biological interactions often varying greatly among different ecosystems. The role of fire particularly differs dramatically from one ...

Rebuilding can be a chance to rethink things. By Emily Badger In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like possibility.

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 ...