A state plan to clear white pines in the Manuel F. Correllus Forest on Martha's Vineyard has caused debate. The state has ...

Controlled or prescribed fires have been used on Long Island since the 1995 Sunrise Fire near Westhampton to improve habitats ...

Quite the opposite, ecologists argue: Long Island’s pine barrens have burned too little in recent years. If wildfires must be ...

Cape Cod teeters on a precipice, its sandy soils parched by a Level 2 Significant Drought persisting since August 2024, with rainfall deficits of 3.8 to 6 inches threatening the ...

The Lower Hudson Valley and other parts of New York are under an early burn ban ahead of a statewide ban that starts Sunday, March 16.

By Stephen J. Kotz A series of small brush fires that hopscotched their way from Manorville east culminated in an explosive ...

A recent study combining data from more than 76,000 surveys from 35 monitoring programs across the country found butterfly ...

Law enforcement agencies are still interviewing all 911 callers to rule out any possibilities, but they "strongly feel that ...

That fire was extinguished by about 10:30 a.m., but burning embers ... Saturday after four wind-driven fires spread across large swaths of Long Island’s Pine Barrens region, prompting closures to the ...

Officials say brush fires that burned on New York’s Long Island over the weekend, injuring two firefighters and sending large ...