When the Manteno fire whistle sounded in the late afternoon of Tuesday, Jan. 30, 1951, volunteer firefighter Paul Maisonneuve ...

This fight ended with an agreement from the municipality that the County will protect the Waring’s Creek watershed and ...

For the almost 520,000 Americans who will undergo treatment this year, the process leaves little room for a full life. An innovative new device could change everything.

The Fresno community gathered in the thousands on Monday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. in an annual march. Wendy McCulley, chief engagement and external partnerships officer for Fresno Unified ...

The response from local officials was consistent: municipal water systems just aren’t designed to fight such intense and prolonged wildfires. But as climate change makes what were once-in-a ...

So, while there is plenty of salt water around, the water source is often not the best to fight flames. In some neighborhoods around Los Angeles, fire hydrants—designed to fight single house ...

Cairns is embracing post-World War II era dentistry where forceps for pulling teeth are favoured over fluoride in the town’s water supply ... s dentistry from the 1950s. It’s not today ...

Are we still in time to prevent a tipping point? These are the critical questions grappled with in openDemocracy’s ‘The Time of Water’ documentary, which follows two of the Sacred Headwaters ...

As multiple deadly wildfires burn across Los Angeles and hundreds of thousands of residents flee their homes, the lack of water is impeding firefighters' efforts to fight the flames. More than 27,000 ...

Los Angeles locals shared videos of desperate firefighting planes filling up with salt water from the Pacific Ocean to battle the wildfires raging nearby. Although fires are usually battled with ...

As multiple deadly wildfires burn across Los Angeles and hundreds of thousands of residents flee their homes, the lack of water is impeding firefighters' efforts to fight the flames. More than ...

Thus, fire crews were forced to turn elsewhere for water to fight the blaze: the ocean. Video footage showed an air tanker scooping up water from the Pacific Ocean, near Will Rogers State Beach, and ...