Earthen homes present an opportunity for building sustainably, but first we need to overcome several institutional barriers.

"I think that's why veterans make very good firefighters...we're public servants. We go into the military because we love our ...

While evacuation orders remained in place for areas around the immediate perimeter of the fire, other nearby neighborhoods were reduced from evacuation orders to warnings, while warnings were ...

The fire was being fanned by strong, dry Santa Ana winds that were racing through the area, pushing a vast pall of smoke and dangerous embers ahead of the flames -- sparking fears that it could ...

The latest blaze - dubbed the Hughes Fire - started late on Wednesday morning near Lake Castaic, around 40 miles from the Eaton and Palisades wildfires that devastated parts of LA earlier this month.

"I turned the corner and it's, like, smoking everywhere," she said ... the community will have sympathy for her and the other fire victims. "I’m a single mom of two kids. I’m starting over.

Update: As of late Thursday morning, local authorities had lifted the remaining Ventura County evacuation warnings related to the Hughes Fire. Ventura County authorities downgraded an evacuation ...

LATEST Jan. 23, 8:45 a.m. The Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake in northern Los Angeles County continued to burn Thursday morning, but locals and first responders had some reason for optimism despite ...

Entire families wiped out, last words of victims revealed after the fire in northwestern Turkey killed 76 Musa Serdar Terzioglu/Anadolu via Getty Twenty children were among the 76 fatal victims of ...

“So I went and opened the blinds and you just see little flurries and fire everywhere. I screamed at my boyfriend, ‘Get up, we gotta get out of the house!’” She and others watched as ...

“So I went and opened the blinds and you just see little flurries and fire everywhere. I screamed at my boyfriend, ‘Get up, we gotta get out of the house!’” She and others watched as ...

Istanbul, Turkey — A fire engulfed a hotel at a ski resort in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday, killing at least 76 people and injuring at least 51 more, the interior minister said. Witnesses said ...