A veteran engineer and a young conductor try frantically to stop a half-mile-long freight train carrying enough combustible liquids and poisonous gas to wipe out a nearby city.
As the Rim Fire menaces Yosemite, tree experts expect the big trees to survive. Full-grown sequoias are adapted to survive even the hottest wildfires. They have fibrous, fire-resistant bark that can grow up to two feet thick.
In the hot, expansive Karakum desert is a hole that has been on fire for 40 years. Known as the "Gates of Hells" by locals, the crater can be seen glowing for miles around.
A power outage cut electricity to millions of people up and down the American southwest, prompting some residents to bond in ethereal fire lit settings.
Fire ants have evolved so remarkably that they can self-assemble into structural tools utilized by the entire colony, including a buoyant raft, to ensure it stays intact.
Third base coach Mike Brumley pushed the envelope a bit too far, trying to score Wilson from first base. Center fielder Reggie Willits fired a bullet to the cutoff man and Wilson was a dead duck.
Third base coach Mike Brumley pushed the envelope a bit too far, trying to score Wilson from first base. Center fielder Reggie Willits fired a bullet to the cutoff man and Wilson was a dead duck.
Third base coach Mike Brumley pushed the envelope a bit too far, trying to score Wilson from first base. Center fielder Reggie Willits fired a bullet to the cutoff man and Wilson was a dead duck.
At the Fire Lab in Missoula, Montana, researchers reverse-engineer spreading fires using wind tunnels and giant combustion chambers. They're finding that the physics behind fire is often counterintuitive.
At the Fire Lab in Missoula, Montana, researchers reverse-engineer spreading fires using wind tunnels and giant combustion chambers. They're finding that the physics behind fire is often counterintuitive.
At the Fire Lab in Missoula, Montana, researchers reverse-engineer spreading fires using wind tunnels and giant combustion chambers. They're finding that the physics behind fire is often counterintuitive.
At the Fire Lab in Missoula, Montana, researchers reverse-engineer spreading fires using wind tunnels and giant combustion chambers. They're finding that the physics behind fire is often counterintuitive.
The Kamchatka Peninsula, one section of the intermittent chain of volcanoes called the Ring of Fire, has seen the most explosive eruptions of any place on Earth.
As the Rim Fire menaces Yosemite, tree experts expect the big trees to survive. Full-grown sequoias are adapted to survive even the hottest wildfires. They have fibrous, fire-resistant bark that can grow up to two feet thick.
As the Rim Fire menaces Yosemite, tree experts expect the big trees to survive. Full-grown sequoias are adapted to survive even the hottest wildfires. They have fibrous, fire-resistant bark that can grow up to two feet thick.
As the Rim Fire menaces Yosemite, tree experts expect the big trees to survive. Full-grown sequoias are adapted to survive even the hottest wildfires. They have fibrous, fire-resistant bark that can grow up to two feet thick.
A rash of storms, drought and fires in recent years has ignited the contemplation of a new school of design, built around climate change, that would cut across cities and shorelines, homes and commercial buildings.
A rash of storms, drought and fires in recent years has ignited the contemplation of a new school of design, built around climate change, that would cut across cities and shorelines, homes and commercial buildings.
A rash of storms, drought and fires in recent years has ignited the contemplation of a new school of design, built around climate change, that would cut across cities and shorelines, homes and commercial buildings.
A rash of storms, drought and fires in recent years has ignited the contemplation of a new school of design, built around climate change, that would cut across cities and shorelines, homes and commercial buildings.
President Yudhoyono ordered disaster officials to extinguish the fires on Sumatra Island that have created vast palls of smoke. Singapore's environmental crisis has seen the acrid smoke cloak residential blocks.