The brush fire in the pine barrens this weekend ignited in a part of Suffolk County with a history of fires and flare-ups — to some degree a natural part of the ecosystem but also exacerbated ...

The pine barrens are a "fire dependent ecosystem ... The region is home to birds, small mammals and deer. Since this fire was at the beginning of spring, "when everyone is starting their ...

Gathered round Martha’s Pond in New Jersey’s iconic Pine Barrens, students in Claude Epstein’s environmental science class ...

(dramatic music) (birds tweeting ... (calming music) One of the earth's imperiled habitats is the pine oak barrens, a biome based on dunes and sandy soil. The barrens support jack pine, red ...

Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency as state agencies responded to fires in the Pine Barrens, a wooded area near commuter towns east of New York City. She warned that homes ...

A brush fire is ripping through Long Island, New York. The fire broke out in the Pine Barrens near Westhampton. It is spreading along the Sunrise Highway. A brush fire is ripping through Long ...

Wildfires periodically sweep through the Pine Barrens, an ecosystem that depends ... Drones were mobilized to get a bird’s-eye view of the fires, which stretched in a seven-mile radius in ...

The fires were declared 100% contained on Monday. A New York resident making s'mores in their backyard is suspected of accidentally igniting a series of wildfires over the weekend that swept ...

A New York resident making s'mores in their backyard is suspected of accidentally igniting a series of wildfires over the ...

Long Island firefighters plunged their off-road trucks straight into the heart of raging wildfires that erupted in the Pine Barrens on Saturday, battling intense flames and thick smoke as they ...