The reason the fire was so fierce was its location: heathland. Lowland heath is a widely cherished wildlife habitat, but it is also incredibly flammable, as its vegetation cover consists largely ...

There are fewer than 600 acres of heathland left in Worcestershire, compared to 20,000 in the 18th Century, the trust said A wildlife charity is hoping to buy more than 100 acres of land to return ...

How the centuries turn and change the landscape. Two hundred years ago, Surrey would have been best described as ‘heathy Surrey’, as at least 20% of the county was heathery, wide-open, almost treeless ...

Flames leaping and acrid smoke billowing into the sky, a huge fire rips through bone dry heathland near the south coast. In scenes resembling a disaster movie, the inferno laid waste to a ...

Dorset Council is removing hundreds of invasive pine trees from Avon Heath Country Park to help rejuvenate the heathland. The ...

Several fires on heathland have been put out by firefighters. Crews from Essex Fire and Rescue Service attended a field fire near Princess Margaret Road, East Tilbury, at 14:09 BST on Tuesday.

A heathland reserve on the New South Wales south coast has come back to life after being scorched by bushfire in August 2018, and local land carers are praising the role of fire in maintaining the ...