A mesmerizing pure blue flame that spins like a top could be the clean burn needed to mop up oil spills in oceans, lakes and rivers. The "blue whirl" was accidentally discovered by a team of American ...

Engineers have discovered a brand-new, bright-blue fire tornado that behaves unlike any flame ever created. When a fire burns yellow, it's unclean. The warm colors are signs of an incomplete ...

It might sound like a bad movie, but extreme wildfires can create their own weather – including fire tornadoes. It happened in California as a heat wave helped to fuel hundreds of wildfires across the ...

Saturday's wildfire produced a 30,000-foot-high plume that spit out lightning strikes, while the temperature in Death Valley surged to 130 degrees (54º C), possibly setting a world record Author of ...

Firefighters in British Columbia have released jaw-dropping video of a “fire tornado” recorded at one of the out-of-control wildfires burning throughout the province’s interior. The phenomenon was ...

As if they aren’t already facing enough, firefighters in California also could encounter fire tornadoes — a rare but dangerous phenomenon in which wildfires create their own weather. The National ...

Researchers spent months combing through evidence to classify Canada’s first fire-generated tornado back in August For the first time, researchers with Western University’s Northern Tornadoes Project ...

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Utah isn’t exactly known for tornadoes. Since 2000, only two significant tornadoes had hit the Beehive State. But that changed last weekend, when a rare fire tornado brought destructive winds up to ...

As if they aren’t already facing enough, firefighters in California also could encounter fire tornadoes — a rare but dangerous phenomenon in which wildfires create their own weather. The National ...