A mystery unfolded in a Florida neighborhood when a huge chunk of ice fell from the sky and struck a home, along with part of the roadway.

The analog is that humanity's fire practices have become so vast, especially in recent centuries, that we are creating the fire equivalent of an ice age ... to fully include human fire practices ...

Land clearing and logging slash fed serial conflagrations, which blew up in the late 19th and early 20th centuries—the waning decades of the Little Ice Age. This havoc inspired the federal ...

the disruption of human life and habitats. The result is a pyrogeography that looks eerily like an ice age for fire. You have a maturing Pyrocene. If you doubt it, just ask California. Stephen Pyne is ...