A geographer from the University of Leicester has produced for the first time a map of the scorched Earth for every year since the turn of the Millennium.

Could combustion without flames be used to build industrial gas turbines for power generation that are much more efficient than current models and produce almost no polluting emissions? Researchers in the Middle East provide a possible answer in the current issue of the Inderscience publication, International Journal of the Environment and Pollution.

At around seven this morning there was a huge explosion at a fireworks factory at Al Quoz industrial area in Dubai, not far from Sheikh Zayed Road.

South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue is a metropolitan fire brigade, which functions under the control of South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Authority. Its primary role its to help the community of South Yorkshire in the prevention and eradication of fires and the protection of the public within its jurisdiction. It covers the county area of the South Yorkshire region, encompassing the four districts of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield.

A fire broke out in Ludwigshafen leaving Kamil Kaplan, 32, no choice, but to release his 8 month old nephew, Onur Calar, from a window on the third floor by throwing the little boy from the window.

Sentences have been handed down in a 2004 fire that was Paraguay's deadliest.

The Monte Carlo Hotel Casino in Las Vegas is on fire. It appears a good portion of the facade on the front of The Monte Carlo Hotel Casino in Las Vegas is on fire. The hotel is being evacuated.

According to scanner frequencies of the Buffalo, New York fire department, smoke has been reported on at least five floors at the northeast side at One HSBC Center in downtown Buffalo. The call cam in around 10:50 p.m. (Eastern Time).

A fire in the Borrabbin National Park between Southern Cross and Coolgardie Western Australia, so far 29,000 hectares and killed three truck drivers when the convoy they were travelling in was engulf by the flames.

Emergency services have evacuated several homes amid fears a burning grain silo could explode, near Tamworth, in northern New South Wales. Thermal imaging equipment is being used to determine the extent of a fire in a grain silo near Tamworth, which has forced the evacuation of surrounding area residents.

A huge fire has broken out in Hackney Wick eastern London, England, on part of the 2012 Olympic Games site scheduled to be the location of the handball courts.

Tahoe Fire: Due to over-vegetation, only 29% of our usual snow pack, over-crowding, and many other factors... the dreaded time bomb we've all been warned about has been ignited at South Lake Tahoe.