Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A brush fire that began Thursday deep in a eucalyptus grove near Kaala Road has spread into nearby koa forests, officials said.

LISBON — Before it gained global infamy as the “road of death,” Estrada National 236-1 was a bucolic drive, winding in a succession of lazy curves through the thickly wooded hills of central Portugal.

For three days in mid-September, wildfires rapidly tore through parts of Portugal, turning the sky a hellish, smoky red against the rolling green hills in the north. In central Portugal, a blaze ...

Across the American West, what looks like a leafy success story of fast-growing shade and windbreaks is doubling as a vast, accidental fuel depot. In trying to green bare hillsides and feed a hungry ...