Researchers have long grappled with the questions of when and how our prehistoric ancestors first learned to harness the ...

These control lines, according to a CAL FIRE factsheet on the 2021 Caldor fire, can be natural like rivers or man-made like dug-out firebreaks. “Containment is a measure of the amount of line ...

But it is essentially the energy released by the combustible house that is carrying the fire to the next one. So, you know, everything in a city we build. So we can, in principle, control all of that.

As a result, one of the direct evolutionary benefits of fire was the ability to derive more energy from food ... Intriguingly, humans are the only animals that know how to control and create fire.