YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — National park officials in California believe that a wildfire that's been burning for a week in Yosemite National Park may have been caused by humans. The wildfire ...
It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...
Billy Joel famously sang, we didn't start the fire - it was always burning since the world's been turning. But that's not entirely true. Humans do start fires to cook, to heat, to gather around.