Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Authorities battling a series of large wildfires in the Los Angeles area have employed a bright red fire retardant to tamp the ...

Like flees and rats that carried the bubonic plague to Europe from Asia in the fourteenth century, two of the four fire ant species arrived in the American south from southern Latin America. They did ...

More than 50,000 gallons of pink and red fire retardant rained from the sky near Beacon Hill on Tuesday to slow the spread of the Upriver fire. The mixture of phosphate salts and clay coated trees, ...

Deadly red fire ants may "invade" Britain, researchers have warned after the first official sighting of colonies in Europe. Entomologists have found 88 red fire ant nests spread over five hectares ...

Red imported fire ants are a particularly nasty type of ant because they are aggressive, and inflict painful stings that may be life threatening. That’s in addition to being a serious threat to ...

Authorities battling a series of large wildfires in the Los Angeles area have employed a bright red fire retardant to tamp the flames, leading to dramatic images of the material blanketing scores of ...