FIRESTORM

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What we know about the fire 'pandemic' plaguing Brazil
Sep 19, 2024 (AFP)
From the Amazon rainforest to the Pantanal wetlands, flames have consumed millions of hectares of forest and farmland in recent weeks. Nearly two-thirds of Lati...
Brazil fires need harsher punishment: environmental police boss
Sep 18, 2024 (AFP)
Flames have ripped through vast areas of forest and farmland due to the country's worst drought in seven decades, which experts attribute to climate change. But...
'Never seen this': Portuguese village battered by wildfire
Sep 17, 2024 (AFP)
In the village of Busturenga, where the smoke was so thick it was hard in places to see more than a few dozen metres, anxious residents sought on Monday to resc...
Farmers fret over fires and drought; as fires approach Brazil's capital
Sep 16, 2024 (AFP)
"The rearview mirror of the water tanker shriveled up" from the intense heat, recalled the farmer from Barrinha, at the heart of a major agricultural area 340 k...
EU sends back-up to Portugal to fight forest fires
Sep 16, 2024 (AFP)
A string of blazes that broke out over the weekend in the Aveiro region have injured 12 firefighters, including two seriously, and forced around 70 local reside...
Brazil vets heal burns of jaguar burned in Pantanal fire
Sep 15, 2024 (AFP)
While the animal is expected to heal, her home in the Pantanal continues to burn. The Pantanal, south of the Amazon in Mato Grosso do Sul state, has the world's...
Canada tourism fears bigger, badder wildfires coming
Sep 11, 2024 (AFP)
The nation has been ranked among the top 12 destinations worldwide for its stunning displays of nature and cultural mosaic. But 2023 saw megafires scorch a reco...
Brazil's Lula visits Amazon as fire 'pandemic' rages
Sep 11, 2024 (AFP)
Brazil has been parched by a historic drought that experts link to climate change, sparking fires that have spread more easily and produced clouds of smoke that...
Wildfires tear through western US during heatwave
Sep 09, 2024 (AFP)
A blaze burning out of a control near Los Angeles sparked mandatory evacuations as it tore through swathes of tinder-dry California countryside around popular t...
Smoke from Brazil fires clouds major cities, neighboring countries
Sep 09, 2024 (AFP)
Karla Longo, a researcher at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), said that satellite images showed that 60 percent of Latin America's largest coun...
Firefighters, planes tackle blaze in German mountains
Sep 07, 2024 (AFP)
The blaze began in the Harz Mountains a day earlier, and prompted the evacuation of about 500 hikers and other tourists from the area. About 250 firefighters we...
Brazil braces for more fires amid extreme low humidity
Sep 05, 2024 (AFP)
Flames reached a protected forest on the outskirts of the capital Brasilia, which was enveloped in smoke for the second time in two weeks, and where it has not ...
Athens faces new dangers as forest fires edge closer
Aug 29, 2024 (AFP)
Thousands were forced to flee their homes as the massive blaze raged out of control for three days towards the capital earlier this month, swallowing up houses ...
Brazil waging 'war' on wildfires in crowded Sao Paulo state
Aug 26, 2024 (AFP)
Following a crisis meeting of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's cabinet, Environment Minister Marina Silva announced a "war against the fire" and said feder...
Brazil waging 'war' on wildfires in crowded Sao Paulo state as officials say under control
Aug 26, 2024 (AFP)
Since last Thursday, some 2,700 fires had been reported in the vast agricultural state, with more than 40 municipalities placed on high alert. More than 20,000 ...
Greece hit by '50 percent more' wildfires than last year
Aug 26, 2024 (AFP)
After its earliest-ever heatwave and warmest winter on record, Greece's summer has been marked by a series of blazes capped by a vast wildfire that devastated a...
Saving the vanishing forests of Iraq's Kurdistan
Aug 21, 2024 (AFP)
The nursery in Sarchinar in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah is part of efforts to battle the destructive effects of deforestation in the region. "Almost 50 per...
Brazilians 'struggling to breathe' as Amazon burns
Aug 21, 2024 (AFP)
"We are struggling to breathe," said 30-year-old teacher Tayane Moraes, one of some 460,000 people who live in the city near the border with Bolivia. On Tuesday...
France wildfires force thousands to flee; Portugal's Madeira fire still raging
Aug 19, 2024 (AFP)
Some 3,000 holiday makers were evacuated from a camping site to a municipal building in the coastal town of Canet-en-Roussillon, near the city of Perpignan, in ...
Homes evacuated as wildfires engulf southern French town
Aug 18, 2024 (AFP)
A total of 600 firefighters, 11 water bombers and two helicopters have been deployed to contain the blaze, local civil security authorities said on X. The fire,...
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