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Wildland fires estimated to release more organic air pollutants
Jan 01, 2026 (SPX)
The study, published in Environmental Science and Technology, focuses on volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and on intermediate- and semi-volatile organic compou...
Multi core wildfire soot particles found to boost global warming impact
Jan 01, 2026 (SPX)
An international team including researchers from the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong, the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel, Japan, and South Korea used fie...
Grief, trauma weigh on survivors of catastrophic Hong Kong fire
Dec 24, 2025 (AFP)
Yip, 68, is among thousands grieving the 161 killed at the Wang Fuk Court housing complex, a disaster few could imagine happening in one of Asia's safest and mo...
Tundra fire surge reshapes Arctic landscape
Dec 18, 2025 (SPX)
An international team from Germany, Poland, the United Kingdom, Romania and the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Toolik Field Station investigated long-term fire...
Hot winds fan dozens of bushfires across eastern Australia
Dec 06, 2025 (AFP)
More than 50 bushfires were burning in New South Wales on Saturday afternoon, the state's Rural Fire Service said, although the vast majority were considered "u...
Hong Kong leader says 'independent committee' to probe fire
Dec 02, 2025 (AFP)
The fire engulfed seven residential towers under renovation in the north of the city last week, killing at least 156 people, displacing thousands more and fuell...
Hong Kong arrests suspects as fire death toll tops 150
Dec 01, 2025 (AFP)
The staggering death toll, which police raised to 151 on Monday after more bodies had been found, has prompted outpourings of grief across the Chinese finance h...
Hong Kong's bamboo scaffolding under scrutiny after fatal fire
Nov 28, 2025 (AFP)
Hong Kong is one of the world's last remaining cities to use the frames for modern construction and building repair, a practice which dates back centuries in Ch...
Algerian firefighters battle wildfire near Algiers after families evacuated
Nov 14, 2025 (AFP)
Unseasonably high temperatures and wind gusts topping 60 kilometres per hour pushed the fires to spread quickly overnight Thursday, local reports said. "Some ho...
Who is setting fire to the Amazon?
Nov 06, 2025 (AFP)
He helps clears pastures cheaply, but also leaves blackened earth and charred trees in his wake -- threatening the planet's largest tropical forest. In northern...
'Bigger, hotter, faster': extreme blazes drive rise in CO2 fire emissions
Oct 16, 2025 (AFP)
Infernos that ravaged huge areas of Canada's boreal forest and swept through the dry forests and vulnerable wetlands in South America drove global fire CO2 emis...
Questions loom over Albania's forests after devastating fires
Oct 11, 2025 (AFP)
In some of the worst blazes to ever hit Albania, nearly 60,000 hectares (nearly 150,000 acres) -- or around two percent of Albania's landmass -- burned when bla...
Rising wildfires spur comeback for Canadian water bomber
Oct 02, 2025 (AFP)
Then demand waned and production stopped, but with major blazes intensifying globally, the water-scooping marvel is making a comeback. At a production site in C...
Wildfire-induced thunderstorms recreated in Earth system models for first time
Sep 30, 2025 (SPX)
The research, published September 25th in Geophysical Research Letters, represents the first successful simulation of these wildfire-induced storms, known as py...
Wildfire in Namibia's flagship park contained, says minister
Sep 29, 2025 (AFP)
The blaze at Etosha National Park, one of Africa's largest game reserves, broke out on September 22 and spread rapidly due to high winds and parched vegetation....
Toxic homes a lasting legacy of Los Angeles fires
Sep 24, 2025 (AFP)
Tests have found heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and zinc, as well as volatile organic compounds like cyanide and furfural that have left her home uninhabitabl...
Canada wildlife decline 'most severe' in decades: WWF
Sep 22, 2025 (AFP)
"On average, every species group included - birds, fish, mammals, and reptiles and amphibians - is trending in the wrong direction," the WWF said in a statement...
Experts warn deaths from wildfire smoke to surge in decades ahead
Sep 18, 2025 (AFP)
It adds to warnings of the significant and growing health impacts from climate-stoked wildfires, which belch out smoke that can drift across continents and ocea...
Wildfires break out in Portugal, Spain; McConaughey unveils 'urgent' California fire film 'The Lost Bus'
Sep 06, 2025 (AFP)
The biggest fire raged in Seia, central Portugal, where 600 firefighters were deployed to tackle the flames, fanned by strong winds, and several roads had to be...
Climate change made heat behind deadly Iberian fires 40 times more likely: study
Sep 04, 2025 (AFP)
The Iberian Peninsula saw unusually high temperatures throughout August, with thermometers topping 40C in many areas. The persistent heat fanned wildfires -- ma...
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