FIRESTORM

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Lebanon pine forest blaze begins wildfire season
Jun 08, 2022 (AFP)
The fire in the northern Dinniyeh region broke out on Tuesday night, prompting the army and volunteer firefighters to scramble to save one of the Middle East's ...
Residents return home as Athens firefighters bring blaze under control
Jun 05, 2022 (AFP)
"At this point, the fire has been demarcated, the residents are back in their houses," deputy civil protection minister, Evangelos Tournas, told a news briefing...
Greece evacuates Athens suburb under wildfire threat
Jun 04, 2022 (AFP)
The Greek Civil Protection agency issued an emergency appeal via SMS for people to leave Ano Voula as the flames reached homes. Officials reported no casualties...
Fires surge in May in Brazilian Amazon, Cerrado
Jun 01, 2022 (AFP)
Fueling fears over the future of the world's biggest rainforest, the national space agency, INPE, said satellite data showed a total of 2,287 fires in the Brazi...
Barcelona recruits sheep, goats to fight wildfires
May 24, 2022 (AFP)
Since April, Barcelona city hall has employed 290 sheep and goats to munch undergrowth at the Collserola National Park on the outskirts of Spain's second-larges...
Pakistan TikTok star faces backlash over forest fire video
May 20, 2022 (AFP)
The user "Dollyofficiall" posted a clip of herself walking playfully in a silver ball gown in front of a burning hillside with the caption: "Fire erupts whereve...
Violent wildfire destroys luxury California homes
May 12, 2022 (AFP)
The blaze, which erupted on Wednesday, grew rapidly to engulf the community of Laguna Niguel, near Los Angeles. Around 1,000 homes were evacuated as the fire fl...
Giant New Mexico fire rages as drought-hit US West braces for summer
May 06, 2022 (AFP)
The so-called "Hermits Peak Fire" has torn through 168,000 acres at the southern end of the Rocky Mountains, destroying around 170 properties and forcing the ev...
Studies find the seeds of a forest's renewal after wildfire, drought
May 03, 2022 (SPX)
"Knowing which species produce more seeds and in which habitats helps us better understand how to manage for seed trees and optimize forest regeneration, especi...
Meet the forest microbes that can survive megafires
Apr 26, 2022 (SPX)
Fires of unprecedented size and intensity, called megafires, are becoming increasingly common. In the West, climate change is causing rising temperatures and ea...
Wildfire in US west kills 2: police
Apr 14, 2022 (AFP)
Almost 6,000 acres (2,400 hectares) have been charred since the fire erupted in the Sierra Blanca mountain range in New Mexico on Tuesday. The blaze is one of a...
U.S. fires four times larger, three times more frequent since 2000
Mar 17, 2022 (SPX)
"Projected changes in climate, fuel and ignitions suggest that we'll see more and larger fires in the future. Our analyses show that those changes are already h...
Wildfire Workshop Accelerates NASA Firefighting Solutions
Mar 13, 2022 (SPX)
NASA has long been involved in wildfire management through the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) using space-based technologies and other systems. Now, the Aero...
California fire led to spike in bacteria, cloudiness in coastal waters
Mar 04, 2022 (JPL)
For a new study, published in Nature Scientific Reports, scientists combined satellite imagery, precipitation data, and water quality reports to assess two stan...
World must brace for more extreme wildfires: UN
Feb 23, 2022 (AFP)
Even the most ambitious efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions will not prevent a dramatic surge in the frequency of extreme fire conditions, a report commiss...
Forest fire rages across Kenya national park
Feb 06, 2022 (AFP)
The blaze broke out on Saturday night, according to an official working for Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), the government body in charge of national parks, who s...
Environmental alert issued in Bogota due to Amazon fires
Feb 06, 2022 (AFP)
Wind carried smoke from several fires blamed on armed groups some 350 kilometers (220 miles) to the northwest, all the way to the Colombian capital. Bogota Mayo...
A human fingerprint on the Pantanal Inferno
Feb 04, 2022 (JPL)
But in both 2019 and 2020, with the region gripped by severe drought, those refreshing floodwaters never came. Come June and July, fires did instead. They burne...
Firefighters battle forest blazes in Argentina
Jan 14, 2022 (AFP)
Nearly 100 firefighters and support staff, reinforced by planes and helicopters, were fighting the largest of the fires in the Nahuel Huapi National Park, the f...
First Responder Ember Drone Seeks National Science Foundation Funding
Jan 01, 2022 (SPX)
One tree on fire and where's FRED? Brad Bartz, the inventor said, "One tree on fire in 80 mile per hour winds spewing firebrand embers being captured by our pat...
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