FIRESTORM

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Huge fires rage in western US, Canada
Jul 14, 2021 (AFP)
Large areas of California were placed on red alert as several conflagrations continued to burn. The so-called River Fire had still not been brought under contro...
Patients turn into victims of killer fire in Iraq that sparked fury
Jul 13, 2021 (AFP)
The colourful blankets strewn across the blackened debris of the temporary quarantine facility at Al-Hussein Hospital in Nasiriyah were the last tangible marker...
Goats: unlikely allies in California's fight against wildfires
Jul 12, 2021 (AFP)
Goats are an unlikely but increasingly popular weapon in California's fight against the wildfires that rage through the western US state every year. On a recent...
Dozens of wildfires under control in Greece
Jul 11, 2021 (AFP)
Holidaymakers and locals were among 500 people who fled Niborio village on Evia island after a large blaze ripped through a forest on Saturday. "The fire with t...
Third C-130 tanker plane arrives to fight wildfires in western US
Jul 07, 2021 (UPI)
The help was requested by the U.S. Forest Service, an agency of the Agriculture Department, and the plane was dispatched from Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., the ...
Cyprus to compensate families of Egyptian victims of wildfire
Jul 07, 2021 (AFP)
The cabinet approved a budget of over 5.2 million euros ($6.1 million) to compensate people who lost their homes and businesses in the blaze, including families...
Cyprus says huge forest fire 'under full control'
Jul 05, 2021 (AFP)
The blaze, fanned by strong winds, broke out Saturday and swept through parts of the Troodos mountain range, leaving four Egyptian labourers dead, before being ...
Algeria hit by wave of fires; Cyprus blaze 'under control'
Jul 05, 2021 (AFP)
The official APS news agency reported officials at Khenchela in the Aures massif as saying the flames destroyed thousands of trees of different species. More th...
Canadian military on alert as wildfires rage
Jul 04, 2021 (AFP)
At least 174 fires were active in the western province of British Columbia, 78 of them sparked in the last two days, officials said. Most were caused by intense...
Approximately 1,000 evacuated as Canadian fires engulf town
Jul 01, 2021 (AFP)
The province of British Columbia has recorded 62 new fires in the past 24 hours, premier John Horgan told a press conference. "I cannot stress enough how extrem...
Mountain fires burning higher at unprecedented rates
Jun 18, 2021 (SPX)
"Climate change and drought conditions in the West are drying out high-elevation forests, making them particularly susceptible to blazes," says lead author Moha...
Drought-hit 'tinderbox' California braces for fires in months ahead
Jun 02, 2021 (AFP)
The former police officer still struggles to hold back tears when talking about the blaze that claimed dozens of lives and engulfed 95 percent of his community'...
Greek firefighters begin to control forest fire near Athens
May 23, 2021 (AFP)
No injuries have been reported so far in Greece's first big forest fire of the summer, but around a dozen houses have been destroyed or damaged and villages and...
'Ecological disaster' feared as Greece battles forest fire
May 22, 2021 (AFP)
The fire, which broke out late Wednesday in the Geraneia mountains some 90 kilometres (55 miles) west of the capital, is "one of the biggest in the past 20 to 3...
Greek villages evacuated as forest fire rages
May 20, 2021 (AFP)
Six villages and two monasteries were evacuated after the fire broke out on Wednesday evening near the village of Skinos on the Gulf of Corinth, some 90 kilomet...
Hot summers, intense burn seasons seed 'zombie' fires: study
May 19, 2021 (AFP)
Normally fires in Arctic regions are caused either by lightning strikes or humans but recent years have seen increasing reports of smouldering soil that sparks ...
California sequoia still smoldering after 2020 fires
May 06, 2021 (AFP)
"Scientists and fire crews were surveying the effects from the 2020 Castle Fire in Sequoia National Park, when they observed a still smoldering and smoking gian...
Humans were altering ecosystems with fire some 92,000 years ago
May 05, 2021 (UPI)
Analysis of stone artifacts and paleoenvironmental data -- detailed Wednesday in the journal Science Advances -- suggests fire use by early humans prevented reg...
Wildfire smoke trends worsen for western U.S., study says
Apr 30, 2021 (UPI)
University of Utah researchers on Friday published a study in Environmental Research Letters showing that trends in poor air quality events will affect an area ...
Wildfires offset impact Arctic forests have on offsetting carbon emissions
Apr 29, 2021 (UPI)
Scientists, along with NASA and the US Geological Survey, previously concluded global warming and climate change are stimulating the growth of plants throughout...
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