FIRESTORM

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Nepal hit by worst wildfires in almost a decade
Apr 06, 2021 (AFP)
Air quality in the capital Kathmandu was ranked on Tuesday as the worst in the world, according to monitoring site IQAir, with some international flights delaye...
Arctic lightning strikes expected to double in frequency as climate warms
Apr 05, 2021 (UPI)
In a new study, scientists analyzed trends in the frequency of lightning strikes at latitudes above 65 degrees North over the last decade. In 2010, there were 1...
Russia forecasters warn over Siberia forest fires
Mar 23, 2021 (AFP)
Devastating forest fires have ripped across Siberia with increasing regularity over the past few years, which the country's weather officials and environmentali...
Australia fires spewed as much smoke into stratosphere as volcano: study
Mar 19, 2021 (AFP)
The stratosphere is the second layer of the atmosphere, right above the troposphere -- where we live. "For us it was a huge surprise" to see such a significant ...
Forest fires in Argentina leave 7 injured, 15 missing
Mar 10, 2021 (AFP)
Some 200 people had to be evacuated and around 100 homes were damaged by fire in an area of forests and lakes popular with tourists close to the Andes mountain ...
Huge fire engulfs Chinese high-rise
Mar 09, 2021 (AFP)
Authorities were investigating the cause of the blaze, which broke out early in the morning in Shijiazhuang city near Beijing and spread rapidly, eating into th...
Fire poses long-term risk to forest carbon sink: study
Feb 25, 2021 (AFP)
As Earth continues to heat due to ever higher concentrations of greenhouse gases in its atmosphere, both the number of fires, as well as how fiercely and long t...
Firefighters hold off bushfire near Australia's Perth
Feb 04, 2021 (AFP)
At least 81 homes have been destroyed in the blaze at the Perth Hills, on the eastern fringes of Australia's fourth-biggest city, with surveys of areas burned e...
Brazil wildfires surge again in 2020
Jan 03, 2021 (AFP)
There were a total of 222,798 wildfires across Brazil in 2020, the highest number since 2010, according to the Brazilian space agency, INPE. That included more ...
Storms help Australia contain UNESCO heritage island fire
Dec 14, 2020 (AFP)
The fire on the world's largest sand island, off Australia's east coast, destroyed large swathes of the isle's forests before heavy downpours arrived over the w...
Below-average fires in 2020 despite monster blazes: EU
Dec 14, 2020 (AFP)
A year of data collected by the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) showed that carbon emissions from fires were set to be lower than previous years...
Australia bush fire rips through heritage-listed island
Nov 30, 2020 (AFP)
The fire on the world's largest sand island, off Australia's east coast, has been raging for more than six weeks and is consuming large swathes of the island's ...
Climate change and 'atmospheric thirst' to increase fire danger and drought in NV and CA
Nov 22, 2020 (SPX)
In a new study published in Earth's Future, scientists looked at future projections of evaporative demand - a measure of how dry the air is - in California and ...
Climate change worsening Australia's extreme weather: scientists
Nov 13, 2020 (AFP)
The government's top science body, CSIRO, and its Bureau of Meteorology released a report Friday outlining a sobering future for the vast continent nation that ...
Record fires ravage Brazil's Amazon and Pantanal regions
Nov 02, 2020 (AFP)
The Amazon rainforest has been described as the Earth's "lungs" due to its role in producing almost 10 percent of the world's oxygen. The Pantanal further south...
Australia bushfire inquiry warns 'compounding disasters' to come
Oct 30, 2020 (AFP)
Following devastating 2019-2020 blazes that killed 33 people and burned an area the size of the United Kingdom or Ghana, a Royal Commission told Australians "wh...
Post-wildfire hazards: Toward an understanding of when and how slope failure may occur
Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)
Debris flows are fast-moving slurries of soil, rock, water, and vegetation that are especially perilous because they usually occur without any warning. Some deb...
Thousands flee homes near LA as wildfire rages
Oct 27, 2020 (AFP)
The so-called Silverado Fire erupted early in the morning in the foothills of Irvine, about 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles, and quickly sprea...
South America ravaged by unprecedented drought and fires
Oct 24, 2020 (AFP)
Experts say the wildfires in a region that spans Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay -- especially the region between the Paraguay, Parana and Uruguay river...
Scorched jaguar returns home after Brazil fire ordeal
Oct 22, 2020 (AFP)
Members of the veterinary team that treated the jaguar's scorched paws with ozone and laser therapies released him Tuesday at the same spot where he was rescued...
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