FIRESTORM

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Firefighters battle to save Mt. Wilson Observatory from California wildfire
Oct 14, 2020 (SPX)
This important work nearly ended in the Bobcat Fire, which at times came within 100 yards of the Mt. Wilson Observatory and MAFIOT facility. Due to the heroic e...
Fuels, not fire weather, control carbon emissions in boreal forest
Oct 13, 2020 (SPX)
In a large retrospective study that stretched across Canada and Alaska, the international team of researchers found that the carbon stored belowground in soil o...
Syria fires ravage livelihoods ahead of harvest
Oct 12, 2020 (AFP)
"I used to have 100 trees, but now nothing is left," said the 61-year-old farmer at his blackened olive grove in the western province of Tartus. "Everything has...
Three dead as forest fires burn in Syria, Lebanon
Oct 10, 2020 (AFP)
Syrian state television on Saturday morning broadcast scenes from the affected areas, where firefighters were working to extinguish the blazes. It said hundreds...
New Zealand firefighters beating forest blaze
Oct 07, 2020 (AFP)
The wildfire erupted in a mountain forest on the South Island in the early hours of Sunday morning and swept through the popular tourist spot of Lake Ohau, forc...
California wildfires turn beloved Napa wine spots to ash
Oct 01, 2020 (AFP)
California's Glass Fire turned much of that dream to ash, destroying a 3-star restaurant at Meadowood resort, torching wineries such as Chateau Boswell, and tai...
Fires spike in Brazil's Amazon, scientists say
Oct 01, 2020 (AFP)
The National Institute of Space Research (INPE) said satellite imagery showed an increase of 61 percent in the number of fires in September, compared to the sam...
Forest fire blazes near Ukraine front line, killing 9
Oct 01, 2020 (AFP)
Ukraine has sent 1,200 firefighters to battle the blaze which officials in one village near the frontline said was detonating unexploded shells previously fired...
Tens of thousands flee wildfires roaring through California wine regions
Sep 29, 2020 (AFP)
Under an orange sky and a sweltering heatwave, some of Napa Valley's best-known vineyards were consumed by an out-of-control blaze that raced through more than ...
Wildfires rip through California wine country, thousands flee homes
Sep 28, 2020 (AFP)
Under an opaque orange sky, trees and vineyards were consumed and houses devastated by the fire that had burned its way over more than 11,000 acres (4,500 hecta...
Chief Raoni condemns Bolsonaro 'lie' on Amazon fires
Sep 26, 2020 (AFP)
The far-right president sparked controversy Tuesday with a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in which he defended his environmental record and said ...
Rebuild or leave? Future uncertain for US communities in fire zones
Sep 23, 2020 (AFP)
With many insurers now refusing or charging exorbitant rates to cover at-risk houses, some homeowners are questioning what the future holds for their exhausted ...
'We're in unprecedented waters,' says California firefighter
Sep 20, 2020 (AFP)
For Darrell Roberts, a 20-year veteran firefighter in California, the more than two dozen major wildfires raging across the state and the unprecedented scale of...
California wildfire smoke blankets parts of Canada
Sep 18, 2020 (AFP)
Days have been spent smarting under a thick haze that has irritated eyes and throats, and sent asthmatics gasping for breath. It has also complicated Covid-19 t...
Race to rescue animals as Brazilian wetlands burn
Sep 17, 2020 (AFP)
Fernandes, 20, is part of a team of volunteers working to find and rescue jaguars wounded by the record-breaking blazes, which have burned through nearly 12 per...
As Brazil's wetlands burn, rain is 'only hope'
Sep 16, 2020 (AFP)
"It needs to rain. We've got low moisture, intense heat. With that combination, rain is our only hope," says Silva, even as new flames break out at the spot his...
California braces for high winds that could propel deadly wildfires
Sep 16, 2020 (AFP)
Governor Gavin Newsom said although firefighters had made progress in their battle to contain more than two dozen major wildfires, so-called Santa Ana winds cou...
As fires rage, Trump has head 'in the sand': LA mayor
Sep 14, 2020 (AFP)
"This is climate change, and this is an administration that's put its head in the sand," said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, speaking on CNN's "State of the U...
US gears for rising death toll in West Coast wildfires
Sep 12, 2020 (AFP)
A prediction of cooler weather offered some hope of respite in coming days, but the true scale of the destruction from dozens of massive blazes in California, O...
Fleeing California wildfires '10 times harder' during epidemic
Sep 10, 2020 (AFP)
Mikesler and her husband fled with only their most important documents, and, as she walks her dog at an emergency Red Cross facility in Clovis in the center of ...
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