FIRESTORM

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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 ...
Brazil wetland fires threaten jaguar reserve
Sep 09, 2020 (AFP)
"The military firefighting corps sent two teams of reinforcements today to fight a fire in Encontro das Aguas State Park," the government of the state of Mato G...
Syria battles forest fires for seventh day straight
Sep 09, 2020 (AFP)
Damascus ally Iran sent in a firefighting plane Wednesday carrying 40 tonnes of water to help fight the fires in the hilly woodlands of Latakia and Hama provinc...
From space and in the air, NASA tracks California's wildfires
Sep 03, 2020 (JPL)
"When disasters like this occur, we are able to swiftly respond to requests from our partners who need images and mapping data," said David Green, manager of th...
Soldier killed, two injured in Ukraine forest fire
Sep 03, 2020 (AFP)
The soldiers were evacuating equipment and weapons from the blaze, Oleksandr Motuzanyk, a spokesman for the defence ministry told AFP. The fire spread over 500 ...
Record CO2 emissions for Arctic wildfires: EU
Sep 03, 2020 (AFP)
Uncontrolled forest fires across one of the planet's coldest regions has sent a quarter of a billion tonnes of CO2 spiralling into the atmosphere since January ...
Brazilian Amazon fires near level of 2019 crisis
Sep 01, 2020 (AFP)
Fires meanwhile tripled year-on-year in the Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetlands, according to data based on satellite images from Brazil's national ...
Fires 'poisoning air' in Amazon: study
Aug 26, 2020 (AFP)
The fires that engulfed the Brazilian Amazon last year to global outcry caused an estimated 2,195 people in the region to be hospitalized for respiratory distre...
Climate change 'clearly' fuelled Australia bushfires: inquest
Aug 25, 2020 (AFP)
With this year's fire season already underway, authorities recommended urgent action to limit the impact of extreme blazes, expected "to become more frequent" i...
Fire crews make progress battling historic California blazes
Aug 25, 2020 (AFP)
Governor Gavin Newsom said some 625 fires were burning throughout the state and had scorched more than 1.2 million acres -- nearly the size of the Grand Canyon....
California fires cover 1 million acres amid fears of new spread
Aug 23, 2020 (AFP)
Thousands of lightning strikes have hit the state in the past week, igniting fires that left smoke blanketing the region, bringing the total area burned to "clo...
Thousands flee as fast-moving wildfires spread in California
Aug 20, 2020 (AFP)
In Vacaville -- a city of about 100,000 people located between the state capital Sacramento and San Francisco -- residents were urged to evacuate during the nig...
As Amazon burns, farmers defend lighting fires to clear land
Aug 18, 2020 (AFP)
Agricultural fires like this are burning through the world's biggest rainforest at an alarming rate, according to environmentalists using satellite data from Br...
Large fire engulfs Athens recycling plant
Aug 15, 2020 (AFP)
More than 49 firefighters and two helicopters are battling the blaze that broke out in the suburb of Metamorfosi, the Athens News Agency reported. The northern ...
Amazon fires a 'lie' says Brazil's Bolsonaro
Aug 12, 2020 (AFP)
The far-right leader has faced international condemnation for presiding over huge fires and rising deforestation in the Amazon -- criticism he took issue with i...
Brazil firefighters race to contain wetland blazes
Aug 05, 2020 (AFP)
The Brazilian Pantanal suffered a record 1,684 fires last month, triple the number from July 2019, according to satellite images. It was the worst month on reco...
Forest fire in southern France triggers evacuations
Aug 04, 2020 (AFP)
There were no casualties thus far from the blaze that broke out west of Marseille, as 1,200 firefighters and water bombing planes were deployed to fight the fla...
Algeria president orders probe into forest fires
Aug 02, 2020 (AFP)
The enquiry aims to "determine the causes of fires that have ravaged vast stretches of forest". Local media have reported that the fires also destroyed homes, b...
Brazilian Amazon fires surge in July
Aug 01, 2020 (AFP)
Brazil's national space agency, INPE, identified 6,803 fires in the Amazon region in July 2020, up from 5,318 the year before. The figure is all the more troubl...
Estimated 3 billion animals affected by Australia bushfires: study
Jul 28, 2020 (AFP)
The study by scientists from several Australian universities said the wildlife hit included 143 million mammals, 2.46 billion reptiles, 180 million birds and 51...
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