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Bolivia NGO warns of increase in forest fires
Apr 30, 2020 (AFP)
Bolivia registered 15,354 forest fires in the first four months of the year -- a 35 percent increase on the same period last year, the Friends of Nature Foundat...
Huge fire ravages Poland's largest nature reserve
Apr 23, 2020 (AFP)
After the first flames struck Sunday, the blaze spread across 6,000 hectares or 10 percent of the park, which features some of Europe's best preserved wetlands ...
Acrid smoke hangs over Kiev after Chernobyl fire
Apr 17, 2020 (AFP)
The acrid haze hindered visibility all over the city of three million people and the smell of smoke permeated homes as Kiev jumped to the top of high air pollut...
Forest fire intensifies in Chernobyl nuclear zone
Apr 07, 2020 (AFP)
Firefighters have been battling a blaze that broke out at the weekend in the wooded zone around the ruined Chernobyl reactor that exploded in 1986 in the world'...
Nineteen killed in massive China forest fire
Mar 31, 2020 (AFP)
State television footage showed large flames shooting into the sky from the mountains above the city of Xichang in Sichuan province, turning the sky orange. Hea...
NASA satellites help forecast Yellowstone wildlife migration
Mar 13, 2020 (SPX)
The work also shows how the same data, available in near-real time, can aid the park's conservation efforts by providing daily maps of green grass cover that he...
Australia developing satellite to predict bushfire danger zones
Mar 04, 2020 (AFP)
The Australian National University said Wednesday a team is creating a "shoebox-sized" satellite that will measure forest ground cover and moisture levels using...
Climate change hiked Australia fire risk 30%: scientists
Mar 04, 2020 (AFP)
The blazes in late 2019-early 2020 destroyed more than 20 percent of all Australia's forests, devastated local communities and killed tens of millions of animal...
Chemicals firm charged over polluting French factory blaze
Feb 27, 2020 (AFP)
Lubrizol France was charged with pollution and a failure to meet safety standards that resulted in "serious injury to health, security, or substantially degrade...
Australia launches national inquiry into bushfires
Feb 20, 2020 (AFP)
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the vast scale of the fires -- which killed more than 30 people and destroyed thousands of homes -- required a new response f...
Australian bushfires extinguished, but climate rows rage on
Feb 15, 2020 (AFP)
When firefighters announced this week that all blazes in the hard-hit state of New South Wales were under control for the first time since September, the relief...
All bushfires in hardest-hit Australia state now contained: firefighters
Feb 13, 2020 (AFP)
"As of this afternoon, all fires in New South Wales have now been contained," a Rural Fire Service spokesman told AFP, as fresh rainfall helped extinguish blaze...
Australia bushfires ignite calls for indigenous fire practices
Feb 12, 2020 (AFP)
The unprecedented scale of the latest bushfire season -- made worse by hotter and drier weather brought on by climate change -- has prompted calls for greater i...
Downpours to end Australia bushfires within days
Feb 10, 2020 (AFP)
Days of torrential rains have caused flash flooding in New South Wales and Queensland, dampening once-raging fires that volunteers had battled in vain for month...
Canberra fire downgraded as heatwave eases
Feb 01, 2020 (AFP)
Fire crews battling a large blaze on the Australian capital's southern flank said it was no longer at emergency level as temperatures fell back from heatwave hi...
Australia heatwave renews bushfire worries
Jan 30, 2020 (AFP)
Temperatures reached above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) on Thursday in South Australia state, where dangerous fire weather warnings were issued i...
Arcus Fire develops tractor attachment for water-less wildfire suppression.
Jan 29, 2020 (SPX)
The last few years have seen a marked rise in the intensity and rise of wildfires across the globe from Australia to the Amazon and even the Arctic Circle. By d...
Bringing the High Ground view of the total fire fight to a single App
Jan 26, 2020 (SPX)
But being able to answer the second and more important question, can be no more than gut feel at times. A gut which needs information to accurately assess a sit...
Setting fires to avoid fires
Jan 24, 2020 (SPX)
"We need a colossal expansion of fuel treatments," said study lead author Rebecca Miller, a PhD student in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment a...
Human-sparked fires smaller, less intense but more frequent with longer seasons
Jan 24, 2020 (SPX)
At a national scale, fires are broadly becoming larger and more frequent with fire season lengths extending over time. At the same time, wildfires started by pe...
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