FIRESTORM

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Malaysia raises diplomatic temperature as Indonesia burns
Sep 19, 2019 (AFP)
Blazes to clear agricultural land in the archipelago are sending toxic haze across Southeast Asia, with Jakarta's efforts to fight them using water-bombing airc...
Bolivia wildfires burn more than 4 million hectares: NGO
Sep 18, 2019 (AFP)
The fires have torched some of the country's most environmentally sensitive areas for weeks, and the government of the northeastern department of Beni declared ...
Indonesia 'doing everything' to put out forest fires - President Widodo
Sep 17, 2019 (AFP)
Forest fires are raging on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, sending a choking fug across the region -- including towards neighbours Malaysia and Singapore. Du...
Subterranean blaze: Indonesia struggles to douse underground fires
Sep 16, 2019 (AFP)
Vast blazes are ripping across the archipelago's rainforests, unleashing a toxic haze over Southeast Asia that has triggered health fears and sent diplomatic te...
Frontline fight: Indonesia locked in epic battle against jungle blazes
Sep 14, 2019 (AFP)
Those leading the response are short on equipment, with some wearing just flimsy masks and rubber boots as they blast streams of water at flames consuming the j...
Forest fires destroying vital buffer against climate change
Sep 13, 2019 (AFP)
The latest serious outbreak is in Indonesia, where smog-belching fires started to clear land for agriculture are burning out of control, blanketing the region i...
Fires in Brazilian wetlands quadruple in 2019: report
Sep 12, 2019 (AFP)
The number of fires recorded by satellite since January in the Pantanal hit 4,515, an increase of 334 percent from the same period in 2018 where only 1,039 fire...
EU boosts emergency response as climate change heightens fire risks
Sep 12, 2019 (AFP)
"RescEU means European solidarity and protection...in this way, we can save lives, we can save properties," European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid Christos ...
Indonesia forest fires surge, stoking global warming fears
Sep 12, 2019 (AFP)
Illegal blazes to clear land for agricultural plantations have been raging on Sumatra and Borneo islands, with Indonesia deploying water-bombing helicopters and...
Satellite Data Record Shows Climate Change's Impact on Fires
Sep 11, 2019 (SPX)
Since 1880, the world has warmed by 1.9 degrees Fahrenheit, with the five warmest years on record occurring in the last five years. Since the 1980s, the wildfir...
Malaysia piles pressure on Indonesia over smog-belching fires
Sep 11, 2019 (AFP)
Burning forests to make way for farming is also thought to be behind the enormous fires currently ripping through the Amazon in South America, and experts belie...
'Herculean' efforts save homes as Australia fires rage
Sep 10, 2019 (AFP)
More than 130 fires are raging in the states of Queensland and New South Wales, fuelled by strong winds and a prolonged drought, in an unusually ferocious and e...
Monitoring air pollution from fires
Sep 10, 2019 (SPX)
In light of the climate crisis, the loss of swathes of forest is a serious concern. Everyone on Earth benefits from the health of rainforests like the Amazon. T...
Bolivia has lost 1.7 million hectares to fire: government
Sep 05, 2019 (AFP)
Environmentalists blame laws enacted under leftist President Evo Morales, who has encouraged the burning of forest and pasture land to expand agricultural produ...
Bolivia's fires destroy 'heritage' rock art sites
Sep 03, 2019 (AFP)
"We believe that the damage is big and wide in terms of our heritage of rock art," said Danilo Drakic, chief archeologist in the eastern Santa Cruz department. ...
Brazil's Amazon basin fires keep surging
Sep 01, 2019 (AFP)
In the first 48 hours since the ban was issued, satellite data from the National Space Research Institute (INPE) showed 3,859 new outbreaks of fire, of which so...
Brazil's burning ban takes effect as Amazon fires rage
Aug 30, 2019 (AFP)
The decree issued by President Jair Bolsonaro comes after escalating international pressure over the worst fires in the Amazon in years, which have ignited a di...
UN chief moots summit to tackle Amazon fires
Aug 29, 2019 (AFP)
Speaking on the sidelines of an African development conference in Yokohama, Antonio Guterres urged the international community to do more to quell the more than...
Brazil bans burning for two months to defuse Amazon crisis
Aug 29, 2019 (AFP)
The blazes that have engulfed parts of the world's largest rainforest -- which is crucial for maintaining a stable global climate -- have also sparked a diploma...
Amazon fires a 'tipping point': forestry group chief
Aug 28, 2019 (AFP)
The situation in the Amazon is "very urgent," stressed Gerhard Dieterle, executive director of the International Tropical Timber Organisation, an intergovernmen...
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