FIRESTORM

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Bolivia lost 1.2 mn hectares to fires this year, govt says
Aug 28, 2019 (AFP)
The news comes after leftist President Evo Morales suspended his re-election campaign on Monday to direct the government's response to a growing environmental d...
Brazil slams G7 aid offer as Amazon fires rage
Aug 27, 2019 (AFP)
Nearly 80,000 forest fires have broken out in Brazil since the beginning of the year -- just over half of them in the massive Amazon basin that regulates part o...
New fires rage in Amazon as Brazil military planes battle flames
Aug 26, 2019 (AFP)
Smoke choked Port Velho city and forced the closure of the airport for nearly two hours as fires raged in the northwestern state of Rondonia where fire-fighting...
Brazil's Bolsonaro authorizes army to help fight Amazon fires
Aug 25, 2019 (AFP)
Heavy smoke covered the city of Porto Velho in the northwestern state of Rondonia where the defense ministry said the planes have started dumping thousands of l...
Thick smoke chokes Brazil's north as Amazon fires rage
Aug 25, 2019 (AFP)
In the northwestern state of Rondonia -- one of the hardest hit areas by the worst fires in years -- people are living under a blanket of smoke that has envelop...
Amazon fires: how celebrities are spreading disinformation
Aug 23, 2019 (AFP)
Official figures show nearly 73,000 forest fires were recorded in Brazil in the first eight months of the year, the highest number for any year since 2013. Most...
Boreal forest fires could release deep soil carbon
Aug 22, 2019 (SPX)
Canada's Northwest Territories were scorched by record-breaking wildfires in 2014. The team of researchers from the United States and Canada took soil samples f...
Firefighters stabilise Canary Islands fire, most residents go home
Aug 21, 2019 (AFP)
Flames as high as 50 metres (160 feet) had complicated the battle against the blaze burning since Saturday on the western slopes of the volcanic island located ...
Brazil's Bolsonaro blames Amazon fires on NGOs as Twitter erupts
Aug 21, 2019 (AFP)
Images of fires purportedly devouring sections of the world's largest rainforest have gone viral on Twitter. #PrayforAmazonas is the top trending hashtag in the...
Forest fires in Brazil surge as deforestation accelerates
Aug 20, 2019 (AFP)
Nearly 73,000 fires were recorded between January and August, compared with 39,759 in all of 2018, the embattled National Institute for Space Research (INPE) sa...
'Environmental tragedy' as Canary Islands fire out of control
Aug 19, 2019 (AFP)
The blaze, the third in 10 days in the mountainous centre of the island, has forced the evacuation of several villages with a combined population of 9,000, a sp...
Evacuations as Gran Canaria hit by new blaze
Aug 17, 2019 (AFP)
Earlier in the evening, the island council said it had evacuated the Cross of Tejeda, a mountain pass popular for its spectacular views in the centre of Gran Ca...
Greek fire crews make progress on island blaze
Aug 16, 2019 (AFP)
"The situation looks better today, there is no active front, but our forces remain in place," a fire department spokesman told AFP, adding that there are still ...
NASA studies how Arctic wildfires change the world
Aug 14, 2019 (SPX)
"Fires are a natural part of the ecosystem, but what we're seeing is an accelerated fire cycle: we are getting more frequent and severe fires and larger burned ...
Ecological disaster on Greek island as fire burns on
Aug 14, 2019 (AFP)
"It's a huge ecological disaster in a unique, untouched pine forest," said acting regional governor Costas Bakoyannis. The fire that broke out in the early hour...
New process discovered to completely degrade flame retardant in the environment
Aug 09, 2019 (SPX)
This new process breaks down tetrabromobisohenol A (TBBPA) to harmless carbon dioxide and water. The discovery highlights the potential of using a special mater...
'Siberia is burning': Russians choke on forest fire smog
Aug 06, 2019 (AFP)
Tuflyakova lives in the village of Boguchany in Krasnoyarsk region, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) from raging fires which have engulfed vast territories and f...
Trump, Putin discuss Russian wildfires: White House
Aug 01, 2019 (AFP)
Trump "expressed concern over the vast wildfires afflicting Siberia. The leaders also discussed trade between the two countries," according to a brief statement...
Siberia forest fires spark potential 'disaster' for Arctic
Jul 30, 2019 (AFP)
As fires sweep across millions of hectares enveloping entire cities in black smoke and noxious fumes, environmentalists warn of a disaster threatening to accele...
Israeli forest fire spares Christian shrine
Jul 28, 2019 (AFP)
The fire on Mount Tabor, where the Basilica of the Transfiguration is located, broke out Thursday and had been put out late Friday, but "small fires are rekindl...
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