FIRESTORM

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California wildfire pollution paralyzes San Francisco region
Nov 20, 2018 (AFP)
A few people, some wearing facemasks, rushed past and ducked inside stores, avoiding the acrid, smoky air outside. Though the deadly wildfires around Paradise a...
Trump's forest remarks 'rake news' for Finland
Nov 19, 2018 (AFP)
Speaking to reporters during the weekend while in California to see the impact of devastating forest fires, the US president again blamed forest management, but...
'Sad' Trump visits fire-wracked California, blames mismanagement
Nov 18, 2018 (AFP)
"This is very sad," Trump said after surveying the remains of Paradise, where nearly the only people out on the road were emergency services workers, surrounded...
Hotter, drier climate explains increase in size, severity of California's fires
Nov 13, 2018 (UPI)
Humans can also influence the size and severity of wildfires. Human-caused global warming and aggressive wildfire suppression -- the longtime approach of federa...
Firefighters dig battle lines as body count mounts in California
Nov 12, 2018 (AFP)
The Camp Fire -- in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains north of Sacramento -- has killed 29 people, matching the state's deadliest ever brush blaze 85...
Hell in Paradise: fire crews in grim search for California's dead
Nov 11, 2018 (AFP)
Firefighters took advantage of a brief calm overnight to make headway against the multiple blazes, but conditions were expected to be hellish on Sunday with win...
Ten ways climate change can make wildfires worse
Nov 11, 2018 (AFP)
Other factors have also fuelled an increase in the frequency and intensity of major fires, including human encroachment on wooded areas, and questionable forest...
California fire death toll rises to 23
Nov 11, 2018 (AFP)
Firefighters are battling raging fires at both ends of the state, but there is little hope of containing the flames anytime soon. "Today, 14 additional bodies w...
Climate change causing more severe wildfires, larger insect outbreaks in temperate forests
Nov 08, 2018 (SPX)
The study, published Oct. 19 in the journal Nature Communications, sought to provide a more complete snapshot of disturbances in the world's temperate forests b...
Indigenous fire practice protecting the Gibson Desert's biodiversity
Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)
The study analysed how environments dominated by flammable spinifex grasses and fire-sensitive desert myrtle shrubs reacted to wildfires, and to the low-intensi...
Goat brigades help battle Portugal's deadly wildfires
Oct 11, 2018 (AFP)
Hoping to contain wildfires that threaten its mountains each year, Portugal's government has hired goats to munch through undergrowth and create natural, cost-e...
Carbon emissions from Amazonian forest fires up to 4 times worse than feared
Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)
New research, published in a special issue of the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, has revealed that the aftermath of 2015 and 2016 fo...
Blaze in Portugal national park brought under control
Oct 07, 2018 (AFP)
Twenty-one people, mostly firefighters, were injured in the fire, which sparked overnight in the mountainous region of the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park and was f...
Europe fires to worsen even if climate goals met: study
Oct 02, 2018 (AFP)
Following two years of often deadly blazes across Portugal, Spain, southern France and Greece, scientists at the University of Barcelona said more woodland area...
Huge blaze forces hundreds from homes in Tuscany
Sep 25, 2018 (AFP)
Around 600 hectares in total have been consumed by the blaze, chief Pisan firefighter Ugo D'Anna told a local television station, adding that while it was now c...
Canada crews battle firenado in tug-o-war for hose
Sep 19, 2018 (AFP)
In a terrifying moment, the vortex made up of smoke and ash sucked the hose into an orange-red cloud along a dirt road near Vanderhoof, British Columbia, and me...
NASA assists in efforts to contain California wildfires
Aug 28, 2018 (SPX)
The California Air National Guard asked the NASA Earth Science Disasters Program for support with the wildfires that have destroyed more than 410,000 acres and ...
Raging forest fire bears down on German villages
Aug 24, 2018 (AFP)
The smell of acrid smoke reached as far away as the capital as more than 400 hectares (1,000 acres) of woodland burned outside the city of Potsdam. Around 600 p...
A World On Fire
Aug 24, 2018 (SPX)
The location, widespread nature, and number of fires suggest that these fires were deliberately set to manage land. Farmers often use fire to return nutrients t...
Montana State research determines reasons for massive fires in south-central Chile
Aug 24, 2018 (SPX)
Besides low humidity, high winds and extreme temperatures - some of the same factors contributing to fires raging across the United States - central Chile is ex...
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