FIRESTORM

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Firefighters bringing blazes under control in Portugal, France
Aug 12, 2016 (AFP)
Firefighters were making progress in quenching forest fires that have ravaged parts of Portugal and France, officials said Friday, as Spain faced a rash of poss...
Portugal battles deadly forest fires
Aug 11, 2016 (AFP)
Three people have died in raging forest fires on Portugal's holiday island of Madeira where flames damaged homes and a hotel and forced around 1,000 people to f...
12 newborns dead in Baghdad hospital blaze
Aug 10, 2016 (AFP)
A fire in the maternity ward of one of Baghdad's main hospitals Wednesday killed 12 premature babies, prompting Iraq's health minister to announce her resignati...
Forest fires strike southern Portugal after devastating north
Aug 09, 2016 (AFP)
Several hundred people fled their homes in southern Portugal and Madeira overnight in the face of forest fires that have also ravaged parts of the north of the ...
Restoring prairie and fighting wildfire with drone launched fireballs
Aug 04, 2016 (SPX)
Ecologist Dirac Twidwell wants to change the way we think about prescribed burns. The University of Nebraska professor says he can harness extreme fire to resto...
Huge forest fires threaten existence of spotted owls, study says
Aug 03, 2016 (UPI)
Scientists have been unsure whether reducing the potential for megafires in forests through prescribed burns helped or hurt spotted owls, which may fare better ...
Wild animals evacuated because of fire return home in LA
Jul 28, 2016 (AFP)
Kuba the tiger paces in his cage, pawing at the metal floor and growling. He's in a bad mood. A huge wildfire in suburban Los Angeles forced his evacuation Frid...
Raging wildfire engulfs California homes, film set
Jul 26, 2016 (AFP)
Thousands of firefighters battled Monday to contain a blaze tearing through suburban Los Angeles, destroying homes and a popular filming location and threatenin...
Southern California fire mushrooms, residents evacuated
Jul 24, 2016 (AFP)
A fire burning out of control in Southern California has grown to a massive 20,000 acres, officials said Sunday, as residents in an area north of Los Angeles we...
Fire clues in cave dripwater
Jul 22, 2016 (SPX)
When mineral-rich water drips from a cave's ceiling over centuries and millennia, it forms rocky cones that hold clues to the Earth's past climate. Now, researc...
Russian wildfires put key climate resource at risk
Jul 22, 2016 (AFP)
Russia's practice of leaving massive wildfires to burn out of control in sprawling stretches of Siberia puts at risk a key global resource for absorbing climate...
Chinese relatives demand truth about tourist bus inferno
Jul 22, 2016 (AFP)
Grieving relatives of 24 Chinese tourists who died in a bus inferno in Taiwan have demanded answers from authorities, after the worst road accident ever to hit ...
Taiwan bus inferno kills 26, mainly China tourists
Jul 19, 2016 (AFP)
A fire ripped through a bus carrying tourists from China in Taiwan Tuesday, killing all 26 on board in the worst road accident to hit mainland visitors since a ...
Ft McMurray wildfires costliest disaster in Canada history: insurers
Jul 07, 2016 (AFP)
Wildfires in Canada's oil city of Fort McMurray this year caused CAN $3.58 billion ($2.75 billion USD) in damages, making it the country's costliest disaster ev...
Singapore to pursue firms over fires, despite Indonesian ire
Jul 03, 2016 (AFP)
Singapore is refusing to back down in its pursuit of those responsible for haze-belching forest fires in Southeast Asia last year, despite struggling to bring t...
From fire breaks to fire hazards
Jun 30, 2016 (SPX)
The peat bogs of the world, once waterlogged repositories of dead moss, are being converted into fuel-packed fire hazards that can burn for months and generate ...
Indonesia plans peat monitoring system to curb choking haze
Jun 29, 2016 (AFP)
Indonesia is planning a hi-tech monitoring network to protect peatland at the centre of last year's raging fires that cloaked Southeast Asia in toxic haze, a se...
Deadly California wildfire destroys at least 150 homes
Jun 26, 2016 (AFP)
California firefighters on Sunday struggled to contain a wildfire that killed at least two people and destroyed some 150 homes as it raced over drought-parched ...
Two dead in California fires, thousands evacuated
Jun 25, 2016 (AFP)
At least two people have died in a fire in central California that has destroyed 100 structures and prompted the governor to declare a state of emergency, offic...
Cyprus 'optimistic' on containing deadly wildfire
Jun 22, 2016 (AFP)
Cyprus expressed optimism on Wednesday that it could contain the island's worst forest fire in years after additional firefighting aircraft arrived from France ...
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