FIRESTORM

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Record heat sees Australia map upgrade
Jan 08, 2013 (AFP)
Extreme heat in Australia forced the government's weather bureau to upgrade its temperature scale Tuesday, with new colours on the climate map to reflect new hi...
Police fear deaths in Australia wildfires
Jan 06, 2013 (AFP)
Several people were missing feared dead Sunday after wildfires swept through the Australian island of Tasmania, destroying more than 100 homes and forcing thous...
Thousands flee wildfires in southern Australia
Jan 05, 2013 (AFP)
Thousands fled wildfires raging on the Australian island of Tasmania, destroying at least 80 properties and leaving unconfirmed reports of one man dying in the ...
Tracking invasive cheatgrass role in larger, more frequent Western fires
Dec 11, 2012 (SPX)
New research that relied in part on satellite images suggests that cheatgrass, an invasive species brought west by settlers in the 1800s, is one cause for the l...
Climate Models Project Increase in U.S. Wildfire Risk
Dec 11, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists using NASA satellite data and climate models have projected drier conditions likely will cause increased fire activity across the United States in co...
Storm causes fresh forest fire in Tenerife
Oct 30, 2012 (AFP)
A storm caused a forest fire on the Spanish island of Tenerife that threatened a village, prompting residents to evacuate from their homes, an official said Wed...
Russia blames Al-Qaeda for Europe wildfires
Oct 03, 2012 (AFP)
The head of Russia's Federal Security Service blamed Al-Qaeda Wednesday for a recent series of deadly forest fires in Europe, saying they were set by arsonists ...
Forest fire forces 2,000 to evacuate in Spain
Sep 24, 2012 (AFP)
Firefighters battled a forest fire whipped up by strong winds in the Spanish region of Valencia on Monday, forcing the evacuation of about 2,000 people, officia...
Study shows wildfires' positive and negative economic impacts
Sep 19, 2012 (SPX)
Despite the disruptions they cause, large wildfires are a mixed economic bag for nearby communities, according to findings from a research project by the Univer...
Singapore chokes on smoke from Indonesia
Sep 07, 2012 (AFP)
Singapore registered its worst level of air pollution for the year on Friday as smoke from forest fires in Indonesia blew over the city-state, triggering a heal...
Thousands return home after Costa del Sol forest inferno
Sep 01, 2012 (AFP)
Almost 4,000 people who fled a deadly forest fire in mountains near the Spanish resort of Marbella returned home on Saturday after the blaze was brought under c...
French boy admits to setting massive forest fire
Aug 27, 2012 (AFP)
A 14-year-old French boy has admitted to setting a massive forest fire that continued to blaze in southern France on Monday, prosecutors said. The boy was detai...
Forest fire near Athens under control: officials
Aug 25, 2012 (AFP)
Firefighters on Saturday placed under partial control a large forest fire that broke out on the northeastern outskirts of Athens, officials said. "I believe we ...
Fires burn across multiple European holiday spots
Aug 18, 2012 (AFP)
Greek fire-fighters on Saturday battled a blaze, fanned by strong winds, on the island of Chios, where billowing smoke forced the evacuations of three villages....
Payouts urged for Australia marathon fire victims
Aug 16, 2012 (AFP)
Australian officials on Thursday said two women runners left with serious and disfiguring injuries after a wildfire swept through a 2011 ultra-marathon should r...
Unusual weather events identified during the Black Saturday bushfires
Aug 14, 2012 (SPX)
Research has revealed that the extremely hot, dry and windy conditions on Black Saturday combined with structures in the atmosphere called 'horizontal convectiv...
Land burning in SE Asia kills nearly 15,000 in El Nino years
Aug 13, 2012 (AFP)
Forest and land fires in Southeast Asia kill an additional 15,000 people annually when the El Nino weather phenomenon grips the region, scientists have estimate...
Forest fire near Greek Orthodox monastery spreads
Aug 09, 2012 (AFP)
Authorities ordered the evacuation Thursday of young families and the elderly as a wildfire near Greece's monastic community of Mount Athos spread towards a nea...
Six injured in blaze raging in southern Greece
Aug 08, 2012 (AFP)
Six people, four of them firefighters, have been injured in a forest fire raging in the Peloponnese in southern Greece, the fire department said on Wednesday. "...
Second lawsuit over deadly Australian wildfires
Aug 07, 2012 (AFP)
A class action over Australia's deadly 2009 wildfires was launched Tuesday against a Singapore power company, with victims of the blaze that killed 40 people bl...
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