Firefighters successfully reduced the spread of a massive wildfire in Brasília on Wednesday, after two days of intense flames destroyed 20% of the National Forest of Brasilia. The blaze, which officials suspect may have been caused by arson, blanketed the city in thick smoke. The fire erupted during the peak of the dry season, where […]
Wildfires that swept Canada’s woodlands last year released more greenhouse gases than some of the largest emitting countries, a study found on Wednesday, calling into question national emissions budgets that rely on forests to be carbon stores. At 647 megatonnes, the carbon released in last year’s wildfires exceeded those of seven of the ten largest […]
ANKARA: The Sao Paulo state government in Brazil has formed a Crisis Cabinet to deal with wildfires that have already killed at least two people, according to media reports on Sunday. A dense grey fog has blanketed the capital Sao Paulo, one of Latin America’s most populous cities with more than 11 million residents. The […]
The Brazilian government has deployed nearly 1,500 firefighters to combat severe fires in the Amazon rainforest, worsened by the worst drought in decades. Despite a decrease in deforestation since President Lula da Silva’s January 2023 inauguration, satellite data reports 59,000 fires this year, the highest since 2008. The fires have blanketed Porto Velho in smoke, […]
ATHENS: Greece’s worst wildfire of the year eased on the outskirts of the capital Athens on Tuesday thanks to weaker winds, pausing progress of a destructive blaze that killed one person and torched cars, buildings, fields and forests. Hundreds of firefighters backed by 10 waterbombing aircraft battled the blaze since Sunday as it barrelled from a forest […]
Listen to article ATHENS: Greece’s worst wildfire of the year eased on the outskirts of the capital Athens on Tuesday thanks to weaker winds, pausing the progress of a destructive blaze that killed one person and torched cars, buildings, fields and forests. Hundreds of firefighters backed by 10 waterbombing aircraft battled the blaze since Sunday as it […]
ATHENS: Residents fled their homes on Sunday as a fast-moving wildfire outside Athens fuelled by hot, windy weather burned trees, houses and cars and sent smoke clouds over the Greek capital. More than 400 firefighters backed by 16 waterbombing planes and 13 helicopters battled the blaze that broke out at 3 p.m. (midday GMT) and […]
ATHENS: Greek authorities placed a man described as an Athens university professor in pre-trial detention on Thursday on suspicion of starting a series of wildfires near Athens, local media said. Civil Protection Minister Vassilis Kikilias had said earlier this week that the 66-year-old suspect had set “four dangerous fires” in the semi-rural suburb of Vari, […]
More than 6,000 firefighters in California’s Central Valley continued to battle the largest blaze in the US on Saturday, which burned its way into the history books as the state’s fourth-largest conflagration on record. There was barely a taste of rain on Saturday from thunderstorms that brought wind and rainfall of zero to one-tenth of an […]
A fast-moving wildfire has killed at least one person in the Rocky Mountain foothills of Colorado, one of a handful of blazes burning across the state, while thousands of firefighters in California struggled to contain the largest fire in the country. The individual killed in the Stone Canyon Fire, burning about 20 miles (32 km) […]