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6 dead, thousands evacuated in Turkey wildfire

Umit Bektas, Reuters
Posted at Aug 01 02:11 PM

A picture taken with drone shows the Icmeler region burnt during a wildfire near Marmaris, Turkey, on Saturday. Read more »

Kagubatan sa bayan ng Southern Leyte apektado ng wildfire

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 28 04:54 PM

Apektado ng malaking wildfire ang kagubatan sa bayan ng Silago, Southern Leyte ngayong Miyerkoles.   Read more »

Major US wildfire grows, forcing new evacuations

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 19 07:06 AM

With oppressively hot, dry weather looming over much of the Western US and Canada on Sunday, the enormous Bootleg Fire in Oregon grew again and authorities ordered new evacuations.  Read more »

Heat warnings in western US and Canada as wildfires burn

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 12 06:33 PM

The western United States and Canada faced scorching temperatures to start the week, with heat warnings still in place Monday and authorities struggling to bring wildfires under control in both countries. Read more »

Wildfires rage across western Canada, California

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 02 06:41 PM

Dozens of fires raged across western Canada and California on Friday with little relief expected from a deadly heat wave that has seen temperatures hit record highs.   Read more »

Kambing, pangontra sa wildfire?

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 30 08:36 PM

Dahil sa wildfires, mataas ang demand sa kambing sa ilang lugar sa west coast ng Amerika.  Read more »

Sizzling heat wave blankets US Southwest

Dan Whitcomb and Scott DiSavino, Reuters
Posted at Jun 17 08:54 AM

LOS ANGELES - Much of the western United States baked for a third day on Wednesday under a punishing heat wave that has set temperature records, prompted health warnings and strained power grids. Read more »

Firefighters battle forest blaze near Athens

Reuters
Posted at May 21 09:25 PM

Greek firefighters battled for a third day on Friday a wind-driven blaze that burned through pine forests about 60 km (37 miles) west of the capital Athens and forced hundreds of people to evacuate from their homes. Read more »

Japan wildfire rages for 5th day, more households to be urged to evacuate

Reuters
Posted at Feb 26 01:17 PM

The fire in the vicinity of Ashikaga city, in Tochigi prefecture, has continued to spread since breaking out Sunday, despite efforts by firefighters on the ground and military helicopters dousing the area.   Read more »

Deforestation wiped out 8% of Amazon in 18 years: study

Paula Ramon, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 09 05:28 AM

SAO PAULO - Deforestation in the Amazon destroyed an area bigger than Spain from 2000 to 2018, wiping out eight percent of the world's largest rainforest, according to a study released Tuesday. Read more »

Wildfires, nanalasa sa Southern California

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 28 06:24 PM

Ilang araw nang nilalabanan ng mga bumbero ang wildfires sa Southern California. Read more »

Next pandemic? Amazon deforestation could spark new diseases

Fabio Zuker, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Oct 16 02:56 AM

As farms expand into the Amazon rainforest, felled trees and expanding pastures may open the way for new Brazilian exports beyond beef and soybeans, researchers say: pandemic diseases. Read more »

Wildfires raze dozens of homes in New Zealand

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 05 01:45 PM

Wildfires have destroyed up to 50 homes in New Zealand, authorities announced Monday, saying it was a miracle no one was hurt as "a wall of orange" razed most of a remote South Island village. Read more »

Fires in Brazil's Amazon the worst in a decade, data shows

Jake Spring, Reuters
Posted at Oct 02 02:27 AM

BRASILIA - Fires in Brazil's Amazon increased 13 percent in the first nine months of the year compared with a year ago, as the rainforest region experiences its worst rash of fires in a decade, data from space research agency Inpe showed on Thursday. Read more »

'It burned everything': Fires surge on indigenous land in Brazil

Mauricio Angelo, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Updated as of Oct 01 08:29 AM

BRASILIA - On Guató indigenous land, in Brazil's western state of Matto Grosso do Sul, drought-worsened fires this year have burned through 90 percent of the tribe's 11,000 hectares of territory, incinerating the crops and native plants they depend on. Read more »

Two enormous California fires rage unchecked in state’s northern counties

Heather Murphy, The New York Times
Posted at Sep 30 02:31 PM

Wildfires continued to rage across California on Tuesday, forcing tens of thousands of residents to evacuate their homes in several counties and threatening restaurants and wineries in the state’s northern wine country.   Read more »

Oregon inmates find redemption in fighting wildfires

Adrees Latif, Reuters
Posted at Sep 30 03:24 AM

In the flames, they are finding redemption.   Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: September 29, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 30 02:25 AM

Here are the big stories today in photos. Read more »

3 killed in fresh wildfires in Northern California

Tim Arango, Johnny Diaz and Carly Stern, The New York Times
Updated as of Sep 29 03:12 PM

California’s famed wine country, already suffering an economic blow brought on by the coronavirus pandemic and covered in smoke for weeks, is on fire again.  Read more »

Glass fire destroys hundreds of houses

Noah Berger, AP
Updated as of Sep 29 12:29 PM

Homes leveled by the Glass Fire line a street in the Skyhawk neighborhood of Santa Rosa, California, USA on Monday.  Read more »