Bolivians use hoses, water bottles to battle wildfire blazes
Bolivians are battling wildfire blazes that have torn through 3 million hectares (11,583 square miles) of land this year, with firefighters and police using hoses,...
wildfires
Thousands evacuated from Tenerife as summer wildfire re-ignites
Authorities on the Spanish island of Tenerife evacuated some 3,000 people from their homes overnight as a wildfire sparked by high temperatures and strong winds...
Wildfires rage in Greece, Spain and Italy as heatwave spreads
Hospital patients were evacuated onto a ferry in the Greek port city of Alexandroupolis on Tuesday away from a wildfire raging uncontrolled for a fourth...
Yellowknife residents abandon town and Canada fires spark new evacuations (updated)
The remaining residents from the remote northern Canadian city of Yellowknife sought to get out of town on Friday before flames blocked their exit, while...
Canadian wildfire threatens towns, govt orders evacuations
Canadian officials ordered the evacuation of the Northwest Territories’ capital of Yellowknife and several smaller communities as a massive wildfire threatened the town of Hay...
Maui wildfire death toll hits 80 as questions raised over warnings
The death toll from the Maui wildfires rose to 80 on Friday as search teams combed through the smoldering ruins of Lahaina, and Hawaiian officials...
Hawaii wildfires kill 36 as ‘apocalypse’ hits Maui island resort city
At least 36 people have died after wildfires, fanned by winds from a faraway hurricane, devastated much of the resort city Lahaina on Hawaii’s Maui...
Wildfire rages for fourth day in Portugal, 1,400 evacuated
Nearly 1,000 firefighters were battling a wildfire in southern Portugal on Tuesday that has been raging for four days, scorching thousands of hectares and forcing...
Pope urges world leaders to do more to tackle climate change
Pope Francis said on Sunday that recent heat waves across many parts of the world and flooding in countries such as South Korea showed that...
Wildfires in Greece burn for fifth day as another heatwave hits
Greece struggled to contain a wildfire west of Athens that burnt forestland for a fifth day on Friday as another heatwave hit the country. Firefighters,...
