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One found, two feared dead as towns smolder from Colorado wildfire
Jan 01, 2022 (AFP)
Of three reported missing "one of those persons has been accounted for alive and well," Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle told journalists, adding that a search ...
Heavy snows to hit Colorado after wildfires destroyed hundreds of homes
Dec 31, 2021 (AFP)
At least 500 homes were thought to have been destroyed as the blaze took hold of the town of Superior, just outside the state's biggest city Denver, forcing ten...
Argentina battling Patagonian forest fires
Dec 24, 2021 (AFP)
Fires are raging in high-altitude, little populated forest areas of the southern provinces of Rio Negro, Chubut and Neuquen. Some are as much as 300 kilometers ...
Australia fights bushfires in west, floods in east
Dec 10, 2021 (AFP)
After weeks of high temperatures, fires flanked the western tourist hotspot of Margaret River -- famed for its fine wine and big surf. No homes have been damage...
Researchers find wildfire smoke poses neurological hazards
Dec 09, 2021 (SPX)
Those respiratory consequences can be dangerous - even life-threatening - but Matthew Campen, PhD, a professor in The University of New Mexico College of Pharma...
Father, son charged with starting huge California forest fire
Dec 09, 2021 (AFP)
David Smith, 66, and Travis Smith, 32, were charged with starting a fire which led to the conflagration known as the Caldor Fire on August 14 near Lake Tahoe, a...
Climate 'overwhelming' driver of Australian bushfires: study
Nov 29, 2021 (AFP)
In a peer-reviewed study, scientists at state agency CSIRO reviewed 90 years' worth of data and concluded climate change was the major influencing factor behind...
Loss of ancient grazers triggered a global rise in fires
Nov 26, 2021 (SPX)
In collaboration with the Utah Natural History Museum, Yale scientists compiled lists of extinct large mammals and their approximate dates of extinctions across...
California wildfires killed thousands of giant sequoias: officials
Nov 19, 2021 (AFP)
Two huge lightning-sparked blazes burned up to 3,600 of the trees, each of them more than four feet (120 centimeters) in diameter, leaving them dead or expected...
Farm fires stoke Indian capital's pollution crisis
Nov 10, 2021 (AFP)
Tens of thousands of small farmers around the capital burn their crop residue at the start of every winter, clearing fields from the recently harvested paddy to...
New model identifies areas of California prone to wildfires, researchers say
Nov 03, 2021 (UPI)
The new modeling approach outperformed currently used statistical models developed for certain regions of the state, accurately predicting new locations for wil...
Viasat and AEVEX Aerospace help US Forest Service using satcoms and infrared mapping to fight fires
Nov 03, 2021 (SPX)
AEVEX's GeoFOCIS software suite offers a moving map display with a geospatial database to provide 3D situational awareness for wildfire management. GeoFOCIS is ...
Climate change main cause of fires in US west: study
Nov 02, 2021 (AFP)
Fires destroyed an average of 13,500 square kilometers (5,200 square miles) per year in the American west between 2001 and 2018 -- twice as much as between 1984...
Wildfires force climate migrants to flee in world's richest country
Oct 26, 2021 (AFP)
They moved 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) to a new life in Vermont on the other side of the United States, far from the annual danger of fast-moving fires worse...
Syria says 24 executed over starting wildfires
Oct 21, 2021 (AFP)
Those executed on Wednesday were charged with "committing terrorist acts that led to death and damage to state infrastructure and public and private property th...
California's Alisal Fire burns more than 13,000 acres
Oct 13, 2021 (AFP)
Burning in a dry, scrub-filled canyon about 20 miles (32 kilometers) northwest of Santa Barbara, the Alisal Fire is just five percent contained, according to th...
California fights fire with fire to protect giant sequoias
Sep 26, 2021 (AFP)
Human-caused climate change has made the western United States hotter, drier and more vulnerable to increasingly destructive wildfires, which have this year tak...
Wildfire Workshop finds ways NASA Aero Tech can fight fires
Sep 24, 2021 (SPX)
This means once a wildfire takes hold, more acres succumb to intense flames, which puts more people and homes in harm's way. But there are wildfire prevention a...
Climate: summer wildfires emit record amount of CO2
Sep 21, 2021 (AFP)
Globally, forests going up in flames emitted more than 2.5 billion tonnes of CO2 -- equivalent to India's annual emissions from all sources -- in July and Augus...
California continues to burn
Sep 20, 2021 (ESA)
The Dixie megablaze, the largest wildfire of the 2021 fire season and the second-largest blaze in recorded state history, has burned more than 388 000 hectares ...
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