FIRESTORM

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Wild fires race across California, devastate wine country
Sep 14, 2015 (AFP)
Devastating wildfires laid waste to miles of land around California's scenic wine country, reducing hundreds of homes and businesses to smoldering ruins and lea...
Southern California wildfires show split personalities
Sep 14, 2015 (SPX)
Wildfires have ravaged regions of Southern California at an increasing rate over the past few decades, and scientists from three University of California campus...
Indonesian fires send smog over Singapore, Malaysia
Sep 08, 2015 (AFP)
Smog from forest fires in Indonesia on Tuesday prompted the cancellation of flights and warnings for people to stay indoors, while pushing air quality to unheal...
Wildfires threaten Russia's unique Lake Baikal
Sep 04, 2015 (AFP)
Raging wildfires have turned the shores of the world's largest freshwater lake in Siberia into an inferno, threatening the health and livelihood of locals and r...
Peat fires in Sumatra strengthen in El Nino years
Aug 25, 2015 (SPX)
Sumatra's burning again and the El Nino event that is occurring this year is partially to blame for the proliferation of the blazes. El Nino events bring drier ...
Fires in US state of Washington largest in its history
Aug 24, 2015 (AFP)
A group of wildfires blazing in the western US state of Washington have become the largest in the state's history, officials said Monday. The so-called Okanogan...
US military deploys troops to help in California wildfires
Aug 19, 2015 (AFP)
The US Army is sending hundreds of troops to help tackle wildfires raging across parched California, authorities said Tuesday, while also warning of the growing...
Nearly 30,000 firefighters battling western US blazes
Aug 19, 2015 (AFP)
Nearly 30,000 firefighters and support staff were battling blazes across a handful of mainly western US states, officials said Wednesday, after millions of acre...
As California wildfires burn, southern plant species are shifting northward
Aug 13, 2015 (SPX)
As California wildfires burn tree canopies and the forest floors they support, the plants that are replacing the understory are increasingly those found in more...
Wildfires rage in Russia's Siberia
Aug 11, 2015 (AFP)
More than 5,000 Russian emergency workers are battling to put out wildfires raging across forestland in Siberia, officials said Tuesday. Over 1,250 square kilom...
Hundreds of firefighters battle wildfires in Portugal
Aug 09, 2015 (AFP)
Nearly 1,000 firefighters as well as six helicopters and three planes were deployed in Portugal Sunday to battle forest fires raging in the north and centre of ...
California ramps up battle against two dozen wildfires
Aug 05, 2015 (AFP)
Crews battling two dozen tenacious wildfires in drought-stricken California rushed in reinforcements Tuesday, using a window of humidity and cooler temperatures...
Amazon fire risk differs across east-west divide in 2015
Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, project fire risk for South America's Amazon Basin in 2015 to fall along an east-west divide. Accor...
California ramps up reinforcements to fight wildfires
Aug 05, 2015 (AFP)
Crews battling 22 tenacious wildfires in drought-stricken California rushed in reinforcements Tuesday and girded for weather that could ignite more fast-spreadi...
Southeast Asia sees little progress on haze as fires rage
Jul 28, 2015 (AFP)
Southeast Asian nations meeting Tuesday to discuss the problem of haze that shrouds the region's skies every year made little progress, as the number of smog-be...
2015 wildfire season could be Alaska's worst ever
Jul 27, 2015 (UPI)
There are currently 300 fires burning in Alaska, many of them slow and smoldering -- but alive, nonetheless. Some 4.75 million acres have already burned. Even m...
France forest fire spreads, firefighters step up fight
Jul 26, 2015 (AFP)
A forest fire raging in southwestern France was again advancing on Sunday afternoon because of strong winds, even as efforts to put out one of the country's wor...
Controlled burns encourage invasive grass
Jul 21, 2015 (UPI)
Controlled burns are used to prevent larger, uncontrollable wildfires, and as a strategy for promoting biodiversity and regenerative growth in deciduous forests...
Wildfire season spreading: study
Jul 14, 2015 (AFP)
The wildfire season globally has lengthened by almost 20 percent in 35 years as the average temperature has risen, a climate change study said Tuesday. "Fire we...
Spain wildfires burn more than 15,000 hectares
Jul 09, 2015 (AFP)
Forest blazes in Spain have ravaged more than 15,000 hectares this week as the country chokes in a record heatwave at the start of its wildfire season, official...
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