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Dozens of bushfires flare in Australia
Sep 10, 2013 (AFP)
Dozens of bushfires erupted in Australia on Tuesday with six firefighters injured battling fierce infernos in western Sydney that destroyed two homes and which ...
Illegal Fires Set in Indonesia Cause Smog Problem
Sep 10, 2013 (SPX)
Widespread wildfires are lighting up Indonesia, but these fires were not started accidentally. These fires were set deliberately to clear land for palm oil comp...
Wildfires projected to worsen with climate change
Sep 10, 2013 (SPX)
Research by environmental scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) brings bad news to the western United States, where firefi...
Portugal calls for more help to tackle deadly forest fires
Aug 26, 2013 (AFP)
Portugal appealed for further international aid Monday to tackle forest fires raging in the country's north and centre, with 30-metre flames towering over villa...
Hundreds battle Spain forest fires
Aug 23, 2013 (AFP)
More than 200 firefighters battled flames stretching across wooded hillsides in northwestern Spain on Friday in a blaze that forced the evacuation of about 300 ...
California emergency as huge Yosemite fire rages
Aug 23, 2013 (AFP)
A huge wildfire raged unchecked near California's famous Yosemite National Park on Friday, threatening thousands of homes as officials declared a state of emerg...
Climate change said driving force behind larger, more extreme wildfiresz
Aug 01, 2013 (UPI)
Climate change is likely behind the larger and more frequent extreme wildfires being experienced in the U.S. West, researchers say. More of the unpredictable an...
Haze from Indonesian fires returns to Malaysia
Jul 22, 2013 (AFP)
Haze blanketed parts of Malaysia on Monday, weeks after the region suffered its worst pollution from forest fires in Indonesia in more than a decade. Three area...
Palm Springs wildfire sparks evacuation order
Jul 18, 2013 (AFP)
Some 6,000 residents have been ordered to evacuate in the face of a raging wildfire near Palm Springs in California, officials said Thursday. Nearly 3,000 firef...
Indonesia set to ratify haze treaty by early 2014
Jul 17, 2013 (AFP)
Indonesia said Wednesday it hopes to ratify a regional treaty by early next year to fight smog from forest fires that brings misery to millions, but an activist...
Haze-hit nations say ASEAN meet unlikely to clear the air
Jul 15, 2013 (AFP)
Officials from five Southeast Asian nations met Monday to discuss the hazardous smog that blights the region every year, but the worst-hit countries have held o...
No quick dousing of haze woes despite early ASEAN meet
Jul 14, 2013 (AFP)
Southeast Asian nations gathering to discuss the annual shroud of hazardous smog that blights the region are unlikely to find any immediate solutions, despite a...
Wildfires may contribute more to global warming than previously predicted
Jul 11, 2013 (SPX)
Wildfires produce a witch's brew of carbon-containing particles, as anyone downwind of a forest fire can attest. A range of fine carbonaceous particles rising h...
Indonesia firefighters 'overwhelmed' by Sumatra blazes
Jun 21, 2013 (AFP)
Firefighters battling blazes on Indonesia's Sumatra island that have cloaked Singapore in record-breaking levels of smog are "overwhelmed" and unable to cope, a...
Study helps managers identify regions with multiple threat potential, including wildfires
Jun 14, 2013 (SPX)
A recent study in the Journal of Forestry now offers managers a tool to help them identify regions exposed to multiple forest threats. The tool uses a novel 15-...
Colorado fires destroy homes, thousands evacuated
Jun 12, 2013 (AFP)
Forest fires raged Wednesday across the western US state of Colorado, destroying dozens of houses and forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents. High tem...
Climate Conditions Determine Amazon Fire Risk
Jun 11, 2013 (SPX)
Using an innovative satellite technique, NASA scientists have determined that a previously unmapped type of wildfire in the Amazon rainforest is responsible for...
Suspect named in China bus fire that killed 47: report
Jun 08, 2013 (AFP)
An arsonist who wanted to "vent personal grievances" is suspected to have caused a horrific bus blaze in China which left 47 people dead, state media said Satur...
China fire survivors tell of 'sea of flames'
Jun 04, 2013 (AFP)
Survivors of an inferno at a Chinese poultry processing plant told of their desperate attempts to save others, as relatives of the 119 people killed demanded an...
China poultry plant fire kills 119: local government
Jun 03, 2013 (AFP)
At least 119 people were killed in a fire which swept through a poultry processing plant in northeast China on Monday, local officials said, in what appeared to...
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