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Forest fires spread beyond control in the UK
The hot and dry weather during April, coupled with strong winds that caused many wildfires in the UK stretching from England, Northern Ireland to Scotland, forced the fi…
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16 provinces with extremely high risk of forest fires
Because many days without rain, dry weather lasts so many forests in 16 provinces are at risk of extremely dangerous fire (level V).
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Warming earth causes forest fires
Global warming is making the Northern Hemisphere forest fires become more frequent and intense, contributing to increasing the risk of climate change quickly.
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2010 is the record year of natural disasters
Floods in Pakistan, mass fires in Russia and super typhoons in Mexico show that natural disasters continue to set new records this year.
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America: Forest fire burns 136 houses
Big fire in the area around Fourmile gorge, near the town of Boulder, Colorado, USA, burned at least 136 houses. This is the most devastating fire in this state's histor…
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Forest fires will increase as the climate warms up
Because the climate warms up in the coming decades, atmospheric scientists at Havards' School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) and colleagues say that the frequ…
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Climate change relayed to Australia's sea of fire
Earth warming helps wildfires in southern Australia spread at breakneck speed, turning into a historic fire storm that killed more than 100 people.
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Why do so many Australians die from forest fires?
The recent fire storm caused the greatest loss of life in Australian history. The number of nearly 200 shocking deaths from forest fires is part of the kangaroo life
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Forest fire and ozone pollution
A new study concludes that forest fires can push ozone pollution to levels that exceed US health standards.
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Forest fire, Paraguay declared a state of emergency
On September 12, the Paraguayan government had to declare a state of emergency after many large forest fires burned over 100,000 hectares of forest and agricultural land…
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Forest fires in Algeria
About 55 hectares of forest and fruit trees were caught in the sea of wildfire on September 2 in Tzarifet, near Tlemcen, the border area of Algeria - Morocco.
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Unmanned aircraft against forest fires
NASA has collaborated with the US Forest and Water Management Agency to test new imaging technologies to combat forest fires.
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Greece: Forest fire, hundreds of tourists evacuated
On July 12, a large forest fire occurred on Greek island of Skiathos damaging many homes and forcing hundreds of tourists to evacuate. No information about casualties.
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Greece: intense forest fires
In the morning of June 29, the residential areas in Athens were no longer threatened by forest fires in Parnès Mountain, northwestern Athens due to windlessness and fire…
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America: forest fire in California
A fierce forest fire in Malibu, west of California, burned at least four villas by billionaires and Hollywood stars and caused heavy damage to five other villas.