wildfires

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the last 20 years, disasters have claimed more than a million lives and caused nearly $3 trillion in…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain After an onslaught of about 150 lightning strikes hit one of California's most drought-stricken regions last…

The US state of California sued five of the world's largest oil companies on Friday, alleging the firms caused billions of dollars in damages and misled the public by minimizing the risks from fossil fuels, according to a court…

Meta is facing a backlash in Canada over its decision to block news sharing on its Facebook platform despite an ongoing wildfire crisis.…

Thousands more residents of Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands have fled their homes as a wildfire that authorities deemed “out of control” raged on for a fourth day.  Issued on: 19/08/2023 - 19:34…

A mobile morgue unit arrived Tuesday to help Hawaii officials working painstakingly to identify the remains of people killed in wildfires that ravaged Maui, as the death rose above 100 and teams intensified the search for more…

A Greek air force water-dropping plane crashed while diving into a wildfire in southern Greece on Tuesday, killing both pilots, as authorities battled blazes that have been raging for days across the country amid a return of…

The fires that have ravaged Greece and its idyllic islands for over a week are dredging up painful memories of previous catastrophes, like the Mati fire in 2018 that killed more than 100 people. Drawing from first-hand…

A plane fighting wildfires in Greece crashed on Tuesday as large areas of the Mediterranean sweltered under an intense summer heatwave, with Algeria battling to control an inferno that has killed at least 34 people.…

Wildfires raging across Algeria during a blistering heatwave have killed more than 30 people and forced mass evacuations, the government said on Monday. Issued on: 24/07/2023 - 22:16 3 min…