カテゴリー: Wildfires
Residents of hundreds of homes in Iwate, northern Japan, have been ordered to evacuate after wildfires broke out on Wednesday. Fires burned more than 150 hectares of forest and damaged seven buildings in the rural area, Japan’s chief cabinet secretary …
As the Texas flash flooding risk moved west, the National Weather Service pointed to the effect of burn scars from 2024After the extreme rainfall in Texas on 4 July, the flash flooding risk moved to New Mexico, with 89mm (3.5in) of rain falling in the …
Police launch probe into a man suspected of accidentally starting the country’s worst wildfires in history while clearing his relatives’ gravesitesSouth Korean police have launched a probe into a man suspected of accidentally igniting the country’s wor…
The biggest forest fire on record in South Korea has displaced thousands, charred large areas and killed at least 26 people in the south-eastern province of North Gyeongsang, authorities say. The affected areas have had only half the average rainfall t…
Officials point to ultra-dry conditions as death toll reaches 27 and fires threaten Unesco heritage sitesAuthorities in South Korea are battling wildfires that have doubled in size in a day in the country’s worst ever natural fire disaster.At least 27 …
At least 18 people have died and another 19 have been injured as wildfires ravage South Korea’s southern regions amid dry weather and strong winds. The blazes have burned more than 17,400 hectares (43,000 acres) of land and destroyed hundreds of struct…
A 1,300-year-old Buddhist temple is among buildings destroyed after dry and windy weather saw mostly contained blazes spread againWind-driven wildfires that were among South Korea’s worst ever are ravaging southern regions, killing 18 people, destroyin…
Firefighters are struggling to contain a wildfire in north-east Japan which has been burning for seven days. A number of homes have been burned in a small coastal town near Ofunato city in Iwate prefecture, and thousands of people have been evacuatedLa…
Blaze in Ofunato has spread through 2,100 hectares of land, damaged dozens of homes and forced more than 1,000 to fleeAuthorities in Japan have warned that the country’s biggest wildfire in decades is likely to spread, after it damaged dozens of homes …
More than a thousand people have been evacuated near forest of Ofunato in northern region of IwateMore than a thousand people have been evacuated as Japan battles its largest wildfire in more than three decades.The flames are estimated to have spread o…
Alerts issued in Italy and China as wildfires rage in Greece, and temperature in California’s Death Valley nears global recordExtreme heatwave – latest news updatesTemperatures continued to reach extreme highs across many parts of the northern hemisphe…
Thai authorities struggle to contain forest fires, a persistent cause of air pollution during the dry seasonThe Chiang Mai authorities in northern Thailand will hand out face masks to the public as the province struggles with dangerously high levels of…
Portugal declares ‘state of contingency’ as France, Spain and Morocco also battle fires, while record heat hits China Thousands of people in Portugal, Spain, France and Morocco have been evacuated from their homes as firefighters tackle wildfires cause…
In March, the north and south poles had record temperatures. In May in Delhi, it hit 49C. Last week in Madrid, 40C. Experts say the worst effects of the climate emergency cannot be avoided if emissions continue to riseWhen the temperature readings star…