Tag: fires

Wednesday, July 17th 2024 - 07:45 UTC
Brazil has 96% of Pantanal fires under control

Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva said Tuesday that at least 96% of the fires in the Pantanal, Pantanal, a natural region encompassing the world's largest tropical wetland area and the world's largest flooded grasslands, had been put out or were under control, Agencia Brasil reported. She made the announcement alongside fellow Ministers Simone Tebet (Budget and Planning) and Waldez Góes (Integration and Regional Development) in Corumbá, in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul.
Tuesday, February 20th 2024 - 15:19 UTC
Argentina: Fires in Patagonian National Parks close to being controlled

Firefighters in the Argentine National Parks of Los Alerces and Nahuel Huapi were closer Monday to “controlling” and “containing” part of the catastrophe. In Los Alerces, there were still active outbreaks in addition to some 8,000 hectares of native forest burned down, it was reported.
Tuesday, March 14th 2023 - 09:38 UTC
Amazon fires grip 90% of the area in first two months of 2023

According to a report issued Monday by the Fire Monitor, an initiative of the Annual Mapping Project of Land Use and Land Cover in Brazil (MapBiomas) in partnership with the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), the Amazon biome concentrated 90% of its areas with fires, representing 487,000 hectares. In the first two months of 2022, the area totaled 654,000 hectares. In the country's six biomes - Amazonia, Caatinga, Cerrado, Atlantic Forest, Pampa, and Pantanal - there were fires over 536,000 hectares.
Tuesday, January 11th 2022 - 20:19 UTC
Consecutive fires hit Chilean town of Iquique

A fire in Iquique, in the Tarapacá region, has left some 400 Chileans homeless, including 15 injured Monday, but no fatalities were reported. But when things seemed to be getting back to normal, a second fire not far from the previous one added to the locals' nightmare.
Wednesday, August 26th 2020 - 09:50 UTC
Fires are raging in several Argentine provinces fueled by strong winds and persistent drought

Fires are raging in Argentina’s Cordoba province, prompting evacuations and threatening to destroy homes, fueled in part by strong winds and a lack of rain, officials said on Monday.
Thursday, April 30th 2020 - 07:37 UTC
Brazilian Vice President says army will be deployed to fight Amazon deforestation and fires

Brazil plans to deploy its armed forces to fight deforestation and fires in the Amazon jungle, Vice President Hamilton Mourão said on Wednesday; in an effort to protect the world’s largest rainforest where destruction has surged since last year.
Monday, January 13th 2020 - 09:56 UTC
Bush fires scorching Australia threaten PM Scott Morrison political survival

After weeks of criticism over the handling of the bushfires scorching Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday he will propose a national review into the response to the disaster, as the fires claimed another firefighter's life.
Tuesday, January 7th 2020 - 09:40 UTC
Australia cloud smoke reaches Chile, Argentina and is expected in Uruguay

The cloud of smoke caused by raging bushfires in Australia has been spotted more than 12,000km away in Chile and Argentina, weather authorities in the South American countries said on Monday. Meteorologists in Uruguay expect the cloud in the next 24 hours.
Monday, January 6th 2020 - 09:24 UTC
Bushfires in Australia threaten the dairy industry; “thousands of cattle have been lost”

Bushfires across Australia's east coast are set to pile on more pain for the country's dairy industry, already hurt by a prolonged drought, as processors in one of the world's largest exporters face tightening milk supplies.
Monday, January 6th 2020 - 09:23 UTC
Australian troops deployed to help in three states; bushfires destroyed an area the size of Ireland

Reserve troops were deployed to fire-ravaged regions across three Australian states on Monday after a torrid weekend that turned swathes of land into smoldering, blackened hellscapes.