Tag: fires

• Tuesday, November 19th 2019 - 05:29 UTC

  Hazardous levels of pollution in Sydney as bushfires advance on Australia's largest city

  

  Sydney was shrouded in dangerous haze on Tuesday as smoke from bushfire blazing along Australia's eastern board sent contamination levels soaring in the country's biggest city.

• Thursday, September 5th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Bolivia admits forest fires has destroyed 1.7 million hectares

  

  Wildfires raging in Bolivia's forests and grasslands since May have destroyed 1.7 million hectares, officials said on Wednesday, amid a US$11 million effort by the government to contain them.