Tag: Wildfire

• Sunday, July 7th 2019 - 11:17 UTC

  WWF warns on “super fires” afflicting Europe and calls for forestry management

  

  Global conservation group World Wildlife Fund (WWF) warned on Thursday of the risks from new faster-spreading “super fires” in the wake of heat waves and droughts that have been afflicting Europe in what many see as a symptom of climate change.

• Wednesday, November 14th 2018 - 08:44 UTC

  California fire fighters manage containment lines; official death toll is 48 and dozens remain missing

  

  Crews battling a deadly wildfire in northern California have managed to hold their containment lines, the state fire service says. They have contained 30% of the fire, stretching over 125,000 acres (50,500 ha), but do not expect to contain it fully until the end of the month.

• Wednesday, January 31st 2018 - 09:29 UTC

  NASA satellite keeps track of wildfires in Argentina

  

  Roughly 12,000 wildfires burn each year in Argentina, charring more than 1.3 million hectares (5,000 square miles) of forest and grasslands. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured an image of one of them on January 29, 2018.