Tag: wildfires

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Trump denies climate change in California; Biden called him a “climate arsonist”

  

  President Donald Trump on Monday suggested global warming will reverse itself and dismissed climate change as a cause of ferocious fires engulfing swaths of the US West, during a briefing in California on the deadly blazes.

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  NASA pictures show the world's largest wetland lost to fires sweeping across Brazil

  

  A record amount of the world's largest tropical wetland has been lost to the fires sweeping Brazil this year, scientists said, devastating a delicate ecosystem that is one of the most biologically diverse habitats on the planet.

• Friday, September 4th 2020 - 09:08 UTC

  Arctic Circle wildfires carbon pollution reaches record levels, EU Earth program

  

  This year's Arctic Circle wildfires, still ablaze, have already surpassed the record set in 2019 for CO2 emissions, adding to the carbon pollution humanity needs to curtail, the European Union's Earth observation program said on Thursday.

• Friday, November 1st 2019 - 09:01 UTC

  Wildfires ranging across Brazil's Pantanal wetlands

  

  Wildfires are raging across the Pantanal tropical wetlands in southern Brazil, one of the most biodiversity areas in the world and a major tourist destination, regional authorities said on Thursday.

• Monday, October 28th 2019 - 08:48 UTC

  California declares emergency as wildfires blaze across the state

  

  California's governor declared a state-wide emergency on Sunday as a huge wind-fuelled blaze forced evacuations and massive power blackouts, threatening tourist towns in the state's famed Sonoma wine region.

• Friday, October 25th 2019 - 08:41 UTC

  Uncontrolled wildfire raging through wine territory in California

  

  About 50,000 people were ordered to flee their homes north of Los Angeles on Thursday as a fast-moving wildfire driven by high winds erupted and raged out of control. The so-called Tick Fire near Santa Clarita, about 55km north of Los Angeles, broke out in the early afternoon and quickly consumed 5,000 acres, fire officials said.

• Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:42 UTC

  Heavy rain helps put out the fires in Bolivia that have ravaged millions of hectares

  

  Heavy rain that has drenched eastern Bolivia's Chiquitania tropical savanna has put out fires that have ravaged millions of hectares in recent months, authorities said on Sunday.

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 08:46 UTC

  Precious fauna perished in weeks of wildfires in Bolivian forest and grassland

  

  More than two million wild animals, including jaguars, pumas and llamas, have perished in weeks of wildfires that devastated huge swathes of Bolivian forest and grassland, environmental experts said on Wednesday. The fires devastated the Chiquitania tropical savanna in the east of the country.

• Tuesday, September 10th 2019 - 09:52 UTC

  Bolivia's Morales alliance with large farming interests (and Amazon deforestation) could cost him his re-re-reelection

  

  In the tropical Bolivian city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, a wealthy farming hub on the edge on the Amazon rainforest, President Evo Morales gathered with ranchers late last month to celebrate a maiden shipment of beef to China.