Tag: wildfires

    Wildfires sweep Turkey’s southern coast: four people dead
    01 Aug 2021

    More than 70 wildfires have broken out this week in provinces on Turkey’s Aegean and Mediterranean coasts and inland areas, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, adding that 14 were still burning, Gulf-Times reports. The death toll from wildfires on Turkey’s southern coast has risen to four, and firefighters were battling blazes for a third day […]

    Siberia wildfires: Russia army planes and thousands of firefighters battle blazes
    15 Jul 2021

    About 800,000 hectares of forest destroyed so far in region enveloped by smoke as Russia suffers through ‘abnormal heatwave,’ The Guadian reports. Russia’s army has sent water-bombing planes to support thousands of firefighters battling huge wildfires in Siberia, a region known for its frozen tundra that is now sweltering under a heatwave. Flames are tearing […]

    California’s wildfires are outpacing last year’s record-breaking season
    15 Jul 2021

    The number of wildfires in California to date this year is greater than the amount recorded in the same period in 2020 — a year which saw more burned acreage than any recorded year in history, according to data from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, also (CAL FIRE). Between January 1 to […]