Teenage 'Superman' joins wildfire fight
PALANGKARAYA, Indonesia (AFP) — Dressed as his favorite superhero, Indonesian teenager Rudiyansah walks along a charred landscape, helping douse wildfires that…
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PALANGKARAYA, Indonesia (AFP) — Dressed as his favorite superhero, Indonesian teenager Rudiyansah walks along a charred landscape, helping douse wildfires that…
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The government says cloud seeding, which uses substances such as silver iodide and salts to trigger rain, could help douse fires and rewet flammable peatlands.
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France, Greece, Portugal and Spain were also battling major fires over the weekend.
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More than 48,000 personnel have been deployed to fight fires in six provinces, while 43 helicopters and up to 15 fixed-wing aircraft have been mobilized for…
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Fires around Porto Germeno appear to have affected an area of over 10,000 hectares
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NAVALUENGA (AFP) — Firefighters in France and Spain raced Tuesday to contain massive wildfires before another heat wave forecast to bring hotter temperatures…
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The unprecedented fires in France and Spain were fuelled by forests left tinder dry by successive heatwaves.
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LEGE-CAP-FERRET, France (AFP) — Luggage-clad residents and tourists fled a French peninsula by boat and the smell of smoke drifted into parts of Madrid on…
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PARIS (AFP) — The world may be headed for a year of unusually severe wildfires driven by climate change and a potentially strong El Niño event, researchers…
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Many of the residents ‘were saved from the fire because they ran to the beach.’
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Spain this year sweltered through its hottest summer ever, the national meteorological agency AEMET said Tuesday, the latest in a string of global temperature…
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Spain on Thursday mourned its third wildfire death this week and Greece began beating back a blaze threatening its third-largest city as an…
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Las Médulas (AFP) — A young boy died of heatstroke in Italy while wildfires threatened a UNESCO site in Spain and French cities saw record temperatures, as a…
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Two years after a historically destructive wildfire season, Canada is once again grappling with widespread blazes that have already burned more land than the…
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The Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) is tapping two South Korean firms for infrastructure projects in New Clark City, Tarlac, and Poro Point,…
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The suspect’s daughter reportedly told investigators that her father tried to burn tree branches that were hanging over the graves of his grandparents with a…
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The destructive wildfires that hit South Korea are almost contained, according to Korean authorities on 28 March, following rains and cooler temperatures that…
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