Wildfires
Wildfire breaks out east of Rome, locals evacuated
Locals were evacuated from small communities around 40 km (25 miles) east of Rome on Friday when a wildfire broke out as…
Italian wildfires rage on after 49 degree heat record
Fires stoked by hot winds swept through southern Italy on Thursday, a day after a monitoring station in Sicily reported temperatures of…
California wildfire wreaks more destruction as temperatures rise
An enormous wildfire raging across Northern California for nearly a month has burned down another 550 homes, fire officials said, becoming one…
Greek villagers mount vigil to save homes as wildfires burn for eighth day
Residents mounted a round-the-clock watch on Tuesday to try to save their homes from wildfires ravaging the Greek island of Evia as…
Greek PM approves 500 million euro budget for wildfire relief, reforestation
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday he had approved a supplemental budget of 500 million euros ($587 million) to fund…
Blaze ravages Greek island of Evia, Firefighting plane crashes in Zakynthos
Thousands of people have fled their homes on the Greek island of Evia as wildfires burned uncontrolled for a sixth day on…
#HelpTurkey under investigation for ‘spreading fear’ about wildfires
Prosecutors in Turkey have launched an investigation into a social media hastag critical of the government’s allegedly bungled response to the country’s…
Blaze ravages Evia island on sixth day of Greek wildfires
housands of people have fled their homes on the Greek island of Evia as wildfires burned uncontrolled for a sixth day on…
Eight missing as massive Dixie fire rages in northern California
At least eight people were missing as one of the worst wildfires in the nation scorched through Northern California communities, forest and…
Thousands flee Greece blazes as wildfires sweep through Mediterranean
Thousands of people fled their homes on the outskirts of Athens on Friday and hundreds were evacuated by boat from the nearby…
Turkey spent only fraction of forest protection budget before wildfires erupted
Turkish authorities battling the country's worst ever wildfires have been accused of failing to prepare for the threat after official data showed…
Hundreds evacuated by sea from island as Greek wildfires rage
Hundreds of people were evacuated by boat from an island near Athens as Greece braced for a fourth day of wildfires on…