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Wildfires

October 2024

  • A bushfire in Wanneroo, Western Australia

    Indigenous cultural burning managed Australia’s bushfires long before colonisation. It’s needed now more than ever, a study says

  • firefighters walk in a forested area

    Firefighters were elated after a federal bill provided them support for cancer. Then came ‘a slap in the face’

  • A hillside engulfed by flames.

    ‘Danger in my back yard’: residents in a wildfire-prone California town eye more Yosemite tourism with unease

  • A ferry passes the Sydney Opera House as smoke haze from bushfires in New South Wales blankets the city

    Smoke pollution from wildfires may be killing an extra 12,000 people a year, new research suggests

  • Hundreds evacuated in Oakland after California brush fire grows out of control

  • Wyoming rangers stop blowing up dead horses due to wildfire risk

  • Potentially lifesaving Blue Mountains fire trails obstructed as bushfire season begins

  • Hellish heat and primal fear: Croatian firefighters on frontline of climate crisis

  • US emergency crews struggle as climate crisis fuels ‘unprecedented’ competing disasters

  • Harsh terrain, extreme fatigue. Life as a wildland firefighter in a heatwave: ‘It’s not normal for humans’

  • Smokey air, nonstop nosebleeds. Life as a warehouse worker in a heatwave: ‘Products matter more than people’

  • Wildfires are burning through humanity’s carbon budget, study shows

September 2024

  • Burnt-out vehicles at a car showroom

    ‘Absolute chaos’: counting the cost of a deadly wildfire in northern Portugal

  • View through trees at aqua blue river amid pines.

    ‘We can feel our ancestors’: one First Nation’s fight to save Canada’s old forests

  • The front of a house leans forward into the waters of a swollen river

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    Weather tracker: Extensive flooding in Japan after ‘unprecedented’ rainfall

  • fire fighters walking through charred woods

    California fire agency engineer arrested on suspicion of starting five wildfires

  • ‘He just had the greatest time’: California zoo animals returned home after wildfire evacuation

  • ‘It’s guerrilla warfare’: Brazil fire teams fight Amazon blazes – and the arsonists who start them

  • Wildfires ravaging northern Portugal – in pictures

  • Wildfires rage across Portugal – video

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