Authorities in Greece closed the Acropolis and other ancient sites during afternoon hours starting on Tuesday, August 3, 2021, as a heat wave scorching the eastern Mediterranean worsened.
Firefighters have gotten more control over a wildfire in Hawaii that forced thousands of people to evacuate over the weekend and destroyed at least two homes on the Big Island, but officials warned strong winds Monday could raise the danger again.
British Columbia is reporting a slight increase in the number of active wildfires but cooler temperatures and forecasts of rain could bring some relief.
Firefighters were battling to control blazes that tore through forests near Turkey’s beach destinations for the sixth day running on Monday, August 2, 2021, as water-carrying planes from the European Union prepared to join the containment efforts.
President Joe Biden is sounding the alarm about the need for more resources to fight a series of wildfires in western states, as climate change has worsened the spread and ferocity of the blazes.
In the next few years, scientists will scrutinize the Sycan Marsh to see how the Bootleg Fire reacted to different types of forest management, which will help people understand how to tame wildfires.
Cooler weather on Tuesday, July 27, 2021, helped calm two gigantic wildfires in the U.S. West, but a tally of property losses mounted as authorities got better access to a tiny California community savaged by flames last weekend and to a remote area of southern Oregon where the nation's largest blaze is burning.
British Columbia's public safety minister heaped praise on 100 firefighters from Mexico who arrived in the province on Saturday, July 24, 2021, to work "shoulder to shoulder" with local crews battling hundreds of wildfires.
