forest fires

LIMA—Peruvian President Dina Boluarte declared a state of emergency on Sept. 18 in three regions affected by devastating forest fires that have burned through swathes of the nation’s Andean and ...

SANTIAGO, Chile—Firefighters wrestled Sunday with massive forest fires that broke out in central Chile two days earlier, as ...

One of Quebec's youngest mayors announced on Nov. 8 she will be stepping down next week, suffering the ...

To plant more than 4,500 trees in one day, you don't move like a gardener, you move like ...

In a top 100 ranking of poor air quality and pollution in cities around the world, Toronto ranked ...

Lawmakers engaged in a heated debate over a resolution that would dictate strategies to mitigate the increasing threat ...

Quebec's natural resources minister says wilderness firefighters are now taking the offensive against the province's forest fires instead ...

Quebec Premier François Legault says his government doesn't have the capacity to fight all of the forest fires ...

The deputy mayor of a southern Newfoundland town says his community is running out of food as it ...

Energoatom, a Ukrainian regulatory agency that operates nuclear power plants in the country, warned on Monday that forest ...

Scientists studying forest density in the Sierra Nevada have found that trees there were scarcer but physically larger ...

With Northern California fires continuing to burn and devastate structures, the state imposed a mandatory one-year moratorium that ...

California's wildfires are threatening to burn some of the state's famous and gigantic groves of old-growth sequoias in Sierra ...

LOS ANGELES—Angeles National Forest officials announced Wednesday that the ongoing forest-wide emergency closure order for the Angeles, Cleveland, ...

MOSCOW—Russian authorities started to evacuate two villages in a vast region of Siberia where 155 active forest fires ...

Californians are rushing to buy generators as worries of potential blackouts—triggered by heat waves and forest fires—linger. “The ...

Australian eucalypt forests are resilient to bushfires, with 70 percent of plants found to be able to make ...

California wildfires caused nearly $150 billion in economic losses in 2018, according to a recently-released study partially conducted ...

KYIV—Eight people were killed and 10 have been hospitalized as a series of forest fires swept through part ...

President Donald Trump moved forward with policies aimed at preventing catastrophic wildfires while the media breathlessly covered the ...