Tag: #Wildfires
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The Summer Fires
Margalla Hills first and now Pabbi Kharian, it doesn’t come with a surprise. Perhaps this is a sequel to a change in the changing climatic conditions we witness yearly. This warrants more rains, flooding, and even raging fires that can engulf areas leaving a verdant paradise into ash and dust. As this cataclysmic change kicks…
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The Effects of Global Warming
The temperature on our planet is on the rise. If human experience is anything to go by, this may then be the hottest year. The downside to it may well be an increased wave of wildfires in different parts of the world taking place intermittently after short intervals of time which heralds an accelerated pace…
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Horrific Nova Scotia wildfires force thousands of Canadians to flee their homes
Wildfires are continuing to burn across the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, scorching hundreds of buildings and forcing thousands of residents from their homes. As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 16,000 people had evacuated from areas around the capital Halifax that were under an earlier mandatory evacuation order. No injuries or missing people had been…
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3 missing and feared dead after Colorado wildfires
Official says the three missing people all lived in homes consumed by the wind-stoked urban wildfire
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Brazil wildfires kill approximately 17 million animals
Brazil: The Brazilian wildfires killed about 17 million animals in their wake. Scientists in Brazil concluded a particularly grim conservation study – attempting to count the animals killed by huge wildfires in the Pantanal wetlands. They estimate that as many as 17 million vertebrates – including reptiles, birds and primates – died. Wildfires burned between…
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Wild fires in southern France cause thousands to evacuate
About 750 firefighters and water-dropping aircraft battle the blaze in difficult conditions with high temperatures and strong winds
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Turkey floods: 27 dead as flash floods sweep northern Turkey
An 80-year-old woman is reported missing in Bartin province, says the country’s Disaster and Emergency Management, AFAD
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Number of Wildfires in Brazil Increase!
Rio de Janeiro, Jan 3 (AFP/APP): The number of wildfires in Brazil increased 12.7 percent last year to a decade-high, according to official figures likely to add to pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro’s government over the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. There were a total of 222,798 wildfires across Brazil in 2020, the highest number…
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Death toll rises as wildfires ravage the United States
15th September: Death toll in the United States has risen after the wildfires have not yet been contained yet. Baaghi TV: The forest fires in the United States have not been brought under control so far, as a result of which the death toll has risen to 33, while millions of people have been displaced.…
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Bolivia wildfires torch two million hectares since August: official
La Paz, Sept 10 (AFP/APP):Wildfires in Bolivia have torched two million hectares (4.9 million acres) of forest and grassland since August, including some environmentally protected areas, officials said Monday. One cabinet minister decried the “macabre game” of fires being put out, then reset behind the backs of firefighters by “saboteurs.” Cinthia Asin, environmental minister for…