Aveiro, Portugal - September 16, 2024 More than 5,000 firefighters have been tackling the wildfires that Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro said are raging across the country. Video ...

Reuters footage showed local residents pouring buckets of water on advancing flames near the town of Nelas about 50 km (31 miles) east of Aveiro. There were 48 active wildfires in mainland ...

Firefighters tackling deadly wildfires in central and northern Portugal had doused the flames in the Aveiro district, one of the worst-hit, as of Thursday, and were focusing on eight large blazes ...

Conditions are so ripe for fires to spread out of control that today the National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning in certain areas of the United States, including right up to the ...

GREEN COUNTRY, Okla. — People in several areas were encouraged to evacuate due to the spread of wildfires. Emergency officials urged people in Osage and Payne counties to evacuate after high ...

Oct. 9, 2024 — Civil and environmental engineering researchers conducted unique live fire experiments to study the kinematics of firebrands, burning embers cast off from wildfires that cause ...

This article was originally featured in The Conversation. Wildfires are becoming increasingly destructive across the U.S., as the country is seeing in 2024. Firefighters were battling large blazes ...

Some states, including California, outlawed controlled burns, and in 1905, the U.S. government made fighting wildfires at all cost its policy. The benefits of controlled burns are well established ...

As of Saturday, more than a dozen wildfires were blazing across the mountain West state, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Outside the state capital Boise, several fires in the ...

Wildfires aren’t going away, but our ability to detect and track them — and maybe catch them early enough to prevent serious damage — is getting better. OroraTech is taking a space-based ...

Streaks of high temperatures in the 80s combined with worsening drought conditions are contributing to an extended wildfire season in Minnesota. A state forest in east-central Minnesota remains ...

Forecasters predict temperatures to be 5.5-11C (10-20F) above normal, potentially posing a risk to human health and the environment from resulting wildfires. Linking climate change with specific ...