Muğla’s population evacuated by sea amid fears fire could spread to coal inside Kemerköy plant A coal-fired power station in south-west Turkey and nearby town on the Aegean Sea were evacuated late on Wednesday as a deadly wildfire reached inside the pl…
‘The very worst things we could imagine’: a terrifying documentary on US wildfires
In Bring Your Own Brigade, British film-maker Lucy Walker takes us back to the California tragedies of 2018 and a crisis that continues to rage on“In the Christian imagination,” says Lucy Walker’s voiceover, “hell is fire pits, it’s being burned alive….
‘I came home to fight for my land’: First Nations battle Canada blaze that displaced them
First Nations leaders seek more influence on how forests are managed, and the right to conduct prescribed burnsWhen Tyler Vander Griend saw thick black smoke rising above the village of Lytton in western Canada, his first instinct was to run towards th…
‘A perfect storm’: Hawaii firefighters confront Big Island’s largest wildfire in history
As immediate danger recedes, blaze serves as a warning of what’s to come amid worsening climate crisisFirefighters on Hawaii’s Big Island in recent days battled the biggest brush fire that has ever burned on the island, wrangling a blaze that has torch…
‘We do what the Red Cross won’t’: a day in the life of a wildfire Relief Angel
A team of volunteers have been soliciting donations and distributing them to wildfire victims in the Pacific north-westValerie O’Dai takes a drag from her cigarette at a donation site in Bly, Oregon, black sunglasses on, ash smeared across her face. Sh…
Climate crisis has cost Colorado billions – now it wants oil firms to pick up the bill
ExxonMobil and Suncor face lawsuits in the western state but big oil’s apologists say the US consumer is to blame for emissionsMore than a decade after the Fourmile Canyon blaze drove even the firefighters out of Gold Hill, blackened hillsides and scor…
Top seeds: artists capture global efforts to future-proof nature – in pictures
Scientists, ecologists and artists have collaborated to showcase global work to protect seeds in an exhibition at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & art gallery (Ramm) in Exeter.Seedscapes: future-proofing nature runs until 5 September Continue rea…
Oregon firefighters make progress in battle against largest US wildfire
Containment of Bootleg Fire was up to 74% on Sunday22,000 firefighters battling 91 large, active wildfires in USFirefighters in Oregon have reported good progress in the battle against the nation’s largest wildfire, while authorities canceled evacuatio…
Tourists evacuated from Pescara as Italy records more than 800 wildfires
Wildfires burn across Italy, Spain, Greece and Turkey in heatwave bringing temperatures above 40CAt least five people have been wounded and holidaymakers evacuated after wildfires devastated a pine wood near a beach in Pescara, Italy, as one of the wo…
Tourists rescued from burning Med resorts by flotilla of boats
Six dead from wildfires raging across Turkey, Italy and Greece as temperatures hit 40CHolidaymakers have been evacuated from beaches by rescue boats in Turkey after wildfires threatened hotels in the Aegean resort of Bodrum.Coastguard vessels were join…