While the Greek government has been quick to blame global warming for the summer's devastating wildfires, some experts argue that poor planning is at least as much to blame.The European Commission has said that the blaze in the Dadia national park, w...

Joanna Schlosser found refuge from advancing wildfires at a winery where she works, but is now dealing with a tourism downturn and other wide-ranging fallout on the business -- and Canada's economy.An inferno jumped Okanagan Lake and was barreling do...

Meta is being accused of endangering lives by blocking news links in Canada at a crucial moment, when thousands have fled their homes and are desperate for wildfire updates that once would have been shared widely on Facebook.The situation "is dangero...

A new global biodiversity fund aimed at ramping up critical nature restoration and renewal -- objectives set out at a UN summit last year -- was ratified Thursday by the international community.At a gathering in Vancouver, Canada and Britain announce...

As Greece was hit by wave after wave of wildfires this week, unfounded claims that asylum-seekers are behind some of them whipped up anti-migrant frenzy online.The speculation intensified after a group of 13 Pakistani and Syrian men were accused by l...

Spanish firefighters were set to deploy extra aircraft in their battle against raging Tenerife wildfires on Saturday, as renewed heat and wind threatened recent progress in bringing the blaze under control.The blaze, which has forced 4,500 people to...

A firefighter has died battling one of the massive blazes devastating Canada's forests this year, British Columbia's premier announced on Saturday.It marked the third death of a firefighter during this devastating wildfire season."I amdevastated to l...

The fight against deadly wildfires raging in Greece for more than a week is improving, the fire service said on Friday, warning it remained on alert as fierce winds were forecast that could rekindle blazes.Hundreds of firefighters are battling flames...

As Canada hurtles towards its worst wildfire season in history, a conspiracy theory has taken off online claiming environmentalists intentionally set some of the blazes."I bet a good portion of the wildfires raging across the country were started by...

Thousands of people were ordered to evacuate their homes in northern California on Friday as a wildfire spread rapidly across more than 1,000 acres in extremely hot conditions.Footage from a local ABC affiliate news channel showed several buildings a...

By AFPAt least 26 people died and dozens of others were injured in forest fires that ravaged 14 districts of northern Algeria on Wednesday, the interior minister said.Kamel Beldjoud told state television that 24 people lost their lives in fires in El...

By AFPHundreds of firefighters battled a blaze in northern Spain on Sunday that forced hundreds to evacuate and devastated swathes of land, officials said.The fire was raging in the Aragon region where around 300 firefighters are trying to contain th...