NATURAL DISASTER: A figure that will continue to rise in the coming weeks, according to government data released on Saturday More than 10 million hectares of forests have burned this year in Canada, a figure well above anything the country has ever seen and one that will continue to rise in the coming weeks, according to government data released […]
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470 forest fires are still active in Canada. On Sunday 25th June 2023, the air quality was rated as the worst in the world. Hundreds of firefighters arrive as reinforcements Acrid smoke covered Montreal on Sunday with a veil due to the still active forest fires in Canada, making the city the most polluted air in the world, according to a […]
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This Friday 31st July 2020, the department of Sarthe was placed at “extreme” risk concerning forest fires, the highest level of vigilance. During this last week of July, many fires took place in Sarthe. As for temperatures, they reached nearly 38 degrees this Friday 31st July 2020. To this day, the department was placed under “extreme” risk for forest fires, said the prefecture. The highest level […]
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A fire broke out in southern Corsica on Tuesday 4th February 2020. Nearly 900 hectares have already been ravaged by flames, fuelled by storm Hervé. Water bombers and firefighters from the continent took action Wednesday 5th February 2020 in Corsica against a fire fanned by the winds of the storm Hervé, which ravaged several hundred hectares of forest and scrub […]
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According to a joint study by WWF and a researcher from the University of Sydney, 1.25 billion mammals, reptiles, birds, frogs and invertebrates have died. A massacre. The fires that have ravaged Australia since September 2019 have killed, directly or indirectly, 1.25 billion animals, according to a joint study by WWF Australia and a researcher from the University of […]
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Dozens of fires are still out of control in Australia. A further rise in temperatures, accompanied by strong winds, is expected on Friday 10th January 2020. Firefighters redoubled their efforts Tuesday 7th January 2020 to regain control of gigantic forest fires in Australia, taking advantage of punctually less unfavourable weather before a new heatwave in the coming […]
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Locals and tourists are fleeing New South Wales on Saturday 4th January 2020, as weather conditions threaten to further aggravate the devastating forest fires. Tens of thousands of Australians were evacuated Saturday 4th January 2020 their homes to flee forest fires exacerbated by catastrophic weather conditions. Temperatures exceeded 40 ° C on Saturday and strong winds were blowing, stoking hundreds of forest fires most […]
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The Australian Navy has evacuated hundreds of people, trapped in their city by devastating forest fires, causing at least 20 deaths. The Australian Navy began Friday 3rd January 2020 the evacuation of hundreds of people trapped in a city in the southeast surrounded by fires, on the eve of a weekend for which the country fears further […]
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This extremely serious forest fire in the Canaries arrived with a heat wave and is still unchecked, despite the intervention of hundreds of firefighters. Hundreds of firefighters remained mobilized in the night of Monday to Tuesday on the tourist island of Gran Canaria, to fight against “the most important fire” which occurred this year in Spain, according to the government. […]
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Six hundred hectares have gone up in smoke since Friday with the Forest Fires in the Southwest of France. The President in the Var region earlier today, Monday called for everyone “to be vigilant everywhere in France” and launched a “call for common sense behaviour […] because it’s carelessness and stupidity that explains most often […]
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