Wildfire

Climate related stressors like heat, wildfires, floods, droughts, diseases and rising sea levels affect education outcomes and threaten to undo educational gains of recent decade, according to the Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM).

The incident has caused widespread outrage in Greece, which is already grappling with multiple wildfires amidst its first heatwave of the year.

Wildfires in Canada that burned continuously for over a year. Floods that brought Dubai to a standstill. Deadly heat blanketing the streets of New Delhi.

A wildfire burning northwest of Los Angeles on Sunday has forced the evacuation of over 1,000 people from a popular outdoor recreation area and burned over 12,000 acres, authorities said.

Pollution from man-made emissions and other sources like wildfires have been linked to around 135 million premature deaths worldwide between 1980 and 2020, a Singapore university said Monday.

The incident reportedly occurred in the mountainous Muysky district of Siberia, a region currently grappling with extensive wildfires.

A volunteer firefighter and a Chilean forestry official have been formally accused by prosecutors with involvement in setting wildfires that engulfed central Chile this past February, killing over 130 people.

A large wildfire is slowly approaching the major Canadian oil sands city of Fort McMurray and around 6,000 people in four suburbs have been told to evacuate, local officials said on Tuesday.

A wildfire burning near Fort Nelson, in rural British Columbia has grown in size but is moving away from the town, offering some relief to residents who were forced to evacuate, a provincial wildfire service said on Tuesday.

Record-breaking heat last month that prompted governments in Asia to close schools offers fresh evidence of how climate change is threatening the education of millions of children.

A US power company admitted Thursday that its equipment may have sparked the largest wildfire in Texas' history.

Texas emergency crews were struggling Thursday to contain the largest wildfire in the US state's history, with the blaze killing at least two people and scorching a million acres as it raged out of control.

Scientists say the main driving factor for such a devastating event is simple: hotter temperatures.

The death count from central Chile's blazing wildfires jumped to at least 112 people on Sunday, after President Gabriel Boric warned the number would rise "significantly" as teams search destroyed neighborhoods.

Wildfires blazing across Chile have killed at least 46 people, officials said Saturday, leaving bodies in the street and homes destroyed as flames continued to spread.

Climate related stressors like heat, wildfires, floods, droughts, diseases and rising sea levels affect education outcomes and threaten to undo educational gains of recent decade, according to the Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM).

The incident has caused widespread outrage in Greece, which is already grappling with multiple wildfires amidst its first heatwave of the year.

Wildfires in Canada that burned continuously for over a year. Floods that brought Dubai to a standstill. Deadly heat blanketing the streets of New Delhi.

A wildfire burning northwest of Los Angeles on Sunday has forced the evacuation of over 1,000 people from a popular outdoor recreation area and burned over 12,000 acres, authorities said.

Pollution from man-made emissions and other sources like wildfires have been linked to around 135 million premature deaths worldwide between 1980 and 2020, a Singapore university said Monday.

The incident reportedly occurred in the mountainous Muysky district of Siberia, a region currently grappling with extensive wildfires.

A volunteer firefighter and a Chilean forestry official have been formally accused by prosecutors with involvement in setting wildfires that engulfed central Chile this past February, killing over 130 people.

A large wildfire is slowly approaching the major Canadian oil sands city of Fort McMurray and around 6,000 people in four suburbs have been told to evacuate, local officials said on Tuesday.

A wildfire burning near Fort Nelson, in rural British Columbia has grown in size but is moving away from the town, offering some relief to residents who were forced to evacuate, a provincial wildfire service said on Tuesday.

Record-breaking heat last month that prompted governments in Asia to close schools offers fresh evidence of how climate change is threatening the education of millions of children.

A US power company admitted Thursday that its equipment may have sparked the largest wildfire in Texas' history.

Texas emergency crews were struggling Thursday to contain the largest wildfire in the US state's history, with the blaze killing at least two people and scorching a million acres as it raged out of control.

Scientists say the main driving factor for such a devastating event is simple: hotter temperatures.

The death count from central Chile's blazing wildfires jumped to at least 112 people on Sunday, after President Gabriel Boric warned the number would rise "significantly" as teams search destroyed neighborhoods.

Wildfires blazing across Chile have killed at least 46 people, officials said Saturday, leaving bodies in the street and homes destroyed as flames continued to spread.