The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

Across the globe, many recent severe wildfires have moved from wildlands into the urban periphery (the “wildland urban interface”). In their wake, they’ve left death, destruction and disruption. This has led to questions about the extent to which climate change is to blame.

French government says fire season is starting earlier because of climate change

A wildfire destroyed nearly 1,000 hectares on the French-Spanish border on Sunday and early Monday, authorities said, as parts of southern Europe remain gripped by a drought that is raising fears of a repeat of last summer's exceptional conflagrations.

France’s government is sounding the alarm about the growing risk of forest fires because of climate change, as hundreds of firefighters in the country’s parched south wrestle with their biggest woodland-destroying blaze so far this year

"Wildfires are a threat to people, property, wildlife and the countryside"

Maxine Imrie vividly remembers the day in 1991 when a grassfire started on the edge of Tullibigeal while its firefighters were away putting out another blaze.

Authorities say a fire that tore through 6 square miles of New Jersey’s Pine Barrens this week has now ben fully contained

A massive 3,800-acre forest fire in Ocean County, New Jersey is about half contained as officials continue to battle flames

The bereaved, survivors and locals to receive damages relating to 2017 tragedy in west London

A coronial inquiry into one of the devastating Black Summer bushfires is due to resume following months of delays.

People living in Hamburg, Germany, were told to close their windows, turn off ventilation and air conditioning after a huge fire broke out in the Rothenburgsort district at 4.30am on Sunday