Tag Archives: Wildfires / forest fires

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A wildfire in California has forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes as it was largely undisturbed by densely forested mountains north of Los Angeles that finally burned 50 to 100 years ago, firefighters said Thursday. The frame of a car is burned as a fast-moving …

BRAZIL (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday angrily denied the existence of fires in the Amazon rainforest, calling it a ‘lie’, despite data produced by his own government showing thousands of fires in run the whole region. A Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) member …