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by Marianne Barriaux and Thomas Cabral Agence France Presse PEDROGAO Grande , Portugal (AFP) — More than 1,000 firefighters were on Monday battling to get control of a massive forest fire that swept through central Portugal at the weekend, as the nation mourned the 64 killed in the flames. Many victims were burnt as they were trapped in their cars around the epicentre of the blaze in Pedrogao Grande, in what is the deadliest such […]
https://youtu.be/V5qLUUCMra8 by Philippe SIUBERSKI Halle, Belgium (AFP) — A carpet of bluebells bursts into flower in Belgium in a wonder of the natural world — but one that is at risk of being trampled by tourists drawn to its beauty. For two or three weeks in April the ground of the Hallerbos wood just outside the drab capital of Brussels is transformed into a breathtaking sea of shimmering purple. “The scene is like in a […]
SAN JOSE, Antique (PIA) – – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources called for community vigilance to prevent forest fires especially that summer months have come. Joining the campaign of the Bureau of Fire Protection on fire prevention, Information Officer Joery Ocson of DENR Community Environment and Natural Resources Office in Belison, Antique in an interview said that they are stepping up the construction of fire lines and patrol works in the sites of […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Long before European settlers arrived in the Americas in 1492, the Amazon rainforest was transformed for thousands of years by indigenous people who carved mysterious circles into the landscape, researchers said Monday. While the purpose of these hundreds of ditched enclosures, or geoglyphs, remains unclear, scientists say they may have served as ritual gathering places. Modern deforestation — coupled with aerial photographs of the landscape — helped reveal some 450 […]
VICHUQUEN, Chile (Reuters) — The worst wildfires in Chile’s modern history which are ravaging wide swaths of the country’s central-south regions, have destroyed the homes of at least 140 families who had already lost their homes in the country’s massive 2010 quake and tsunami. Most of the affected families are from the hard-hit Maule region, local media reported. Fifty-two-year-old Cecilia Correa lost her home in the town of Vichuquen. Correa had fled the coast after […]
SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — Authorities have detained 43 people suspected of stoking some of the deadly Chilean forest fires that have killed 11 people and destroyed large swaths of land, President Michelle Bachelet said Sunday. For nearly two weeks, fires have raged across seven regions in the south and central Chile, devastating more than 400,000 hectares (988,000 acres), Bachelet said in her latest update on the tragedy. She added that 43 people had been detained […]
SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — Raging forest fires in central Chile have killed 10 people, displaced thousands and destroyed entire villages, the government said Thursday. Multiple blazes fueled by strong wind and drought conditions have ravaged 273,000 hectares (680,000 acres) in just over a week. The latest fatality was a fireman killed when a tree fell on his truck in the Biobio region 550 kilometers (340 miles) south of the capital Santiago, the regional government said. […]
by Miguel SANCHEZ Agence France Presse SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — Vast woodland fires in the center and south of Chile have caused “the biggest forestry disaster in our history,” President Michelle Bachelet said Monday, canceling a trip abroad to supervise the emergency. A total of 130 square kilometers (500 square miles) have been charred, mainly in sparsely populated rural areas, according to the National Emergency Office. Although most of 150 fires that broke out this […]
