The start of the 2023 wildfire season has already begun, bringing with it the cycle of long duration incidents, exhausted and depleted ranks of firefighters trooping across the downs, dales and valleys of what used to be termed a temperate, maritime climate country. Changing weather patterns and...
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Around 35,000 people were under orders to evacuate their homes in western Canada's British Columbia on August 19, as a raging wildfire bore down on the city of Kelowna. The devastating fires in British Columbia and the Northwest Territories are just the latest in a summ...
Affected by high temperatures and droughts, forest fires broke out on Tuesday in the northern countryside of Syria's Latakia province. However, there is a serious shortage of supplies and firefighting work faces challenges due to years of conflict and sanctions from the U.S. and ot...
"indicate continued potential for higher-than-normal fire activity across most of the country throughout the 2023 wildland fire season. This is due to long-range forecasts for warm temperatures and ongoing drought, which are affecting parts of all provinces and territories and intensifying in some ...
"Canada's hottest summer in 76 years fuelled the country's most destructive wildfire season on record in 2023, when almost seven times more land than the annual average was burnt," reads the report. "The fires' scale and impacts highlighted the n...
2023). This has historically resulted in mistrust between the local communities and state agencies and has triggered fire ignitions as a retaliation, for example in Chyulu Hills forest (Kamau and Medley 2014). The colonial influence on PA management extends to wildfire management as well. For ...
Calgary, the largest city in Alberta, received a special weather alert, warning residents of poor air quality and reduced visibility due to wildfires. The Canadian environmental department advised people to avoid strenuous outdoor activities. According to the provincial government, there...
UK Wildfire Tactical Advisor, Craig Hope, said the risk had become "elevated" with climate change. He said:"It is very early in the summer and last year when we had the fires in London, that was extreme, but that was a lot later in the year. ...
War broke out in the Middle East and continued in Ukraine, Sir Elton John played his last ever UK show, and extreme weather stunned the world in the hottest year on record - 2023 was another historic year. Throughout the year, photographers managed to capture dazzlin...