California Wildfires Put Vegas Under Air Quality Warning
Southern Nevada is spending Labor Day weekend under an air quality advisory thanks to wildfire smoke from California. The Clark County Department of Air Quality on Sunday issued the warning for potentially elevated levels of ozone and smoke through Monday. Several wildfires burning in central and southern California triggered the advisory, although officials said unhealthy levels of pollution aren’t currently occurring in the Las...
Russian pilots put out 17 wildfires endangering Portugal
Seventeen blazes, charring a total area of 2,000 hectares in Portugal, have been extinguished by the Russian Emergencies Ministry’s aircraft over the past two weeks, the ministry’s press service has informed TASS. “During this period, the Emergencies Ministry’s aircraft dropped over 1,000 tons of water making 89 discharges. They extinguished a total of 17 infernos with a total area of nearly 2,000 hectares and prevented the...
The Latest: 2 Wildfires in Northern California Expand
The Latest on wildfires in the U.S. West (all times local): 8:30 p.m. Two wildfires burning in Northern California have expanded a bit but fire crews have made some gains and increased containment. The blaze burning near the scenic Big Sur region of California has charred almost 73 square miles by Wednesday evening. It is 25 percent contained. Officials are asking for the public’s help to find whoever started the campfire that...
Around 50 wildfires on area of 6,500 hectares registered in Siberia
The area of wildfires in Siberia has grown from 4,700 to 6,500 hectares over the last 24 hours. A total of 47 forest blazes is currently active in the region. Most wildfires were registered on the territory of the Krasnoyarsk Krai. According to the forest fire protection service , 16 wildfires on the area of around 2,900 hectares were registered there, and three wildfires were localized on the territory of 1,200 hectares. “Most...
Siberia’s wildfires seen from 1 million miles away: even the tundra is burning
Greenpeace claim authorities underestimate the scale of destruction, amid warnings of lack of resources to fight fires. These exceptional images show how the smoke trails of wildfires over Siberia can be seen from outer space. The pictures were made by the EPIC camera on NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft some 975,074 miles – or 1,569,229 kilometres from Earth on 21 July this year. Hovering between the Earth...
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