The latest global State of Wildfires report, co-led by the University of East Anglia, shows that the extreme fire-prone ...

Wildfires have been hitting Europe this summer. In France and Spain alone, more than 320,000 people had been evacuated as of late July. Wildfires continue as heatwaves spread with mid-August ...

From Spain and France, to Portugal, Greece and Italy, the list of European countries affected by particularly severe wildfires is long. It even includes colder states such as the UK, Ireland and ...

Increasingly hot, dry and windy conditions could substantially extend the area affected by wildfires across Europe, according to a new study led by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ...

Europe is continuing to battle a series of devastating wildfires as the continent faces more sweltering conditions and worsening droughts, with thousands forced to flee their homes. In France, ...

Historic wildfires scorched huge areas of Spain and France, with one Spanish blaze burning an area about the size of New York City and a French fire generating a rare, towering fire cloud. A dangerous ...

MADRID (AP) — Extended drought conditions in several Mediterranean countries, a heat wave last week that reached northern Germany and high fuel costs for aircraft needed to fight wildfires have ...

The vast blazes ripping through southwestern France burned so intensely they created a powerful, fire-generated thunderstorm. This rare phenomenon is sometimes seen in the kinds of megafires that ...

When a wildfire broke out in the Müritz National Park of north-eastern Germany in July, it was no routine firefighting job. Bomb disposal teams had to work alongside firefighters because the forest ...

Europe's wildfire problem now carries an unexpected risk from the past. As blazes sweep through forests and dried-out riverbeds, they're setting off or uncovering unexploded munitions left behind by ...

The wildfires burning across Europe this summer have exposed a potentially deadly threat lurking beneath the blackened landscape: rusty bombs and mines from World War I and II that threaten crews ...