Friday, 12 March 2021_Residents inspect the damage in Las Golondrinas village in Chubut province after forest fires ripped through Argentine Patagonia, leaving at least seven people injured and 15 more missing, according to official sources.
Nine people have been killed and 10 hospitalized as a series of forest fires swept through part of the eastern Ukrainian region of Lugansk, the emergency service says.
The first tanker of a three-vessel Iranian flotilla carrying much-needed fuel for Venezuela has entered waters of the South American country in clear defiance of sanctions imposed on both countries by the US.
Forest fires continued spreading in the exclusion zone near Chernobyl's former nuclear power station, footage filmed on Sunday shows, despite the ongoing efforts to extinguish the flames.
TEHRAN, Nov 3_Illegal loggers in the Amazon ambushed an indigenous group that was formed to protect the forest and shot dead a young warrior and wounded another, leaders of the Guajajara tribe in northern Brazil said on Saturday.
TEHRAN, Apr 27 - Tree cover tropics shrank by 30 million acres in 2018, the fourth largest decline since record keeping began in 2001, according to new data compiled by scientists with the World Resources Institute.
TEHRAN, Jan 2 - Ecologists at the Santa Fe Institute have identified nine forest vital signs, measurable traits among trees and tree stands, that best showcase the influence of climate on forest health.
TEHRAN, August 27 - Malaysia will not allow foreigners to buy residential units in the $100-billion Forest City project in its southern state of Johor bordering Singapore, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Monday.
TEHRAN, August 25 - Authorities in northeast Germany issued evacuation orders Friday as a forest fire consumed nearly 1,000 acres and periodically set off munitions left behind during World War II.
TEHRAN, July 16 - A team of researchers have determined that the ability of North American forests to sequester, or soak up, carbon over the next 60 years is 22 percent -- in the best case scenario.
At least 61 people have died in a wildfire still raging in central Portugal, most of them trapped in their cars by flames as treacherous wind drove the blaze beyond firefighters’ control.
The government has declared Sunday through Tuesday national days of mourning for the victims of a fire "which has caused an irreparable loss of human life."