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Climate change: Europe heat sparks harmful ozone pollution, 'extreme' fire risk
Record temperatures, which scientists say are driven by climate change, are predicted in France and Britain Tuesday as suffocating heat that has gripped southwest Europe and sparked ferocious wildfires moves northwards.
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Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other blazes combined
Siberia is so vast that huge fires can burn without threatening any major settlements, transportation systems or infrastructure — but are still part of a swath of infernos that together are larger than all the other blazes around the world. And that's a lot of CO2 into the air.
Fire devours Greek island's forests; residents urged to flee
Pillars of billowing smoke and ash turned the sky orange and blocked out the sun above Greece's second-largest island Sunday as a days-old wildfire devoured pristine forests and encroached on villages, triggering more evacuation alerts.
Australian wildfires force thousands in Mallacoota to seek refuge on the beach and in the water
Thousands of people in the southeastern seaside town of Mallacoota were forced to seek refuge on the beach and even boats in the water early Tuesday as deadly blazes closed in around the popular holiday destination to create an apocalyptic-looking scene of huddled evacuees under dark-red skies.