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wildfires
Wildfires are uncontrolled fires that burn in wildland areas, such as forests, grasslands, or brush, often caused by natural factors like lightning or human activities like arson. They can cause widespread destruction to ecosystems, property, and human life, and generate hazardous smoke and pollutants.
Why it’s in the news: Wildfires are in the news due to their devastating impact in multiple countries, including deadly blazes in Algeria, prolonged fires in Indonesia causing regional health crises, and new research revealing long-term environmental risks in places like Maui.
Latest on wildfires
- Algeria introduces death penalty for arsonists after deadly wildfires
- Indonesia’s neighbors powerless as smoke from monthlong wildfires shuts schools
- Risk from toxic metals can persist months after wildfires, Maui study finds
- Smog scuppers Japan force helping fight Indonesia wildfires
- Indonesia’s Prabowo mulls labelling wildfires as ‘ecological terrorism’
- Air quality across Singapore reaches unhealthy levels from Indonesian wildfires
- The wildfires, Indonesia's worst in 11 years, began in August and spread smoke to Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines.
- West Kalimantan has been the worst affected, with air quality levels exceeding 48 times the safe limit.
- 166,000 evacuated as wildfires spin out of control in France and Spain
- flames whipped up by strong winds and boosted by drought tore through tinder-dry forests
- Parts of the United Kingdom are at "exceptional" risk of wildfires as the heatwave continues
- Indonesians sue president over haze – can it clear the air?
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