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FILE PHOTO: A firefighter runs as he helps to put out a forest fire next to Fontao, Portugal September 6, 2019. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante
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High risk of widespread wildfires across Europe this year, EU says

The Commission, the EU executive arm, expects the situation will get much worse over Europe’s summer

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire burning at the Biebrzanski National Park near Bialystok, Poland April 22, 2020. Grzegorz Dabrowski/Agencja Gazeta via Reuters
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Poland's biggest nature reserve fights largest fire in years

A geiger counter measures a radiation level at a site of fire burning in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, outside the village of Rahivka, Ukraine April 5, 2020. Picture taken April 5, 2020/ Reuters
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Fire raging near Ukraine's Chernobyl poses radiation risk

In this Nov. 10, 2018, file photo, a firefighter sprays water on a controlled burn while fighting a wildfire in Magalia, Calif. The outbreak of the coronavirus is making the US Forest Service and others change strategies for fighting wildfires, as the need for isolation and social distancing comes into play against the necessity of having firefighters work and live closely together. File Photo: AP via UNB
Coronavirus chronicle

Coronavirus forces new approaches to fighting wildfires

Smoke rises after fires burn through the Amazon rainforest in Rondonia state, Brazil, on August 24, 2019. Photo Bloomberg
Environment

Catastrophic fires released billions of tonnes of CO2 in 2019

A gardener waters plants inside the newly restored Victorian Temperate House in Kew Gardens, London, Britain, May 3, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo
Environment

UK's Kew Gardens to help protect Australia's bio-diversity after wildfires

Pedestrians hold umbrellas during wet weather in Sydney, Australia, February 7, 2020. AAP Image/Peter Rae/via REUTERS
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Australia welcomes drought-easing drenching, even as it brings floods

An Australian Army combat engineer from the 5th Engineer Regiment utilises a JD-450 Bulldozer to spread out burnt woodchip at the Eden Woodchip Mill in southern New South Wales, Australia, in support of Operation Bushfire Assist, January 11, 2020. SGT Bill Solomou/Australian Department of Defence/Handout via Reuters
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Australian PM proposes high-powered inquiry into bushfires response

Cars are seen evacuating from Lakes Entrance prior to the road closure along the Princes Highway outside Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia, January 4, 2020. AAP Image/James Ross via Reuters
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Australian police charge 24 people of deliberately setting bushfire

Firefighters battle a wind driven wildfire in the hills of Canyon Country north of Los Angeles, California, US October 24, 2019. Reuters/Gene Blevins
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Year's most destructive California wildfire declared extinguished after two weeks

A house burns during wildfires in San Bernardino, California, US October 31, 2019 in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. Photo: 564FIRE via Reuters
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Easing winds give firefighters a break in California wildfire battle

A burning structure is seen during the wind-driven Kincade Fire in Windsor, California, US October 27, 2019/ Photo: Reuters
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Thousands ordered to flee fast-moving Los Angeles wildfire

Firefighters battle a wind-driven wildfire called the Saddle Ridge fire in the early morning hours Friday in Porter Ranch, California, US, October 11, 2019/ Reuters
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One dies as Los Angeles wildfire forces 100,000 to flee