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Wildfires

  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    News in-depth
    The iconic LA neighbourhoods reduced to ashes

    Home of Hollywood struggles to cope after thousands of homes and businesses are destroyed

    A satellite image of burning homes in Altadena, Los Angeles County, on Wednesday
  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    US & Canadian companies
    Devastation and subrogation

    California’s wildfire fund could face a test

  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    Moral Money
    How California wildfires are hitting the state’s housing market Premium content

    Insurance companies have refused to renew policies for hundreds of thousands of homes in recent years

    Fires burn in the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California, during a powerful windstorm
  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    Winds add new threat as deaths from LA fires reach 10

    Firefighters make some progress in Hollywood Hills after new blaze puts show business sites at risk

    Smoke obscures the Hollywood sign on Thursday as firefighters battled a fire nearby in the Hollywood Hills
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Los Angeles wildfires rage out of control leaving at least 5 dead

    Strong winds spread blazes as more than 100,000 residents ordered to evacuate

    Los Angeles County firefighters pull a hose in front of a burning home north-east of Los Angeles
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    LA residents flee as fire engulfs wealthy Palisades enclave

    Authorities order evacuations in coastal neighbourhood as strong winds fan flames

    A U.S flag flies as fire engulfs a structure while the Palisades Fire burns during a windstorm on the west side of Los Angeles
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    EU co-ordinates record response to wildfires

    Civil Protection Mechanism has been activated 29 times this year as Europe becomes world’s fastest warming continent

    Volunteers try to extinguish a wildfire in northern Athens on August 12 2024
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    Athens residents evacuated as wildfires spread near capital

    Wall of flames over 25 metres high is encroaching on Greek city

    Local residents cry as they try to save some belongings during a wildfire near Penteli, on August 12
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    Climate change
    Californian fires burn trees in company carbon schemes

    Forestry programmes part of climate plans are under threat from intense blazes

    A firefighter monitors backfire during the Park Fire in Tehama County’s Mill Creek area of California on August 7
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    Wildfire intensity rises across northern hemisphere

    Boreal forest blazes are being fuelled by warmer and drier conditions across Russia, Canada and the northern US

  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Wildfires rage in Canada’s oil hub

    Blazes put more than 2mn barrels a day of supply at risk amid geopolitical tensions in Middle East and Russia

    Smoke and flames from the fire in Fort McMurray, Alberta this week
  • Monday, 4 March, 2024
    Texas battles second-largest wildfire in US history — in winter

    Blazes driven by strong winds and unseasonably dry and warm conditions

    Homes burned by the wildfire
  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    Berkshire Hathaway Inc
    Buffett sounds wildfire alarm as utilities industry enters new era

    Berkshire Hathaway ‘will not knowingly throw good money after bad’, billionaire says as damages pile up

  • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
    Oil & Gas industry
    California accuses Big Oil of covering up climate change risks in lawsuit

    Civil action seeks damages to help mitigate costs of global warming caused by fossil fuels

    Firefighters spray water in the Sequoia National Forest, California
  • Friday, 1 September, 2023
    Europe Express
    EU politicians want more disaster relief funds after floods and fires Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: the EU’s enlargement debate genie is very much out of the bottle

    Volunteers clear mud as household goods are piled on the side of a street in Faenza, Italy
  • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
    Climate change
    Wildfires expected to spread beyond traditional danger zones, scientists warn

    Researchers forecast fire seasons that are longer, hotter and more difficult to control

    A wildfire burns in a forest near the village of Sikorrachi, west of Alexandroupolis, Greece
  • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
    Greece
    Wildfires in northeastern Greece claim 18 lives

    Authorities say victims could be migrants as residents had been advised to evacuate area

    Volunteers help an elderly man as a house blazes in the background
  • Saturday, 19 August, 2023
    Climate change
    ‘One climate disaster after another’: North America’s long hot summer

    From Hawaii to Canada, searing heat and deadly wildfires are raising the alarm about global warming

    The McDougall Creek wildfire burns on the mountainside above a home in West Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada on Friday
  • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
    Lex
    Hawaiian Electric/wildfires: old business models are no longer viable Premium content

    Climate disasters were previously events utilities could withstand

    Downed power lines in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii after the wildfires
  • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
    US politics & policy
    Biden to visit Hawaii amid criticism of wildfire response

    Travel plan emerges after president ended Delaware beach holiday

    Fire damage in the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii
  • Monday, 14 August, 2023
    Hawaii wildfire death toll expected to continue rising

    US state governor warns final number of dead could be ‘impossible to guess’

    A man walks through wildfire wreckage in Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii
  • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
    Deadliest US wildfires in a century claim 93 lives in Hawaii

    Toll expected to continue rising after blazes sweep through tropical island of Maui

    A man surveys a charred apartment complex in Lahaina
  • Friday, 11 August, 2023
    Death toll from Hawaii wildfires climbs to 55

    Firefighters are still battling multiple blazes across Maui, which have destroyed homes and businesses

  • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
    Hawaii
    Hawaii wildfires kill 36 as hurricane hampers rescue efforts

    Firefighters battle multiple blazes on Maui island that have destroyed homes and businesses

    A charred boat lies in the scorched waterfront after wildfires fanned by the winds of a nearby hurricane devastated Maui’s city of Lahaina, in Hawaii
  • Friday, 4 August, 2023
    Climate change
    Canada’s emissions from wildfires more than double previous record

    Scientists note abnormal intensity of blazes as temperatures rise faster in northern hemisphere

    Aerial view of the Horsethief Creek wildfire, approximately 10kms (6.2 miles) west of Invermere, British Columbia, Canada
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