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              Wildfires

              • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
                FT Money personal finance guides
                FT Money guide: Greek wildfires and your holiday rights

                Holidaymakers heading to Rhodes and Corfu this summer could struggle to get a refund

              • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
                Dozens die in Algerian wildfires as temperatures soar towards 50C

                Blistering heat across Mediterranean region spreads to dry and mountainous parts of north Africa

                People looking at burned out vehicles
              • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
                Climate change
                European and North American heatwaves ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change

                World Weather Attribution researchers forecast more frequent extreme weather events

                People pour water on a woman, affected by the high temperature as she visits the Acropolis in Greece
              • Monday, 24 July, 2023
                Greece
                Repatriation flights begin for tourists stranded on Rhodes

                Greek authorities battle against blazes in four different areas of the country

                A wildfire blazes in Corfu
              • Sunday, 23 July, 2023
                Greece
                Greece mounts mass evacuation from wildfire-hit Rhodes

                Some tour operators have cancelled flights to island after 19,000 flee, with Corfu also suffering

                Evacuees sit inside a stadium following their evacuation during a forest fire on the island of Rhodes
              • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
                FT Magazine
                Extreme wildfires are here to stay. Can human beings really fight them?

                Fighting for survival, and hope, on a permanently hotter planet

                A fire fighter and truck are seen against a terrifying backdrop of giant orange flames as a bushfire rages in New South Wales, Australia.
              • Friday, 9 June, 2023
                Canadian wildfire smoke jars New York with ‘movie of the future’

                Mayor blames climate change as pollution from burning forests disrupts schools, flights and shows

                People walk through haze in New York’s Central Park on Wednesday
              • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
                Smoke pall spreads from Canadian wildfires

                Flights temporarily halted into New York and Philadelphia as air pollution disrupts daily routines

                The US Capitol in Washington shrouded in smoke
              • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
                Wildfire smoke makes New York air quality worst in world

                Plumes from burning Canadian forests move across North American cities and force residents indoors

                New York’s George Washington Bridge wreathed in smoke from the Canadian wildfires
              • Saturday, 13 May, 2023
                Climate change
                Wildfires in forests of Canada and Russia put climate scientists on alert

                Unusual drought conditions in Alberta temporarily shut oil and gas production

                Aerial view of forest fire
              • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
                Climate change
                Wildfires in boreal forests release record levels of carbon, satellite study shows

                Burning trees across Eurasia and North America emitted 1.76bn tonnes of CO₂ in 2021

                A helicopter dumps water on a wildfire in British Columbia, Canada
              • Wednesday, 10 August, 2022
                The Big Read
                Wildfire season: How to stop California burning

                In the Napa Valley, private groups and local businesses are doing what they can to mitigate fire risk

              • Saturday, 30 July, 2022
                Climate change
                Climate graphic of the week: US heat and drought coincide with historic climate bill

                Soil dryness helps fuel rising temperatures in the normally temperate Pacific Northwest

              • Saturday, 30 July, 2022
                Lex
                Carbon counter: the cost of wildfires Premium content

                If nature has an economic value, then wildfires linked to climate change must have an economic cost.

                Smoke rises from the forest due to a wildfire in Orosh, Mirdite, Albania
              • Friday, 22 July, 2022
                The Big Read
                Can cities adapt to an era of extreme heat?

                Urban centres across Europe are seeking solutions as record summer temperatures threaten to become an annual event

                An elderly man talks on the phone as he walks past a burned car after wildfires swept through Panorama Voulas area, south of Athens
              • Friday, 15 July, 2022
                News in-depth
                Wildfires rage across Portugal as intense heatwave grips Europe

                Dangerous blazes are becoming more common as climate change brings winter droughts and very hot summers

              • Saturday, 9 July, 2022
                Climate graphic of the week: Dry, hot Europe fuels 2022 fire season

                Large parts of the continent measure low levels of soil moisture as temperatures reach 1.6C above average in June

                Several forest firefighters of the INFOCA during an operation to extinguish a fire in the area of ​​Cerro de San Miguel in Granada, Spain
              • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
                InterviewGreece
                Greece’s first climate crisis minister prepares for summer heatwave

                Christos Stylianides is stepping up efforts to combat wildfires in the wake of last year’s devastating blazes

                Christos Stylianides
              • Friday, 17 December, 2021
                Climate change
                California hit by record rain and heavy snow months after severe fires

                Storm system causes mudslides and prompts evacuations in the south of US’s most populous state

                A major storm hits California with rain and snow flooding streets
              • Thursday, 16 September, 2021
                Union Pacific Corp
                Wildfires and ‘violent’ weather leave railroad giant facing $100m bill

                Union Pacific chief says ‘climate change looks quite real to us’ as company forced to rebuild bridges

              • Friday, 20 August, 2021
                News in-depth
                Europe seeks solutions as it grapples with catastrophic wildfires

                Dealing with climate change will require modifications to the way people live and how land is used

                Locals watch the wildfire outside the village of Kamatriades, on Evia island, Greece, on August 9
              • Friday, 13 August, 2021
                Climate change
                California struggles to control fire devastation wrought by global warming

                Dixie wildfire has already scorched 2,065 sq km of land and is only 30% contained

                Following the Dixie fire, flames burn in a tree in the Canyondam area of Plumas County, California on August 6
              • Tuesday, 27 July, 2021
                News in-depthClimate Capital
                ‘Year-long fire season’ stalks California’s Paradise

                After the state’s deadliest blaze, firefighters are using a new modelling system to tackle wildfires

                A business burns as the Camp Fire moves through the area on November 8, 2018 in Paradise, California
              • Friday, 2 July, 2021
                Climate change
                ‘Like someone throwing fire on your face’: heatwave engulfs Pacific Northwest and Canada

                Much of North America is enduring record high temperatures as questions arise over society’s preparedness for extreme weather

                A wildfire burns in Lytton, British Columbia
              • Friday, 11 December, 2020
                Legal services
                Legal collaboration led to PG&E deal for victims of wildfires

                Payout result was possible thanks to creative thinking in the utility bankruptcy. Plus: case studies show the changing practice of law

                California wildfires: ‘time, value, money and speed is everything for the people who have lost everything’, says lawyer Robert Julian
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