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The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

The Week in Detail: Sex ed, wildfires, and migrant exploitation

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

Newsroom.co.nz

Louisiana residents told to ‘get out now’ in face of sweeping wildfire

Nearly 1,000 people in Merryville, in Beauregard parish close to Texas border, ordered to evacuate as Tiger Island fire burns nearby

The Guardian - US

Q&A: Maui wildfires ‘an acceleration of injustices’ long felt on island

Al Jazeera speaks to Kaniela Ing, director of Green New Deal Network, about devastating Hawaii blazes and what’s next.

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Satellite imagery captures wildfires breaking across Greece (photo)

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites are monitoring changes in the fire to aid civil protection and humanitarian response.

Space

Minister calls out ‘arsonist scum’ as 79 arrested over Greece wildfires

‘You will not get away with it, we will find you, you will be held accountable,’ climate minister vows

The Independent UK

Hawaii officials release list of 388 people missing after Maui wildfires

Fema teams with cadaver dogs scour rubble of the town as 46 victims so far identified of death toll of 115

The Guardian - US

Maui officials release 388 names of people unaccounted for in Maui fire

The names were released after Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said the FBI was working to "un-duplicate" people who were reported missing.

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Deaths in Greece wildfires highlight the plight of asylum seekers

Firefighters find 18 burned bodies in Dadia Forest, suspected to be asylum seekers, as wildfires ravage northern Greece.

Al Jazeera

Firefighters in Greece tackle more than 200 wildfires in 48 hours

Temperature records broken in France and red alerts issued in Italy as late summer heatwave continues in southern Europe

The Guardian - UK

Mapping the scale of Canada’s record wildfires

Canada is battling more than 1,000 active fires, and nearly two-thirds of them are out of control.

Al Jazeera

Rare ‘fire tornado’ caught on camera as Canada wildfires rage

Firefighters in British Columbia are tackling ferocious blazes caused by an unusual conjunction of atmospheric events

Evening Standard

European firefighters and planes join battle against wildfires that have left 20 dead in Greece

Water-dropping planes from several European countries have joined hundreds of firefighters battling wildfires raging for days across Greece that have left 20 people dead, while major blazes are also burning in Spain’s Tenerife and in northwestern Turkey near the Greek border

The Independent UK

Afternoon Update: experts warn of bushfire risk; Woodside activists restrained; and a Fyre festival reboot

Australians are being urged to prepare for the most significant fire season since the black summer bushfires

The Guardian - AU

In deadly Maui fires, many had no warning and no way out. Those who dodged barricades survived

As flames tore through a West Maui neighborhood, fleeing residents headed for the only paved road out of town in a dash for safety

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Biden hit with backlash for comparing Maui wildfires to almost losing his Corvette in a small house fire

The president and first lady visited Maui on Monday to meet with first responders, local officials and residents

The Independent UK

Canadian officials ease wildfire evacuation orders in scenic British Columbia region

Canadian firefighters have begun easing evacuation orders in a scenic region of British Columbia, with the prospect of better weather raising hopes for the battle to contain wildfires

The Guardian - US

Climate crisis made spate of Canada wildfires twice as likely, scientists find

Burning of fossil fuels made fires at least twice as likely, and the fire-prone weather at least 20% more intense, study shows

The Independent UK

CLIMATE GLIMPSE: Here's what you need to see and know today

Greece's miserable summer of wildfires has taken its deadliest turn with the discovery of 18 burned bodies where firefighters have been battling a blaze for several days

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After a summer of cyclones, are we ready for a summer of wildfires?

Scenes of mass destruction in Greece and Hawaii have shown us just how serious wildfires are.

The Independent UK

Some plants are more flammable than others. How gardeners can reduce the risks

The deadly wildfires in Hawaii this month were fueled in part by plants, in particular invasive grasses

Evening Standard

18 people found dead in area devastated by wildfire in Greece

The bodies are suspected to belong to migrants

The Independent UK

All the wildfires in Europe mapped as 20 killed in Greece and hospital evacuated

More than a dozen regions in Greece on high alert for fires today

The Independent UK

Eighteen bodies found in Greek forest hit by fire believed to be migrants

Hundreds of firefighters struggled Tuesday to control major wildfires burning out of control for days in northeastern Greece

The Conversation

Living with wildfire: How to protect more homes as fire risk rises in a warming climate

Humans have learned to fear wildfire. It can destroy communities, torch pristine forests and choke even faraway cities with toxic smoke.

Radio France Internationale

Two dead as Greece battles growing wildfire front

Greece on Tuesday was battling a growing wildfire front that killed two and forced widespread evacuations in the second deadly wave of fires in a month.

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