Two wildfires, fanned by strong winds, raged out of control near Athens on Monday (16 August), forcing the evacuation of villages, but there were no immediate...
Italian police arrested two farmers in Sicily on Saturday on suspicion of lighting recent wildfires to create grazing land for their sheep, and said the two...
Fires stoked by hot winds swept through southern Italy on Thursday (12 August), a day after a monitoring station in Sicily reported temperatures of 48.8 Celsius...
Exhausted Greek firefighters battled blazes for a ninth day on Wednesday (11 August) amid sweltering temperatures that also helped stoke wildfires in Algeria, where at least...
A big blaze that swelled overnight in the Peloponnese peninsula forced the evacuation of many villages as exhausted firefighters battled wildfires across Greece for a ninth...
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis apologized on Monday (9 August) for failures in tackling the devastating wildfires that have burned across Greece for the past week...
A home is seen fully engulfed in flames during the Glass Fire in St. Helena, California, U.S. September 27, 2020. REUTERS/Stephen Lam Extreme heat waves that...