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When nature's fury meets history, the consequences can be devastating. This video takes you through the impact of forest fires on rural communities and their heritage. Let's shine a light on the ...
A special commission tasked with addressing land disputes and Indigenous rights in Chile delivered a historic final report to ...
Eighteen football pitches every minute of every hour of every day: that is the record extent of tropical rainforest destroyed ...
As a result, Bolivia lost 14,800 square kilometres of forest in 2024, the second-most of any country, up 200% from 2023. It ...
It lasted more than 45 days and burned thousands of hectares of forest ... shared by both Chile and Argentina. The remains of a house burned during the voracious fire of March 9, 2021, at the ...
It was deployed during the 2010 Carmel forest fire—one of the deadliest ... it was used to contain the 2017 Thomas Fire, among others. In Chile, it helped extinguish some of the worst wildfires ...
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The forest service and the National Disaster Prevention Service (Senapred) reported more than 4,000 hectares going up in flames. In recent years, Chile has been hit by massive fires during the ...
The pilot killed in the crash was later identified as 58-year-old Fernando Solans Robles of Spain, according to the local government in Maule, Chile, which said Robles was fighting a forest fire.
In this Feb. 3, 2024, file photo, a resident flees an encroaching forest fire in Vina del Mar, Chile. Esteban Felix/AP, FILE A concurrence of a drought and heat wave is a "horrible" cocktail for ...
Elías Antonio Salazar, 39, is accused of deliberately starting a series of forest fires in Chile that killed 137 people and destroyed 2,000 homes in February, triggering an official ‘state of ...
In early 2024, Chile suffered its worst wildfire season ... but these fires are lower intensity and emit less carbon than forest fires.) Burn severity—an indicator of how badly a fire damages ...