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Wildfire Rages Through Suburbs of Athens, Greece
Wildfires have been wreaking havoc over the past few weeks, as several fires — like the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire in New Mexico — continue to burn. Greece is currently battling another wildfire that began on Saturday in the area surrounding Athens, and it is only one of the 61 different wildfires that were active…
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Biden Declares New Mexico Wildfires a Disaster
There are multiple fires currently burning across the U.S. Southwest. The largest is a megafire in northern New Mexico’s San Miguel County called the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak fire, which has burned more than 165,000 acres of forest and grassland and is only 20% contained. The fire began as two separate blazes but combined into one…
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Crisis at Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Escalates as Forest Fires Spread
Ukraine’s parliament said in a statement Monday that satellite imagery had revealed at least seven fires in the forested area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. These fires are within 10 kilometres of the defunct plant itself, making them particularly “dangerous,” according to the statement. The parliament said Ukraine firefighters have been unable to beat…
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Wildfires Are Blazing Through Argentina
Argentina is on fire. For weeks, firefighters have battled the flames that have burned some 800,000 hectares in total, with about 30,000 hectares burning each day, Al Jazeera has reported.