Portugal is battling more than 100 wildfires in its northern regions, stretching firefighters to their limits and resulting ...

Portugal fires: Varzeas mourns villagers who fled Civil ... The week's highest temperatures in the area are expected to reach about 38C (100F) and, together with windy conditions, could reignite ...

Portugal forest fire Four firefighters are among the 54 people injured in the fire, which is raging in several parts of a mountainous area some 200km north-east of the capital Lisbon. There are ...

For three days in mid-September, wildfires rapidly tore through ... and a quarter of its total forested area. Proportional to its size, Portugal has more eucalyptus than any country in the world.

Two buses and seven vehicles were set on fire, in total, overnight, in various areas of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, a ...

At least seven people have died after wildfires in the Aveiro and Viseu areas of Portugal, although cooler weather has helped tackle the flames. Dozens of homes have been destroyed and tens of ...

The death toll from two weeks of record blazes rose to 16 when a firefighter, who had been burned in a forest fire in central Portugal last ... through a hilly inland area of dense forest.

Portugal entered a state of alert ... The Serra da Estrela Natural Park has been hit by five major fires since July that affected 25% of its total area and caused “very significant negative ...

Rural fires in Portugal: until when will the landscape burn?, which gives a picture of the recent fires in Portugal and presents a set of recommendations for governments, managers and forest owners to ...

This year's burned area is more than double the size of ... engineering at Spain's Lleida University, said the large fires France and Portugal suffered in early July were "extremely unusual ...

Leaf blowers, jet washers and all-terrain vehicles are among the new equipment being introduced to tackle wildfires in rural ...

According to Inra, almost 60 percent of the fires affected forests and 40 percent pastures. According to the report, 6.3 million hectares burned in 2023. Number of fires tripled According to data ...