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Smoke in Australia

Environment

Smoke from Australia's bushfires has spread to South America

Satellites show atmospheric pollution created by the fires across New South Wales and Queensland has travelled more than 10,000 kilometres to Chile and Argentina

News

Helicopter putting out a fire

Environment

Sticky fluid can be sprayed on grassy verges to prevent wildfires

News

Burning rainforest

Environment

Beef-eating consumers are helping drive Amazon deforestation

Analysis

Aerial shot of the Amazon rainforest

Environment

It's officially now the worst ever August for Amazon deforestation

News

Bolsonaro

Environment

Arctic and Amazon climate tipping points put our future in doubt

Leader

Siberia wildfire

Environment

The pyrocene has begun: How to tackle a world of raging wildfires

Insight

Fire

Environment

Record Amazon rainforest fires spark row between Brazil and France

News

A view of a wildfire seen from an amphibious aircraft

Environment

Russia has declared a state of emergency over Siberian wildfires

News

Earth

The Amazon rainforest depends on fires in Africa for a vital nutrient

News

koala in hospital

Life

Koalas burned in wildfires can now be saved but the treatment is gross

With wildfires on the rise, endangered koalas are more threatened than ever, but a new treatment for burned animals offers a ray of hope. We go inside the world's only koala hospital

Features

Environment

The UK has already had more wildfires in 2019 than any year on record

News

Life

The most eye-catching science and tech news stories of 2018

News

Environment

California's dry summer set the stage for the Camp Fire

News

Earth

Fire crews prepare 'heavy attack' on massive moorland wildfire

News