With record heat and drought, Spain’s Catalonia faces perfect wildfire conditions

Surveying the hills covered with near bone-dry pines stretching to the Pyrenees in the distance, Asier Larrañaga has reason to be on guard. This part of northeast Spain is, like large swaths of the Mediterranean country, braced for wildfires due to the lethal combination of a prolonged drought, record-high temperatures and increasingly dense woods unable to adapt to a fast-changing climate.

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Fast-spreading wildfire forces evacuation in U.S. Texas

A fast-spreading wildfire near Huntsville, east Texas, triggered evacuation and a highway closure on Friday night.

Large tundra wildfire in southwest Alaska threatens villages

The largest documented wildfire burning through tundra in southwest Alaska was within miles of two Alaska Native villages

Officials says southern Spain wildfire stabilized

As Spain braces for soaring temperatures this weekend, officials said Friday a wildfire in the south Spain that forced the evacuation of 2,000 people

Officials says southern Spain wildfire stabilized

As Spain braces for soaring temperatures this weekend, officials said Friday a wildfire in the south Spain that forced the evacuation of 2,000 people

5,000 under evacuation orders as New Mexico wildfire rages

Douglas Siddens’ mother was among those who made it out with just the clothes on her back when a deadly, wind-fueled wildfire ripped through a mountain community in southern New Mexico.

Biden to survey wildfire damage

President Joe Biden will promote his administration’s use of the Defense Production Act to aid in wildfire preparedness during a western swing in which he’ll survey wildfire damage in Idaho and California.

Bear cub loses mom to California wildfire

Firefighters are keeping an eye on a lone, emaciated bear cub that may have lost its mother to the country’s largest wildfire now burning in Northern California.

Progress made but hot weather could spur California wildfire

California’s largest single wildfire in recorded history kept pushing through forestlands.

Californians hit hard hard with weekend of wildfire fears

Dixie Fire grew to become the largest single wildfire in state history.

Town burns to ashes in raging Northern California wildfire

Northern California's largest current wildfire destroys a beautiful town