Category: Drought & Fires

Fire in the Amazon rainforest

Video Report: Fires rage in parts of Brazil's Amazon rainforest. Deborah Lutterbeck reports. (more…)

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Wildfires rage in Portugal

Over Fifty fires are reportedly burning in parts of the country. Portuguese firefighters are continuing to battle dozens of forest

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Bread prices soar in Russia

The price of Russian bread is rising sharply in Moscow as repercussions from the country's months-long record drought start

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Chernobyl Forests are on fire

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Fires have scorched forests contaminated with radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a Russian forestry official

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Climate threatens Asian rice production

Even modest rises in global temperatures will drive down rice production in Asia, the world's biggest grower of the

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Moscow deaths double amid heatwave, forest fire smog to 700 people a day

MOSCOW -- Deaths in Moscow have doubled and are now averaging 700 people a day amid a sweltering heat

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Toxic smog blankets Moscow as fires rage

Wearing sanitary masks or clutching wet rags to their faces, residents of Moscow struggled round the city as the

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Russia: Fires head for Chernobyl

Fires that are sweeping across Russia threaten to re-release nuclear contamination from the Chernobyl disaster into the air, but

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Wheat prices reach 22 month high

Video Report: Wheat prices have hit a 22-month high after a severe drought and ensuing wildfires in Russia devastated

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Australia agriculture faces climate upheaval: scientist

Land available for agriculture in Australia, one of the world's largest food exporters, is in danger of shrinking because

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