Firefighters battle forest fires in northern and southwest Finland
Fire officials have continued to combat forest fires for a third day in Pyhäranta, southwest Finland. Although subsiding winds helped
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Firefighters overwhelmed as wildfires spread across central Sweden
Sweden’s worst forest fire season in modern times is putting emergency services through their toughest days, and currently all they
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Weekend thundershowers to bring much-needed rain in Finland
A low pressure front will arrive over Finland this weekend, bringing stormy weather and rain. Thursday will be warm and
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Hundreds flee historic wildfires, Sweden’s PM says better preparedness needed
Hundreds of people have been forced to abandon their homes as forest fires are now reaching historic sizes. Jämtland County,
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Swedish mountains draw tourists looking to avoid wildfire smoke
Maria Persson, who runs the Helags mountain station in Jämtland (central Sweden), tells Radio Sweden that she is seeing more
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Italian water bombers assisting Sweden in fight against spreading wildfires
Italian water bombing planes arrived on Wednesday, as emergency services are working nonstop to try to control the fires, with
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Sweden calls for volunteers to help fight raging wildfires
At least eighty fires are burning around the country at present, and many are still not under control. According to
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Finnish forest fire sparked by sunbeam through bottle in bone-dry weather
The recent weeks of dry, sunny weather have caused brush and forest fires to spark across Finland. On Tuesday fire
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Northern Finland to cool down over the weekend
Cooler air is streaming into Finland from the north on Wednesday and Thursday. Conditions will be windy especially up north,
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Heatwave sparks fears of wildfires in large parts of Sweden
It’s only mid-May but the mini heatwave has left large areas of Sweden bone-dry, leading to firefighters issuing a ban on public fires
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Warming, fires, warming, fires: How tundra wildfires could create an unstoppable cycle
When lightning sparked a big fire in the tundra of Alaska’s Arctic North Slope nine years ago, scientists were stunned. The
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Swedish Biologists: “Turn forest fire area into nature reserve”
After Sweden’s worst forest fire in modern times, a group of Sweden’s leading biologists and ecologists say something positive could
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Fires burn near Wrigley in Canada’s Northwest Territories
The voluntary evacuation order is still in place for people in the community of Wrigley in Canada’s Northwest Territories. A
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