The European Union has seen more than one million hectares scorched by wildfires for the first time in 2025 since records ...

Thousands of firefighters aided by soldiers and water-bombing aircraft fought fires tearing through parched woodland that ...

A heatwave is continuing to affect the Iberian Peninsula. Thousands of firefighters have been deployed to battle ongoing ...

Nearly 1,000 firefighters remained mobilised Monday in central Portugal to prevent flare-ups of what authorities said was the ...

The area burned this year has exceeded the 1 million hectare mark for the first time since records started in 2006.

The summer of 2025 has been marked by an alarming rise in wildfires across the Iberian Peninsula, particularly affecting Spain and Portugal. As heatwaves engulfed the region, wildland fires surged, ...

This year is turning into one of the worst fire seasons in recent memory in Europe. Firefighters are struggling to contain ...

France sent two teams of 100 firefighters, who were “currently arriving,” Virginia Barcones Sanz, the director general of ...

Wildfires continue to devastate Portugal and Spain, with nearly 300,000 hectares burned in Portugal and over 400,000 in Spain ...

Europe has been warming twice as fast as the global average since the 1980s, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change ...

A 3km firebreak has been restored in Valencia to help stop the spread of wildfires. WWF is working on this challenge across the Iberian Peninsula, including in Cortes de Pallás in Valencia province, ...

Forest fires are not a new threat to the Iberian Peninsula, which is on constant alert despite control measures. By way of example Portugal recorded the highest rates of burnt areas since 1980 due ...