The world's biggest trees were being wrapped in fire-proof blankets Thursday in an effort to protect them from huge blazes tearing through the drought-stricken western United States.



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Giant sequoias wrapped in foil to protect from US forest fires

CALGARY - Redwood Meadows and Rocky View County firefighters responded after fire broke out Thursday morning at a home near Bragg Creek.


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'A total loss': Fire crews battle blaze at home near Bragg Creek

Two wildfires sparked by lightning strikes last week grew roughly five times in size Tuesday, with blazes towering across more than 5,000 acres in California as officials worry of threats to Sequoia National Park.

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Fire threatening Sequoia National Park grows five times in size, forcing evacuations

Recent devastating wildfires in Australia added vast amounts of carbon dioxide to the air and triggered blooms of marine algae in the Southern Ocean.

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Australian fires in 2019–2020 had even more global reach than previously thought

The U.N. rights chief on Monday said that the "triple planetary crises" of climate change, pollution and nature loss, represented the single biggest threat to human rights globally. "As these environmental threats intensify, they will constitute the single greatest challenge to human rights of our era," said Michelle Bachelet at the opening of the human rights council,

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Environmental threats are biggest challenge to human rights: U.N.

Fire in Andalucía region rages for sixth day having already forced evacuation of thousands of people

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Spain wildfire: almost 1,000 emergency workers fighting blaze

Soldiers are being deployed in southeastern Spain to join the battle against a major wildfire that is burning for a fourth day

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More evacuated as Spain deploys military against wildfire

CASTIAC, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire near Castaic Saturday has led to the closure of a part of a major freeway in Southern California, officials told local media. The fire, known as the Route Fire, reached 392 acres, or a little more than half a square mile, as of 6:28 p.m.

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